Faculty, students praise launch of Scan & Deliver
Faculty and Ph.D. students from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Divinity have emailed the Library with praise and appreciation for the University-wide Scan & Deliver pilot program since its launch was announced on January 18.
“Scan & Deliver is not only a most welcome service but a delightfully witty name for it,” wrote Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor, Divinity School. “Many thanks for both!”
Associate Professor Amy Dru Stanley of the History Department concurred: “This is a wonderful provision.”
Graduate students conducting research outside of Hyde Park declared the service invaluable. “I can’t tell you how much Scan & Deliver has revolutionized my work!” wrote Patrick Kelly, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History. “It honestly has allowed me to make enormous progress while in the field. I’ve been able to write two chapters that would have been impossible to construct in the absence of this service.”
“Scan and Deliver is the most amazing innovation of the Library ever,” James Jacobson-Maisels, a graduate student in the Committee on Jewish Studies wrote to Maroon Opinions. “I am a doctoral student doing research abroad and it has radically improved my ability to get access to the secondary literature I need.” Harry Bastermajian, a Ph.D. candidate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations also expressed his appreciation.
In the first month of the program, the Library received 2,581 requests from the University community, with the majority coming from faculty and graduate students.
While in most cases, requests are fulfilled in four business days, in some instances scans cannot be provided from the Library’s print collections. The primary reasons for cancelled requests have been that:
- items were already available online, in which case requestors are notified of the location of the resource,
- the request exceeds the limits for copying allowed by copyright guidelines, or
- materials are on course reserve, in which case, Library users are directed to access the portions that copyright guidelines have already allowed to be scanned and made available through the reserve system (if they are enrolled in the class it was reserved for) or to consult the print copies on reserve.
To learn more, visit the Scan & Deliver Library Guide.
