Continued Access to Library Material During COVID-19 Pandemic

When the MSU Libraries experienced COVID-19 related closures, Interlibrary Services (ILS) expanded on its current services to provide increased scanning of documents, and home delivery to all our MSU patrons, increasing book shipments to over 200 books per week. Circulation has provided a paging service with at the door pick up for students who live on campus and cannot receive items via campus mail. ILS staff worked with collections librarians to fulfill ILL requests by leveraging its existing purchase-on-demand service to buy books in lieu of borrowing along. These services along with guiding patrons to the many other emergency resources the library has implemented, has allowed the MSU Libraries to continue to serve our patrons to the best of our abilities during these difficult times.