ILL to Participate in Pilot Project

The Ellis Library Interlibrary Loan Unit will be a full participant, both borrowing and lending,  in Relais D2D (Discovery to Delivery) as a part of a pilot project with several other of the Greater Western Library Alliance Libraries. It is similar to the way we borrow and lend MOBIUS books here in Missouri in the unmediated requesting process.  Requests are sent only to a library that has an available copy showing in their catalog, therefore reducing turnaround time. Load balancing is used when building a routing list and the request is sent to the first library on the routing list without staff mediation. The “go live” date will be from mid-July through the first part of August so that the service will be up and running when the Fall semester begins. The profiling is completed but there is some behind-the-scenes work that is still being completed. The name of the new service will likely be BorrowITNow and we will  probably have a tab on the ILL @MU page. When we are ready to go live and have everything in place for our MU patrons, we will let everyone know.

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