<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>All,<br></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>The governors of Pennsylvania and Ohio have issued orders for "non-essential" businesses to close. Since Brodart (Pennsylvania) and Midwest Tape (Ohio) each have a single location/warehouse, the result is that neither will be shipping product for the time being. As libraries in Michigan are closed this is not a bad thing, anyway.<br></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Baker and Taylor and Ingram have multiple warehouses so as far as I am aware, it is business as usual for both of them.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>The digital products for these and other vendors, Brodart being the exception since they don't have a digital product, remain open for business. And I suspect they are doing very good business.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I can tell you that last week at TLN, and yesterday and today from our dining room table, I have processed dozens of "can we start our new RBdigital service(s) on April 1 instead of May 1?" requests from libraries. It is good to see such dedication to patron service out there! And yes, I can and will continue to process your requests for an early start to same.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Take care,<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Jim F.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__SIG_PRE__">Jim Flury<br>Technical Services Manager<br>The Library Network<br>41365 Vincenti Court<br>Novi, MI 48375<br>248-536-3100, ext 133<br>Fax 248-536-3098<br>jflury@tln.lib.mi.us</div></div></body></html>