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Interlibrary Borrowing: Policies

The staff of Interlibrary Borrowing obtain Journal articles, books, conference papers, conference proceedings, technical reports, patents, and other materials to support MIT work-related research and education

Who is Eligible for ILB?

MIT faculty, staff & students
Visiting scholars & staff
Haystack staff
Dibner staff & fellows

ILB Services are not available to:

Affiliates (& dependents)
BLC students
Harvard patrons
Interphase & MITES students
Lincoln Lab staff
Alumni
Privilege Card holders
Wellesley faculty, staff & students
Whitehead Institute staff
Draper Lab staff, affiliates& retirees
Non-registered (guest) students
Cross-registered students (Harvard)
MIT retirees
Sustaining fellows
Unpaid staff

What Can be Borrowed:

• Books, A/V materials, conference proceedings, technical reports
  Articles, Conference Papers, Patents
• Theses not available for purchase via ProQuest or other commercial providers
• ILB staff will exhaust all avenues to fill requests, including archival or rare materials, regardless of format.
• ILB service is limited to current faculty, students, and staff in support MIT work-related research and education

Items that can't be Borrowed by ILB:

• Items owned by MIT (including items on loan, reserve, or in storage at LSA)
• Dissertations that can be purchased through ProQuest or cannot be loaned to MIT

How to make an ILB request:

• ILB transactions may be initiated through ILLiad, accessible from the ILB home page http://libraries.mit.edu/ilb
  • users must register the first time that the make a request
  • if a user forgets her ILLiad password, contact ilb-lib@mit.edu
• Request material through licensed electronic resources, via the ILLiad link in the SFX menu.
  • Users are routed to ILLiad and citations will be filled into the ILLiad request froms.
• Patrons will not receive an email confirmation of the request when they make a request through ILLiad, they can view their requests at any time from ILLiad by selecting "View/Modify Outstanding Requests."

What are the methods of delivery?

• Articles are delivered electronically in PDF format via ILLiad
• Books are held for pickup at MIT Libraries public service desks (except Lewis Music)

What are the loan periods for books?

• Loan periods range from 10 to 28 days, and are determined by the lender.
• Useful information can be found on the label/book strap attached to an ILB loan:
  • Patron Name & Email
  • Due Date
  • Author or Title
  • ILLiad Transaction # (necessary for requesting a renewal)
  • Renewal Possible?
    • Renewals may be possible, depending on the lender. If a renewal is possible, the book strap on the item will say “Renewal Possible: Yes”
    • Patrons may request a one-time 14-day renewal.
    • If a renewal is possible, direct user to ILLiad to renew
    • ILB materials cannot be renewed via Your Account in Barton.

Dissertations

• Requests for dissertations available for sale at ProQuest/UMI or providers cannot be filled via ILB

• ILB will try to borrow dissertations that are not in ProQuest and can be borrowed as a loan from another library.

• For more info, see Find a Non-MIT Thesis / Dissertation (this page is accessible from the MIT Libraries home page, listed below the orange Help Yourself links)

  Take these steps to help patrons find and locate non-MIT theses:

1. Find complete citations for theses using Proquest's Digital Dissertations http://libraries.mit.edu/get/dissertations
2. Determine if the thesis can be borrowed from another institution or if it must be purchased from Dissertations Express http://wwwlib.umi.com/dxweb/gateway
   1. If the item is available for sale via Dissertations Express, we can’t borrow it. Give the URL and Order Number to the patron, and the patron can purchase the item directly.
   2. If you don’t find the thesis in Dissertations Express, direct the patron to the ILB home page and ILLiad, and we will try to borrow it if it can be borrowed.
      

Lost Books

• If MIT owns a book, but it is marked as “Lost” in Barton, we will borrow it.
• If a patron can’t find an item, we look for a status of “On Search” or “Search Initiated” in Barton prior to processing the request. Users don’t have to wait for the search to be resolved.
• If a patron requests an item and Barton doesn’t indicate that it is lost, ILB staff ask patrons to initiate a search on the item first.

ILB Alternatives

• Boston Library Consortium Cards
• Harvard Borrowing Cards
• Boston Public Library will borrow materials for residents of greater Boston. The BPL is a member of the Boston Library Consortium
  

 

 

last edited August 1, 2006
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