Document Delivery (ILL)
Policies
Only current Rhode Island College students, faculty, emeriti faculty and staff with a validated borrowers card, have Interlibrary Loan privileges.
Please submit no more than 5 Inter-Library Loan requests at any one time.
You will be contacted when the item(s) arrive and can pick them up at the Circulation Desk.
Request Forms
- Request a book (including government documents, dissertations, etc.)
- Request an article (including newspaper and magazine articles)
You must provide complete bibliographic information on the ILL forms. For books, this information should include: author, title, publication date, publisher / government agency / conference sponsor / university, etc. For a chapter in a book, please request the whole book and not the single chapter.
For journal article requests, the bibliographic information should include: author and title of the article, title of the periodical, volume #, issue #, date of issue and page numbers. If the original citation includes an ISSN Number, please include it on the form.
Be sure to check our Online Full Text Periodicals list to identify what we get full text online.
Also, please indicate in the "CITED IN" box where you found the citation. (WORLDCAT, Books in Print, ERIC, PsycINFO, bibliography, etc.). Ask a reference librarian for assistance with citation information. And please read the statement in ILL Policies regarding possible costs for ILL transactions.
Arrival of materials
The average amount of time it takes to acquire materials through ILL is 10 days to 2 weeks. See Access Services staff if your need for information is more immediate. All ILL materials should be picked up in the Circulation Desk on the 3rd floor of the Library.