Interlibrary Loan

Items we don’t have access to may be requested through InterLibrary Loan. Interlibrary Loan is available at no cost to students, faculty, staff, and those alumni who have a borrowing card.

These materials can be borrowed through Interlibrary Loan:

• Books
• Journal Articles
• Theses & Dissertations
• Music scores
• Audio/visual materials

These materials might not be borrowable through ILL:

• Whole periodical issues
• Recent newspapers
• Some movies and audio recordings
• Some reference books
• Bulky, fragile, rare, or extremely valuable materials
• Any item that a potential lending library is not willing to loan

About ILL

Journal articles are delivered via email.  It usually takes a couple days for you to receive your article.  You can always check the status of a pending request by logging into your InterLibrary Loan account.

Books may take between a few days and a couple weeks to deliver.  When a book arrives, you will be notified via email that your ILL request is ready.  They can be picked up at the circulation desk.

Terms of the Lending Library

Because books you request through ILL are owned by other libraries, those libraries set the loan period, which is normally about two weeks. You may renew a book if you see the renew button next to the book title in your account.  If you do not see a renew button, then the book cannot be renewed at that time. Return all ILL books to the Information Desk. ILL books may also be recalled by the lending institution, in which case we would need the material returned immediately. Lending libraries also determine any conditions regarding the use of their materials. Limitations such as “No Renewal” or “Library Use Only” must be honored.

For assistance, contact the Interlibrary Loan Office, (535- 2576), or the Reference Librarian (535-2455).

When to ILL

The library provides access to thousands of resources instantly, but sometimes you encounter items we don't have.  Here's how to tell when ILL is the right choice:

Books

If you see one of these buttons next to an item you want, you should place an ILL request:

Articles

If you see a link like this in one of our databases, click it to look for full-text:

If no full-text link is found, you can request the article through ILL:

Still have questions about ILL?