Comprehensive Application Guidelines for The North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources' (NCC) 2007-08 Multi-Volume Sets (MVS) Project Grants

Prescreening Deadline: November 5, 2007

MVS now permits the charging of ILL fees in accordance with the loan policies of individual holding institutions. Institutions must continue to freely circulate all volumes supported by MVS through interlibrary loan, however the charging of regular ILL fees is now permitted.
Second-hand titles may now be proposed for MVS funding assuming the following provisions: a) the vendor of those titles promises to hold them pending the MVS grant decision, made by March 1st each year; b) the vendor provides written assurance that the condition of the proposed volumes is at a level that will permit the materials to freely circulate through ILL in accordance with MVS policies; and c) the applying institution provides a copy of the vendor's written statement regarding the above as part of their application for each second-hand set being proposed to MVS.