• Each eligible member may process no more than 10 requests per week.
• Normal turn around time is two or three weeks.
• There is no charge for processing the requests.
• There are fines for being overdue and for failure to pick up items requested.

  PROCESS

Requests must be processed electronically from the correct OCLC FirstSearch database and
from the actual record seen on the screen. The requestor should select the interlibrary loan
feature only after checking the James White Library catalog and all the Library's full-text
resources. In filling out the form, give the following:

• Last name, First Name
  
• Address
  
• Phone number
  
• AU ID number
  
• Status.

Exceptions: When there is no OCLC FirstSearch database that contains the needed journal
article, the requestor may fill out a blue card correctly and completely, paste a photocopy of
the citation from a standard source (bibliography, printed index), and write down the OCLC
number (number in brackets) from the Serials Directory or the ISSN from Periodical Titles in
OCLC FirstSearch.

When a needed book is not found in WorldCat or a dissertation is not found in WorldCat or
Dissertation Abstracts, the requestor may fill out the designated cards with a copy of the
citation attached.
Correctly filled out forms may be submitted to the Information Desk (or the Circulation Desk
when no one is at the Information Desk).

For questions or assistance, please go to the Information Desk.

  RECEIVING and RETURNING

Photocopies of articles will be sent directly to the requestor's address. Notices regarding the
arrival of books and dissertations will be sent to the requestor's address.
Since lending time varies from library to library, items must be picked up immediately from and
returned on time to the Circulation Desk.

  RENEWALS

Renewals may or may not be granted by the lending libraries because they have their own
patrons to serve.
It is important to borrow only the number of books that can be read within a very limited time.

In extreme cases when the date of return has to be extended, renewals should be done
no later than three days before the due date in order to give time to communicate with the
lending library.

Steps are as follows: fill out a renewal slip from the Circulation Desk, keep the book with its
original due date, and wait for information from the Interlibrary Loan Office.
The book/s must be returned with both the original date due slip and the
renewal slip with the renewed date to the Circulation Desk.

Books without the renewal slip will be charged an overdue fine when returned after the original
date due. No renewals over the phone, please.

  OPTIONS

Patrons who do not have enough time to process an interlibrary loan may select
one of these options:

1. Visit a nearby library that carries the title needed and photocopy the needed pages.
The periodical title record in the JeWeL catalog lists thelibraries in Berrien County with that title.
OCLC FirstSearch databases give the libraries which own the periodical title.

2. Purchase the article on their own credit card through Uncover Web.

3. Purchase their own bound copy of the dissertation from Bell and Howell/University
Microfilms International by filling out an order form from the Reference Desk.

  DISSERTATION PURCHASES

• Regular Method:

Copies can be purchased in microfilm, microfiche, hard cover, or soft cover.
Do a Dissertation Abstracts search and note the author, title, and accession number (order number)
of the dissertation to be purchased. Ask for a UMI order form from the information desk or process
your request directly from the UMI's web site.

• Rush:

You can order a shrink-wrapped, unbound copy of the dissertation for a cheaper rate.
Once again, it is important that you have all the information about the dissertation especially the
accession number.