Recent update of E-ZBorrow links ebooks back to The CAT

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.

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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.

IA-2Before 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.
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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.