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Minitex News articles tagged with "Interlibrary Loan" (97):

A "Warm" Winter Update From Our On-site Staff

Staff have been working on-site since the summer months. Philip Sites gives an update for how it's been both for RPA (Referral Processing Area) staff and those doing on-campus retrieval and scanning.

Updated Policy for Lost/Damaged Billing in MNLINK Region

Minnesota public libraries participating with MNLINK have agreed to an updated best practices policy related to billing for overdue and damaged materials.

Appeal to lenders: Extending due dates

We are currently experiencing slower turnaround times due to Covid-19 impacts and are appealing to lenders to extend due dates.

IDS interlibrary loan conference sessions available online

Recordings of sessions from the July 2020 IDS Conference are available online.

Resource Sharing service update!

Several Minitex libraries, including the University of Minnesota Twin Cities will resume processing requests for loans during the week of August 10, 2020.

Statewide Delivery and Resource Sharing Meeting Aug 5

The Minitex Delivery and Resource Sharing Units will be hosting a statewide conversation on the state of Minitex Delivery and Resource Sharing on Wednesday, Aug 5 at 11 AM. Minitex staff will discuss the process of restarting the statewide delivery service and some of the challenges we’ve faced in the process. We will also share an update on the status of MNLINK and referrals, as well as an approximate timeline for filling requests from the University of Minnesota collections. The rest of the meeting will be Q&A.

Resource Sharing to resume scanning from U of MN Twin Cities campus libraries

Scanning of articles and chapters from University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus library collections will resume on July 27, 2020.

Minitex restarting Interlibrary Loan

The Minitex delivery network will be available for direct interlibrary loan requests on Monday, July 20.

Interlibrary loan COVID-19 changes

In Minnesota, we are working remotely and there have been enormous changes to our workflow in the last several weeks. In some cases, the interlibrary loan systems we use may be able to help us streamline our new processes. Here is some information about how various systems are handling specific details in our work.

Canceled! Annual Minitex ILL Conference

Due to the current Coronavirus concerns, the Annual Minitex ILL Conference will be canceled. There is currently no plans to hold this online, but stay tuned for more information on Resource Sharing training in the future.