Happy Holidays!

The ILL department will be closed December 22nd through Janurary 2.

We will close at 5 p.m. Friday, December 22 and reopen Wednesday at 8 a.m. Janurary 3rd. 2007.

A few changes will begin to take place in the first few months of 2007 . Your items will be at the circualtion desk for pick-up.

We will begin implementation of Illiad for our lending of materials to other libraries.

Thank you for your patronage in 2006. We look forward to serving you in the New Year.

Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!!!!!!!!

ILL Changes in the New Year

Beginning with the Spring 2007 semester, Interlibrary Loan materials will be available for pickup at the main Circulation Desk instead of the ILL office. The main circulation desk is located on the 2nd floor of Malpass Library. Your materials will now be available any time the library is open, and you will not have to call to make after hours pickup arrangements. We hope this change will make ILL service more convenient to all our patrons.

When this change occurs, ILL office hours will change to 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM, Monday through Friday.

We also invite you to stop by Malpass Library Atrium on Sunday, December 10 beginning at 8:00 PM for cookies. This is the library staff's way of thanking you for your patronage and to wish all students good luck on their finals.

Have a safe and happy winter break and we will see you next semester!

Sneek peek at ILLiad for ILL customers

Hi, everyone, I thought you might want to get an idea of what ILLiad will do for you. This PDF customer user's guide will give you a preview of ILLiad. It takes you through creating an account and some of the features available in ILLiad accounts.

WIU ILL may not put all of the features in this guide out to patrons such as account billing, but this will give you a good idea of how you can manage your photocopy and other requests not availabe on I-Share.

You will still have to login to your "My Account" for items requestws on I-Share.

Go to this PDF to see some of the features for you! Sneak Preview

ILLiad is sent for spring or summer roll-out.

ILLiad update & Web site

Hello, sorry it been a bit of time here folks.

The new improved ILL Web site is up and running. Let us know what you think.

ILLiad update

Date Set for Spring or Summer roll out! Your ILL staff is in training for the new software which will help us manage your WORLDCAT (non-I-Share) requests. ILLiad will allow you to check the status of photocopy and other loans not ordered via I-Share.

It's alive @ the Interlibrary Loan Corner

In celebration of October - Stop by the ILL corner an get your free, "It's alive" bookmark.

Watch out for the colorful poster, you never know what green monster lurks behind the window.

Updates and policy change

ILL has discontinued its 5 per day request limit policy.
You brought this concern to us in our spring survey (March 2006). We have heard you and the policy has been revoked effective immediately.

ILLIAD is coming....yes it is still on the way. Right now the ILL staff is waiting for training. The redesigned Web site is close to going into production. Happy Harvest!

Requests this week

Hello! As of today we have had 250 requests from WIU patrons and will probably see 350 total by Friday September 22nd. I am happy to report that the ILL staff has kept up the pace and presently has everything ordered to date. If there was a problem with your request you will receive the request back soon.

Last week we had 450 requests from WIU customers and had everything ordered by Thursday.

ILL, ILLiad, and Pirates

Hello, ILL users! This past week we have been busy processing 300 requests received on Monday, September 11, from you. I am happy to report we are going into the weekend with all requests on order.

Hang in there. ILLIAD is coming and you may see the first signs of it in December or later.

Did you know Tuesday, September 19, 2006 is International Talk like a pirate day? The ILL department will be celebrating the 19th with pirate decorations and perhaps a hearty 'arrgghh'. Stop by and see us- you don't know what you might see or hear! We promise not to make anyone walk the plank.