If you need a book or article that the library doesn’t seem to have, don’t give up—get it through Interlibrary Loan (ILL). This free service enables all ATU students, staff, and faculty the privilege of getting a book from just about anywhere in the world.
Through borrowing agreements with other libraries, you could get an article emailed directly to you within a couple of days. Books or media may take up to a week or longer. But they will be delivered to your home library (Ozark Campus or Russellville Campus) for convenient pick-up. If you are a distance education student, we can even mail them to your home address.
When you submit a request, we ask our library friends from all of the state, region, country, or the world if we could borrow their copy, and they will loan us the book or scan a copy of their journal article. In exchange, we loan our books and scan articles here for other libraries. Last year alone, ATU students, faculty, and staff borrowed 475 items from other libraries. We also lent 1933 items to libraries all over the world.
If you need a book or article we don’t have, you can fill out this simple request form or email our ILL office at ill@atu.edu.
Alternatively, if you searching for something in our main library database, Find It, and can’t find it, try clicking the filter dropdown Held By Library and select Libraries Worldwide. This initiates a search for the title found at other libraries.
Once you find your item, click on the Title. You will see the Access Option: Request Item through Interlibrary Loan:
This will immediately fill out the ILL request form with most of the required fields, making this a faster method to request materials.
You will find this option available in many subject databases like Academic Search Complete for articles without an immediate full-text PDF or link.
When you see Access Options: “Check Find It for Availability or Request through interlibrary loan,” you should FIRST select “Check Find It”—this will search our main library database in case we have full-text available through another provider.
If we still do not have full-text, you’ll be presented with another option: “Request Item through Interlibrary Loan.”
Click this button will also fill out most of the required fields on the ILL request form, saving you time.
For more information about this remarkable service, visit the ILL Homepage or watch this video tutorial on how it all works.
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