Because of excessive shipping delays, increased risk of losing items in the mail, and staffing shortages due to vacation schedules for staff and students, most lending libraries will NOT fill interlibrary loan requests from mid-December through the first week or two of January. Also, out of consideration for the RU community, the ILL staff in McConnell Library schedule their vacations for this time of year. Therefore, we will suspend interlibrary borrowing during the holiday season from Dec 15-Jan 10.
Please continue to submit your requests to ILLiad during the Christmas break, but know that we will not begin processing them until January 10, 2008. During this “closed” period, there may be someone present in the office to give assistance, but generally no items will be ordered in that time period.
Questions or concerns may be submitted to our email address: ill@radford.edu