Faculty On-Site Borrowing at E-ZBorrow Libraries

Onsite Faculty Borrowing
PALCI* (E-ZBorrow) Libraries

A number of PALCI (E-ZBorrow) libraries have agreed to extend free reciprocal borrowing privileges (onsite) to each other's faculty so they may have direct, personal access to materials that are not available at the home institution.

As a full-time faculty member at Mount Aloysius College, a PALCI member, you are eligible to borrow materials on-site from the participating libraries. To borrow materials from these libraries you must:

Get an authorization form signed by the circulation department at your home institution's library. This form can be mailed to you if you prefer. Call (814) 886-6445 or email askalibrarian@mtaloy.edu.  Indicate that you would like a signed PALCI Faculty On-site Borrowing Authorization Form mailed to you and provide your preferred address. 

Take the completed and signed authorization form to the participating library.

The library will establish a record for you in their system that will allow you to check items out from their library. Additional information may be requested to complete the registration process.

You will be responsible for returning the material either to the library from which it was borrowed or bringing it to the circulation desk of Mount Aloysius College where the staff will return it through E-ZBorrow on your behalf.

Each participating library sets their own policies. Upon request, the lending libraries should supply you with the full details of their policies when you borrow materials from them. For a list of participating libraries and their general policies, visit the PALCI website >Services >Faculty Borrowing. 

You will be financially responsible for the items you borrow as well as for any overdue fines that are charged by the lending library.

* Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc.