Using InterLibrary Loan

            If Myrin Library doesn’t have a book or article that you need, we will try to get the book or a photocopy of the article for you through InterLibrary Loan.  You do not have to know which library has it; we can do that.  We send requests to the libraries that will give us the best service, but it can still take more than a week, especially late in the semester, when students all over the country are finishing their work.  Plan ahead and submit your requests as early as possible.

            It is important to evaluate sources, and request only those that you are fairly sure will be useful.  It takes time to process your requests, and although there is no cost to you, the library must pay a fee for each InterLibrary Loan transaction.  Money spent on frivolous requests reduces the amount available to buy more books or journals for our collection.

            Please check our holdings before submitting a request.  You can have the material immediately, rather than waiting for several days, only to have someone from the library call or e-mail you to tell you it is in Myrin Library.  (Meanwhile, someone else might have checked it out, and we can’t borrow something we own.) Check the Myrin Library Catalog for books and periodical titles.  If a journal title is abbreviated, try to find the full title by clicking on the link indicated on the form.