Interlibrary Loan: Home

-Check all of IUCat. If IU East doesn’t have a book you need, check the box under the search bar to search the entire IU catalog to see if another IU campus owns the book. If they do, you can click on the record to see if the book is available and then you can click the icon in the top right corner for Request Delivery. This is much faster and easier than going through Inter-library loan.

-Journal titles are searchable through IUCat East. If you are searching for articles within a specific journal, you can search the journal title in IUCat to see if IU East has access to it. This is the only instance when searching the entire IU catalog will not help you as we do not have access to other campuses databases.You can also search for a full-text article through Find-It. If you need assistance, you can email iueref@iue.edu

-Book chapters can be requested individually through ILLiad 2.0, but if multiple chapters from the same book are requested, then the whole book will be have to be requested due to copyright law. In a work greater than ten pages, we can request one chapter or 10% of pages, whichever is the greater. The interlibrary loan specialist will contact you in this instance, so if the requester does not want the whole book, or if the requester is strictly online, then the ILL specialist can find out which chapter the requester wants most.  

-The duration of loan time for an ILL book, as well as renewal requests, is completely up to the lending library. IU East library staff do not have authorization to change the lending library due dates. Some books may have certain restrictions (e.g. all books loaned by the Library of Congress are In-Library use only, meaning they must be viewed within the borrowing library).

-If you have any special issues, such as being on sabbatical, not being able to pick up a book before a certain date, etc., please specify this in the note section.

-Only faculty and students who come to campus can request books. The library does not mail books delivered through ILL, so online students and faculty needing a book should check with their local public library. 

-We borrow books on good faith. The library is responsible for the care of the materials we borrow from other libraries and our privilege of borrowing from them is jeopardized if anything is lost or damaged. We may suspend Interlibrary Loan borrowing privileges of any patron who does not return the ILL book and/or the patron may be charged with a replacement fee.  Borrowing privileges will not be reinstated until the matter is resolved. In cases of gross negligence, library patrons may be permanently barred from checking out library items.

-Most places do not lend DVD’s or other A-V materials, computer software, reference books, whole journal or magazine issues, rare books, or genealogy resources.

Just so the patron is aware, there are a few reasons your ILL request may be canceled. 

1. Copyright issues. If you request an article, the request is first sent to "Awaiting Copyright Clearance." An article will either be granted copyright permission (meaning we can proceed in requesting the article) or copyright will be denied or we've reached our max number of requests for a particular journal (5 articles dated within last 5 years).  If copyright is denied or we've reached our max number of requests, then we will cancel the request. If you request multiple articles from the same issue of a journal, one will be granted and the others will be canceled. Dissertations, conference papers, and articles from literary or writing journals may be difficult to get due to access or copyright restrictions. Journals published abroad may also have strict copyright restrictions, especially as their laws may be different from our own. I
2. We do not own the book at IU East, but a copy is available at another IU campus. Whenever we get a book request, we always check IUCat to make sure none of the IU campuses own this item. While the patron should have already done this, sometimes items can be overlooked, so we double check the catalog before proceeding. If another campus owns this book, then the ILL request will be canceled and we will request the book through Request Delivery. 
3. We have access to an article. Again, the patron will have already checked various databases or Find-it to see if an article is available. However, there are a lot of databases and sometimes articles can be overlooked. We recommend searching IUCat for the journal title that the article is in. The IUCat record will tell you if we own the journal and if we do, what years are available and what databases the journal/article can be found in. As a courtesy, if an article request comes in for an article that IU East has access too, depending on the workload of the ILL specialist, the ILL specialist will download and send the article to the patron through Document Delivery. However, there are times when the ILL specialist will be unable to do this, so the request will be canceled along with a note stating what database the patron can search in for the journal article. 
4. No library was able to supply this item. There are times when we are unable to obtain an item because no library we have requested from was able to provide it. Older items, books that may be out of print, text books, reference books, anything on reserve, rare books, genealogical books, anything that may be housed in a special collection, may not circulate through ILL. Some places, including IU East, do not lend DVD's or children's books. Books with limited copies and international journals may be difficult to borrow as well. 

For any questions or concerns about ILL, contact Matt Dilworth at 765-973-8279 or at iueill@iu.edu.

If you need help researching a book or article, you are welcome to contact us at mdilwort@iu.edu or iueref@iu.edu.