diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 1ce590d4..9ed0f758 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Package: packrat
 Type: Package
 Title: A Dependency Management System for Projects and their R Package
     Dependencies
-Version: 0.4.9-15
+Version: 0.4.9-16
 Author: Kevin Ushey, Jonathan McPherson, Joe Cheng, Aron Atkins, JJ Allaire
 Maintainer: Kevin Ushey <kevin@rstudio.com>
 Description: Manage the R packages your project depends
@@ -21,4 +21,5 @@ Suggests:
     rmarkdown
 URL: https://github.com/rstudio/packrat/
 BugReports: https://github.com/rstudio/packrat/issues
-RoxygenNote: 6.1.0
+RoxygenNote: 6.1.1
+Encoding: UTF-8
diff --git a/R/external.R b/R/external.R
index 4cdcd666..8beafa01 100644
--- a/R/external.R
+++ b/R/external.R
@@ -81,10 +81,20 @@ with_extlib <- function(packages = NULL, expr, envir = parent.frame()) {
 ##' @rdname packrat-external
 ##' @export
 extlib <- function(packages) {
-  lib.loc <- getDefaultLibPaths()
-  for (package in packages) {
-    library(package, character.only = TRUE, lib.loc = lib.loc)
-  }
+
+  # place user library at front of library paths (we want to
+  # include both the user library and the packrat library just
+  # so that external packaegs can still load and depend on
+  # packages only installed within the private library as well)
+  oldLibPaths <- .libPaths()
+  newLibPaths <- c(getDefaultLibPaths(), .libPaths())
+
+  .libPaths(newLibPaths)
+  on.exit(.libPaths(oldLibPaths), add = TRUE)
+
+  for (package in packages)
+    library(package, character.only = TRUE)
+
 }
 
 loadExternalPackages <- function() {
diff --git a/inst/resources/init-rprofile.R b/inst/resources/init-rprofile.R
index 38d666b1..5d92b195 100644
--- a/inst/resources/init-rprofile.R
+++ b/inst/resources/init-rprofile.R
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-#### -- Packrat Autoloader (version 0.4.9-15) -- ####
+#### -- Packrat Autoloader (version 0.4.9-16) -- ####
 source("packrat/init.R")
 #### -- End Packrat Autoloader -- ####
diff --git a/inst/resources/init.R b/inst/resources/init.R
index 7a653767..b19637b3 100644
--- a/inst/resources/init.R
+++ b/inst/resources/init.R
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ local({
     ## an 'installed from source' version
 
     ## -- InstallAgent -- ##
-    installAgent <- "InstallAgent: packrat 0.4.9-15"
+    installAgent <- "InstallAgent: packrat 0.4.9-16"
 
     ## -- InstallSource -- ##
     installSource <- "InstallSource: source"
diff --git a/tests/testthat/.gitignore b/tests/testthat/.gitignore
index 9b6e3511..0038e951 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/.gitignore
+++ b/tests/testthat/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 repo
 packages/packrat
+packrat/lib*/
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-with_extlib.R b/tests/testthat/test-with_extlib.R
index 00dca5a6..ac4226fe 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-with_extlib.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-with_extlib.R
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 context("extlib without packages")
 
 test_that("with_extlib successfully works with no packages provided", {
+  skip_on_cran()
 
   ## Make sure packrat mode is off
   if (packrat:::isPackratModeOn())