Alert: Summit is Changing

The Orbis Cascade Alliance, the consortium of libraries that participate in and are responsible for the Summit shared catalog, is changing software vendors. As a result there will be a number of modifications to Summit.

Updates

December 31 - You cannot reliably order single volumes of multi-volume sets. Request through ILL.
December 2 - You can now immediately access your Summit requests made on or after December 1 from the Summit catalog. Click on "My Summit Account" in the upper right corner.

What does the change mean for UW borrowers?

Requesting of Summit material will continue during the change to the new system. Beginning November 21 material checked out in the current system will have a progressively shorter loan period or renewal as all Summit material must be returned by December 12.
Requesting in the new system has started. Material checked out in the new system will have a 6 week loan period with no renewals. Items that have been requested will not show in your UW library account for 2-4 days.
The ability for UW borrowers to visit other libraries and check out materials will continue, though they will need to verify their status at the remote library by logging into their UW library account. Once the UW borrower is "adopted" in this manner by the remote library they can request that books from other libraries be delivered to that library.

Why are the changes being made now?

Our contract with our current software vendor expires at the end of December. We know this is not an ideal time to implement new software but it was not feasible to continue with the current vendor through the spring.

Questions?

Additional information will be made available as we near the change to the new system and are able to provide details. General information is available at the main Summit site.

Questions can be sent to the Libraries AskUs service.