From: Worthington, Elaine on behalf of Sheerer, Marilyn

Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 11:46 AM

To: ECU Official

Subject: Joyner Library Interlibrary Loan Services

Dear Members of the ECU Community,

We want to reassure you that Joyner Library Interlibrary Loan services are still available to ECU students, faculty, and staff.  While the Emergency Budget Management Restrictions are in place, however, we can only borrow material from libraries that do not charge fees.  In addition, we have had to suspend interlibrary loans that require copyright royalty payments.  But be assured, ILL activity is continuing:  there are nearly 3,500 free lending libraries in our automated system, including a consortium that supplied 60% of our requests last year.  We continue to search for more free lending libraries and we are investigating an interlibrary loan pay per request option that would allow the person making the request to pay for material not available at free lending libraries.  If you have any questions about ILL services, please contact William Gee, Head of Interlibrary Loan Services (252-328-2268; geec@ecu.edu).  For questions about other library services and resources, please contact me or the Dean of Academic Library and Learning Resources, Dr. Larry Boyer (252-328-6514; boyerl@ecu.edu).  We look forward to working with you to continue to provide the best services possible during these challenging times.

Best regards,

Jan

Jan Lewis

Associate Director

Joyner Library

East Carolina University

Greenville, NC 27858-4353

email: lewisja@ecu.edu

phone: 252.328.2267

fax: 252.328.6892