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What?

Interlibrary Loan acquires materials from other libraries for Texas A&M University-Commerce faculty members, graduate students, undergraduate students and staff. If you request a book, we borrow a copy. If you request a journal article, we obtain a photocopy.

We charge you nothing for Interlibrary Loan service, even if the supplying school charges us.

NOTE: We do not borrow textbooks for your classes.

Distance Education and Interlibrary Loan

Dissertations and Interlibrary Loan

When?

The Interlibrary Loan Office is open 8-5, M-F, but you may pick up interlibrary loan material at the Circulation Desk any hour the library is open. Most materials arrive in one to two weeks.

If we borrow a book for you we send you a notice and hold the book at the Circulation Desk. The lending library sets the due date on books; it is usually about 3 weeks use. We can request a renewel, but it is up to the loaning library to say "yes" or "no" and to set the new due date. There is no semester check-out for interlibrary loan material.

If we obtain photocopies we mail them to you if you have a Campus Mail mailing address. Otherwise, we hold the articles for you at the Circulation Desk and send you a notice that articles are here.

How?

We use 2 types of request forms -- one for books, one for journals. You may obtain them in the Interlibrary Loan Office, in the Reference Department, or at the Circulation Desk; and they may be submitted at any of those three places. We order most of the material electronically so we usually get yesand no answers to our requests in a day or two, but the actual delivery of the item takes longer.

You can also submitt ILL requests electronically. From the Library home page select   Electronic Forms. You may choose from three options: (1) you type in the citation, (2) cut and paste, and (3) print out a blank form to be filled out manually and submitted in person or by mail.

We have 2 mail systems-- U.S. mail, and courier. The Courier runs daily, M-F, connecting almost all major libraries in Texas. Electronic delivery of photocopies via fax or another system called Ariel can often result in quick delivery for articles.

Fines?

Where?

The Interlibrary Loan Office is located on the first floor next to the Circulation Desk. Our phones are 886-5741 and 886-5722; fax is (903) 886-5723.

Interlibrary Loan Requests by E-Mail

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