On June 1 2010, Musselman Library will end its participation in the EZ Borrow loan service. PALCI (Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc.), the consortium that operates EZ Borrow, is changing its operating platform and the cost of the new system would more than double our expense for participating.
We currently run the EZ Borrow system in parallel with interlibrary loan. In short, we have two methods for obtaining books from other institutions at present. While we recognize that E-Z Borrow has been beneficial to many of you, we must cut costs and believe that having one streamlined interlibrary loan system for all book and article requests will provide better service and at the same time allow us to realize important savings.
We ask for your assistance by returning any EZ Borrow books by June 1. EZ books have a blue paper band. We cannot renew any EZ books you have checked out. While we are dropping our EZ Borrow contract, we are not leaving the PALCI consortium. We remain committed to resource sharing with other academic libraries in Pennsylvania and will continue to participate in other consortium initiatives that save the College money.
If you have any questions please call Mary Evangeliste at 337-7011. Thank you.
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