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Try: http://www.indiana.edu/~libopac/iucathelp/request_context.html

The IUCAT’s meow—IUCAT has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with Halloween.

But now that we’ve got your attention: our colleague Eric Bartheld tells us that IU Libraries has launched a new online service that enables request for delivery of university-owned book to any campus library, regardless of the book’s location within Indiana University. You can make the request simply by clicking a button when reviewing the book’s record in IUCAT, the libraries’ online catalog. For example: You may request that a book from IUB be delivered to IU Kokomo, a transfer formerly accomplished through interlibrary loan. Or, in Bloomington, you may request that a book from the Main Library be delivered to the School of Education Library. The new service applies only to books in the general circulating collection that are not checked out to another user.

A few tips for this do-it-yourself free service.

• LOG IN to IUCAT. Run your searches against ALL rather than an individual library or group. This gives a better idea of what material is available for delivery.

• Click on the button for the “Request Delivery” option and to select a pick-up library from the dropdown menu.

• LOG OUT. Most material will be delivered within four to seven working days. An E-mail will be sent when the material has arrived.