{"id":70824,"date":"2021-03-03T09:02:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T14:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=70824"},"modified":"2021-03-03T15:51:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T20:51:56","slug":"brocks-interlibrary-loan-service-to-resume-march-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/03\/brocks-interlibrary-loan-service-to-resume-march-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock\u2019s interlibrary loan service to resume March 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock Library\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/library\/use\/interlibrary-loan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interlibrary loan service<\/a> for physical books returns Monday, March 8 as the University moves into <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/03\/brock-moving-into-stage-2-red-control\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stage 2 (Red\/Control)<\/a> of its own COVID-19 response framework.<\/p>\n<p>Brock is joining a growing number of Ontario universities restarting\u00a0this shared, co-ordinated service.\u00a0This expands on the\u00a0interlibrary loan service for electronic materials, which\u00a0has continued throughout the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>While the critical research support service is resuming, the realities of COVID-19 mean that users may see unfulfilled or cancelled print requests due to library\u00a0location\u00a0closures and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/library\/use\/library-resources-services-amid-covid-19\/#1594241657150-05224e05-585c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">restrictions on loaning physical copies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Turnaround times will also be longer due to delays with couriers and Canada Post, quarantine requirements for materials and limited staff on site across university partners to manage mail routes and lending.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, print interlibrary loans will be most useful for people engaged in long-term research, rather than\u00a0those with\u00a0an\u00a0immediate need for materials.<\/p>\n<p>Brock Library continues to support access to collections and resources through a variety of means including expanded access to digital collections (including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hathitrust.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HathiTrust<\/a>)\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/library\/request-scan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scanning<\/a>\u00a0of local print collections.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest on how health and government guidelines affect Brock University Library services and access,\u00a0visit\u00a0the Library\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/library\/use\/library-resources-services-amid-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 updates page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock Library\u2019s interlibrary loan service for physical books returns Monday, March 8 as the University moves into Stage 2 (Red\/Control) of its own COVID-19 response framework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[2701,10047,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70824"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70830,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70824\/revisions\/70830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}