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Tulane Law Library's Electronic Interlibrary Loan Service |
Location and Service Hours: Interlibrary Loan Office
The Interlibrary Loan office is located within the Circulation Department on the third floor of the Law Library. The office is staffed from 8:30 a.m. -- 5:00 p.m. (Monday through Friday). Interlibrary Loan materials may be picked up from the Circulation Desk when they arrive, but they should be returned to the the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Office when they are returned. If the ILL office is not open, please return the borrowed material to the Circulation Desk.
Who May Request Materials through the Interlibrary Loan Service?
Tulane Law Library Interlibrary Loan services are available only to currently enrolled law students, law faculty, and law staff.
Loans to Other Libraries
Requests are accepted from academic, public, and special libraries that make their own material available through participation in an interlibrary loan system. Participation is usually indicated by membership in one of the major U.S. bibliographic networks (OCLC) or by a listing in the American Library Directory (Bowker) or the Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers (Gale). Tulane's policies are complementary to the National Interlibrary Loan Code for the United States as established by the American Library Association. Our library symbol is LRL.
Purpose of Interlibrary Loan
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a library service designed to help patrons obtain materials (or photocopies of materials) from other participating libraries in the United States when the item cannot otherwise be obtained from an uptown campus library (including Howard-Tilton, Amistad Research Center, Newcomb Women's Center, or the Business School Library). The Library offers this service as a supplement to the library's collection, not as a substitute for the collection. Every effort should be made to exhaust Tulane's resources before utilizing the ILL service. The terms of the Interlibrary Loan Service are set by the National Interlibrary Loan Code and the regulations of the individual lending libraries.
Copyright (Warning Concerning Copyright Restrictions)
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 copy order if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of copyright law.
How to Use ILL
To request materials, all users must first register online through ILLIad -- our electronic interlibrary loan system. There is a link to this service at the top of this webpage; a second link is available on the Library's sidebar (to the right of your screen under "Quick Links"). If accessing this database from offsite you will be prompted for a username and password. Use your regular law school username and password. If you have difficulty accessing the database, please notify us by reporting the problem to the Tulane Law School helpdesk (lawhelpdesk@tulane.edu).
Once in ILLiad, you will find step-by-step information for establishing a personal ILL account. Once registered, users can request interlibrary loan materials through ILLiad, check the status of their pending requests, and view a history of requests previously submitted. Before requesting materials, phowever, please check the Law Library's Online Catalog and TULANet Voyager (the main university library catalog) to verify that other uptown campus libraries do not own the material. Only requests made through ILLiad will be processed, and all request forms must be completed in full, including the date the materials are no longer needed, the volume and inclusive page numbers if articles are requested, the correct title and date of the publication, and the author's name (if applicable). Patrons should seek the assistance of a Reference Librarian before submitting an incomplete ILL request form. Incomplete forms may delay the processing of an ILL request, or may result in the request being returned as "unfilled." The burden of providing an accurate citation is placed on the library patron, not on the lending library.
Materials that May be Requested Through the ILL Service
Lending libraries determine what materials are to be loaned. Books, reports, audiovisual materials, journal articles, and some materials reproduced in microform, such as newspapers, can be borrowed at the discretion of the lending institution. Photocopies of articles may be requested in accordance with the copyright law and guidelines (Title 17, U.S.C.). Items withdrawn or reported missing from the Tulane Law Library collection may be requested as well.
Materials that May not be Requested Through the ILL Service
The following types of materials CANNOT normally be requested through our ILL service: (1) books or periodicals owned by the Tulane Law Library or other uptown campus libraries, including those materials temporarily in use, on reserve, in Special Collections, or part of a Reference Collection; (2) an entire volume of a journal, periodical, reporter, code, or digest cannot be requested, but individual articles or pages can be; (3) rare books; (4) looseleaf volumes; (5) volumes belonging to a multi-volume set; or (6) reference material.
How Long Will it Take to Receive the Borrowed Item?
It is our goal to electronically process ILL requests within two working days of receiving them. The amount of time taken for requested materials to arrive depends upon several factors such as completeness of request form, proximity of lending library, and transit time. Generally, a minimum of 8-10 working days is needed to search, process, and receive each request. It is important to plan ahead when requesting materials through the Interlibrary Loan Service.
Notification
When the requested material arrives, our library patrons will be notified by email. Items should be picked up promptly at the Law Library Circulation Desk. Items not picked up within two weeks of notification will automatically be sent back to the lending library. The electronic email service will also be used to notify patrons when an item is overdue or to cancel a pending request.
Loan Period
Loan periods are set by the lending libraries and will be strictly enforced. We have no control over this aspect of the process.
Returning Materials
All materials borrowed (with the exception of photocopies) should be returned to the ILL office. If the ILL office is closed, the materials may be left at the Circulation Desk. It is very important that we return items promptly so as not to jeopardize our borrowing privileges. If you wish to borrow the material longer than the due date, please request a renewal through ILLiad prior to the due date. Renewals are completely at the discretion of the lending library. Repeated disregard of lending library due dates will result in the loss of ILL privileges.
Charges
Although ILL is provided as a free service to law school students, law faculty, and law staff, all patrons are responsible for any overdue fines or fees levied against them by the lending institution. If an item is lost, the patron will be billed accordingly by the lending institution. All fines or bills may be paid at the ILL office within the Law Library. Fines for overdue ILL material are assessed at $3.00 a day. Items more than 30 days overdue are considered lost and replacement and processing fees (minimum of $75.00) will be added to the accumulated fines.
Please remember that Interlibrary Loan is a privilege, not a right. There is no guarantee that if a request is sent, the materials will be loaned.