[ILL-L] Important Changes at MIUMIC/HJ8

[RIIN GILL]

Apologies for cross-posting.  This needs to reach as wide an audience as 
possible.  Please forward to anyone who needs this information who isn't 
on this list.

Taubman Medical Library's Interlibrary Loan department (TML) and Hatcher 
Graduate Library's Interlibrary Loan at the University of Michigan have 
agreed to combine their interlibrary loan operations into one unit. 
Hatcher will manage and operate this unit starting April 7 and assume 
responsibility for all MIUMIC transactions.

MIUMIC will be a non-supplier for Monday and Tuesday, 4/6 and 4/7.

TML staff will receipt lending requests on Friday 4/3 and process those 
requests.  We will have those all updated in Docline before the end of 
Tuesday.  Hatcher will begin receipting lending requests on Wednesday.

We will continue to process any borrowing requests we receive from our 
patrons through a cutoff point on Monday, and should have all of these 
requests entered into Docline by the end of Monday night.  We will 
continue to process borrowing in OCLC until we are finished with all of 
the requests we have.

Later in the month we will send out invoices for 1/1/09-4/7/09.

During this transition period, we ask for your patience and for your 
careful attention.  Due to some requests having been in the system for 
longer than others, you may possibly receive more than one request from 
MIUMIC on the same day, some sent from TML and some from Hatcher.  Please 
be careful to send the book or article to the requested address on the 
request and not rely on an address book.  TML will still be processing 
incoming borrowing materials for requests we initiated.

Also, in upcoming months please be careful to send checks to the address 
on the invoice, and invoices to the billing address on the request.  We 
will be responsible for all activity initiated through 4/7/09 or through 
HJ8.  Any activity initiated 4/8/09 or after, or through EYM, will be the 
responsibility of Hatcher.

Beginning some time next week, my new phone number will be 734-763-6407.

You will be able to reach the new MIUMIC contact at Hatcher for borrowing 
and lending at 734-764-8584.

All of us here in Taubman ILL will still have jobs here in the library, 
but in other departments.  It will definitely be strange not doing ILL 
anymore.  I've been doing it for the past 11 years.  It's been a lot of 
fun, and we'll miss the feeling of camaradarie between institutions. We'll 
miss being able to help you out, and we're thankful to all of you for 
being able to help our patrons, and for just being such nice people.

Feel free to ask questions.  There's bound to be something I haven't 
thought of, as we've just never done this sort of thing before.

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Riin Gill
Interlibrary Loan                              734-615-6168
Taubman Medical Library                    fax 734-763-1473
University of Michigan
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