Interlibrary Loan

Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a service we offer to help you get books, scores, and articles (and sometimes other items) not in our library collections. Please use the below links to access our ILL system: 

First time users will need to create a profile. Login with your University Account (Microsoft Login). The first time you login, you will need to enter your personal contact information and a few details. You can immediately request journal articles, book chapters, books, or dissertations. 

What will it cost?

There is no charge for ILL services, unless borrowed items are lost or damaged. 

Before Requesting

Make sure what you want is not at Buley Library

  • Books, scores, microforms: Check SouthernSearch (online catalog).
  • Articles: Check journal title in Journals A-Z for availability and coverage dates. You can also search the article title in SouthernSearch to see if the systems finds full-text availability.

What Can Be Borrowed?

  • Books and scores absent from our collection, or materials present in our collection that are checked out or missing.
    • If an item is "available" in SouthernSearch but is not on the shelf, you may not request it. Use the Report a Problem button in SouthernSearch to report an item missing from the shelves and a staff member will attempt to locate the item. If the item is found, it will be put on the hold shelf for you at the Main Library Circulation Desk. If the item is not found, it will be declared missing and you may then place an ILL request.
  • Articles
  • Microform
  • Dissertations

What Cannot be Borrowed?

These types of materials cannot be borrowed:

  • Whole issues or volumes of periodicals
  • Recent or un-microfilmed newspapers
  • Reference or rare books
  • Maps
  • Videos, DVDs, sound recordings, films and electronic media

There are several ways to place a request depending on the type of material you need.

Requesting Articles

Requesting Books

Renewing Books

May I Renew Loans?

ILLiad: You may request a renewal within your ILLiad account prior to the due date, but not all items will be renewable. If you still need a renewal after the due date has passed, please email interlibraryloan@southernct.edu and we will attempt to accommodate you.

How Do I Renew?

ILLiad: Log into your ILLiad account and use "View/Renew Checked-out Items".

What If I Wait Until After The Due Date?

ILLiad: Email your renewal request to interlibraryloan@southernct.edu or call the Interlibrary Loan Office at 203-392-7038. If the item can't be renewed, you'll be sent a recall notice via email. Otherwise, after a day or two, check your ILLiad account for the new renewal date issued from the lending library.

Overdue and Damaged Books

What If I Have An Overdue Item?

ILLiad: You will receive an email overdue notice the first week the item is due. After another week you will be sent a second overdue notice. A final overdue notice will be sent on the third week and your ILLiad account will be BLOCKED until the item has been returned. Overdue fines from the lending library and/or replacement costs will be charged to your college account.

What if I Damage or Lose an Item?

ILLiad: users are responsible for all ILL materials in their possession, and for replacement costs for materials damaged or lost while in their possession. Replacement costs are determined by the lending library, and often include a processing fee.

How Do I Keep Track of Items I Have Ordered?

ILLiad: Log into your ILLiad account and use "View/Renew Checked-out Items".

Other Restrictions

Items borrowed through Interlibrary Loan may not be put on Reserve or borrowed for group use.

Since Interlibrary Loan is a courtesy, the requester takes full responsibility for the item borrowed and must observe restrictions the lending library may impose.

Buley Library adheres to the regulations of the ALA Interlibrary Loan Code, the International Interlibrary Loan Code and the Copyright Act to comply with the law and to maintain good will with other libraries.

Buley Library loans materials from its collection to other libraries. We are an OCLC Worldshare ILL member and you can request items via our OCLC Symbol, CTN. Our affiliations are LYRA, LVIS, RAPID. As an LVIS library, we do not charge for lending.

Lending Policies

Books Will lend 42 days
No Fee
Renewable upon request depending on the lending library
Journals Will make photocopies
Copies of the articles can be kept by the library patron
No Microfilm/microfiche
Dissertations Will lend if available
No photocopies
Film and Video Tape No
Sound Recording No
Newspapers Will not lend
Genealogical/ Local History Will lend if available

Billing: Invoices for lost books will be sent to the borrowing library 

For Connecticut Libraries

  • Our DeliverIT route code is J-127. Please know that we only have pickups once a week, so it may take some time when we are returning your materials.
  • If your library participates in OCLC Worldshare ILL please make any lending requests through that system. We will lend for free to public libraries in Connecticut who are not OCLC Worldshare ILL members. If you would like to set up borrowing, please contact us via email or phone.

The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted materials.

Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research". If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use", that user may be liable for copyright infringement.

This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of copyright law.

Contact Interlibrary Loan

Located at the Buley Library Check Out Desk

Phone: (203) 392-7038

Email: interlibraryloan@southernct.edu