Interlibrary Loan

Brief OpenAthens outage

By November 16th 2021

OpenAthens authentication went down briefly this afternoon (Tuesday, November 15, 2021). OpenAthens is the system that allows Allegheny students and faculty access to most of our databases and our interlibrary loan system, EZBorrow. When users tried to log into anything using OpenAthens, they were seeing a 404 error. The problem was quickly resolved. If you encounter issues accessing any of our databases or EZBorrow, please try clearing your browser history and trying again. If that does not resolve the problem, please open a Web Help Desk ticket so LITS can help troubleshoot.

E-ZBorrow Interlibrary Loan Service Suspended

By March 19th 2020

At this time, all E–ZBorrow services are suspended at Allegheny College.  Please contact the InfoDesk with any questions.

Statement from PALCI Member Support:

“After careful consideration, and after discussing the situation with the PALCI Board and with members of our Deans and Directors community, the PALCI Board voted to temporarily suspend all E–ZBorrow borrowing and lending services.

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We appreciate everyone working together to sustain and support the service as long as we did during this uncertain time. We will continue to monitor the situation as it progresses, and when it is safe and practical to reactive the service, we will be in communication with libraries about turning them back on for borrowing and lending in a way that mindful of the extra work that may be taking place as libraries transition back to offering full services again.”