Wednesday, February 06, 2008

E-ZBorrow Service Restored


Dear Mount Aloysius Students/Staff/Faculty:

We are pleased to announce that access to E-ZBorrow is once again available to the Mount Aloysius College community. This service can be accessed from links on both the main Library web page and from Mountlink, the online catalog.

E-ZBorrow does not replace traditional Interlibrary Loan (ILL) but complements it. We ask that you request book loans through E-ZBorrow before using ILL. Service through E-ZBorrow is generally faster than that provided through ILL.

Please note: E-ZBorrow is for books only. Requests for periodical articles must still be submitted through Interlibrary Loan. More detailed information about both E-ZBorrow and ILL is available at http://library.mtaloy.edu/services.

E-ZBorrow services are a feature of Mount Aloysius College’s membership in the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI), an organization of over 70 academic libraries in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and West Virginia. Member libraries include major research institutions (Penn State, Pitt, U. of Penn, U. of West Virginia, Rutgers) and a variety of smaller liberal arts colleges that includes Duquesne, Carnegie Mellon, Mercyhurst, Dickinson and Messiah College. A complete list of member institutions can be viewed at the PALCI website at http://palci.org/.

Please contact the Reference Librarians, Sara Loree, Shamim Rajpar or Rob Stere, if you would like a demonstration or if you have any questions. Questions can also be answered through our email reference service, askalibrarian@mtaloy.edu.