Library and Archives Canada (LAC) will cease its interlibrary loan (ILL) service as of December 2012. Queen’s will no longer be able to borrow material held at LAC which includes newspapers and archival material on microfilm and Canadian university theses.

Users of LAC’s current services should note the following dates:

November 16, 2012: End of renewals. All items loaned after this date will be non-renewable and need to be returned to Interlibrary Loans.

December 11, 2012: End of loan requests, location searches, and ILL-related photocopying services.

The RACER Interlibrary Loan system will be changed slightly on December 8, 2008 so that, on login, you will be able to start from a screen which offers clearer options for searching by a known author or title — a logical approach to making an interlibrary loan request.

Reminder:  On RACER, it is not mandatory that you use the search screen in order to place a request!  Instead:

• If you already have the citation information in hand for the article or chapter or book which you need to order, just click on the “Blank Request Form” link on the left navigation column of the RACER screen, once you have logged in, as follows:

Access to RACER will not be available from 5 pm on Friday, 22 August 2008 to 9 am on Monday, 25 August 2008, to enable a major system software upgrade. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

The maintenance window for the RACER Interlibrary Loan System, formerly scheduled for Saturday April 12th, has been postponed to Thursday April 17, 2008 beginning at 5 PM and ending at 2 AM on Friday, April 18.

During that time, RACER will be unavailable for use in order for the database to be migrated to a new server. These changes are not directly related to the RACER software itself, and as such there will be no changes to the look or functionality of RACER once the server migration has been completed.

We regret this interruption in our interlibrary loan service and thank RACER users for their patience during this necessary system upgrade.

Please be advised that a maintenance window for the RACER Interlibrary Loan server has been scheduled for this Friday, July 6 from 8 PM until 8 AM Saturday, July 7, 2007.

During that time, RACER will be unavailable for use in order for staff to apply operating system software patches/service packs, as well as conduct general database/system maintenance.