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Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Services

Interlibrary Loan Services: 410-704-43292

Services

Students may use ILL services to obtain books or journal articles not owned by the TU Cook Library. The ILL Office also does not obtain books from the University System of Maryland (USM) libraries as you may do that directly through the Patron-Placed Hold service the online catalog. The items that can be obtained through the library's ILL Office are:

• Books not obtainable through the Cook Library, other USM libraries, St. Mary's library, and Morgan State University's library.
• Photocopies of journal articles not available at the Cook Library.
• Dissertations and masters' theses.

Time Requirements

The length of time to obtain an ILL varies, but most materials are received within ten days to two weeks. The ILL Office will not borrow bulky or fragile items that are difficult or too expensive to send. The ILL Office staff makes every effort to obtain materials by the requested deadline.

How to Make Requests - ILLiad

All Interlibrary Loan requests are processed by our ILLiad system. To use ILLiad, you must create an ILLiad account, You will also be able to use a Web browser to view the status of your requests.

To learn more about ILLiad, read the ILLiad FAQ.

To create an ILLiad account, go to the ILLiad Login page.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Services / Albert S. Cook Library
http://cooklibrary.towson.edu/ILL.cfm
Last revised: October 01, 2007

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