By Barbara Coopey, assistant head, Access Services
The recent E-ZBorrow upgrade brought an enhancement to E-ZBorrow searching. Now users have immediate access to Penn State ebooks from E-ZBorrow (and Uborrow as well).
Ebooks are identified in E-ZBorrow by an “e” in the results list.
With the new version, when a user selects the ebook record and Penn State is listed as owning the book, a new option appears. There is a link, “View in the PSU Catalog” that takes the user to The CAT record which then has the link to the ebook.
Before the upgrade, the user would have been presented with a “Request” link to ILLiad. Users will still see the request link if E-ZBorrow does not show that Penn State Libraries has the ebook.
However, not all of Penn State ebooks will be in E-ZBorrow since E-ZBorrow is pulling holdings from The CAT. E-ZBorrow does not interface with LionSearch where many of our ebooks are located.
Both E-ZBorrow and Uborrow are located on the Interlibrary Loan page at http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/ill.html.