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in Interlibrary Loan and LINK+ Delivery Services- This spring, Interlibrary
Loan as well as LINK+ operations are continuing to make
improvements in the delivery of materials to faculty and staff requestors.
Beginning on January 29, all items are delivered directly to either
campus mailboxes or computer desktops. This service is provided on a daily
basis and applies to books, articles, and all other materials.
Delivery
to department offices- BOOKS AND OTHER BORROWED MATERIALS will
be delivered by Library staff to department offices, where faculty and
staff may pick them up from their department mail boxes. This service
includes books borrowed through the LINK+ system. Faculty and staff
will continue to be responsible for returning the materials to the Pollak
Library. Returns should be taken to the Circulation
Counter (not to book drops). PAPER COPIES (FAXES) OF PERIODICAL
ARTICLES will be delivered to department offices in the same manner as
books.
Electronic
delivery to computer desktops- At present, about 50% of the journal
articles we borrow are being sent to us electronically, with that
percentage steadily increasing. PERIODICAL ARTICLES RECEIVED
ELECTRONICALLY will now be made available to faculty and staff requestors
via an individually designated web page; in these cases, an automatic
e-mail notification will be sent to the requestor, including a direct “hot”
link to the URL on the web where the article may be retrieved for use.
For faculty and staff,
these new services improve both the convenience and speed of access to
resources not available in the Pollak Library’s collections. We are
currently exploring the possibility of extending similar services to
students and, while the logistics are considerably more complicated, we
hope to introduce improvements in the near future. Of particular concern
is delivery of materials to students engaged in distance learning at sites
other than the main Fullerton campus.
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