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Eli Express, Yale’s intra-library delivery service, was launched in September of 1994 and was conceived of as a means of providing patrons with an extra measure of convenience by allowing them to page, pickup and return books belonging to many of the Yale libraries at other designated units within the library system.  From its very inception, Eli Express proved to be a very popular enhancement to patron services.   The number of volumes transported by Eli Express rapidly grew over its first several years of operation, finally topping 200K items in 2003.

Non-routine shipments within SML are those shipments which by the nature of their physical size, condition, or quantity preclude library staff from depositing them in the central collection box provided for that purpose.

With the departure of LCS staff from the SML Shipping Room, it is imperative that we do all we can to insure incoming materials get directly into the hands of recipients rather than having them dropped in a central space in Sterling where no one will be available to receive, sort, and/or deliver them.  With this goal in mind, when placing orders or arranging for materials to be delivered to Sterling, staff should adopt one of four following approaches: