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U. of I. Library online users can access booksellers to buy books
Andrea
Lynn, Humanities Editor
217-333-2177; andreal@uiuc.edu
8/1/2006
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. —
The Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has added
a new service.
The largest public university collection in the world, holding nearly
24 million items, now offers its users a “Buy a Book Service.”
Linked to the library’s Web site, the book-purchase service gives
users “easy and quick access to local and online booksellers,”
said Lynn Wiley, head of acquisitions at the University Library, so
that when a title is not available through the University Library’s
online catalog, or when a library user prefers to own a book, the option
to purchase is only a couple of clicks away.
A small percentage of purchases from select vendors “will help
the library add more books to its collection,” Wiley said. More
information about the service is available at www.library.uiuc.edu/services/bookreferral.htm or by contacting Wiley at 217-244-1846 or lnwiley@uiuc.edu.
The University Library’s Web online catalog receives some 235,000
visits a day. The physical collections are held in 38 separate departmental
libraries.
