Interlibrary Loan
INTERLIBRARY LOAN DEPARTMENT
610-647-4400 X3826
The Interlibrary Loan Department will help current Immaculata University students, faculty, and staff find books and/or articles that are not on our shelves, not full-text in our databases, or not found in our electronic journals. Once we receive your request, we will search thousands of libraries nationwide to get the materials for you as quickly as we can. Most requests will take between 3-10 working days to fill. Journal articles will be forwarded to your Immaculata e-mail address. Materials such as books, microfilm/fiche, and articles we receive in hardcopy form will need to be picked up from the ILL shelves at the reference desk.
To receive your request in a timely and accurate manner, please note the following:
- Your library account must be current and free of fines. Call the circulation desk at 610-647-4400 X3839 to update your card.
- Fill out the request form accurately. If you leave out important citation information it will probably delay the process. Call the reference desk at 610-647-4400 X3829 for help.
- Check the On-line Catalog to determine if we own the item that you need. If we do, we will not request it from another library for you.
- You may submit up to five requests per day.
- We will send articles ONLY to your Immaculata e-mail address.
- Please delete articles from your mailbox as you use them to free up space for subsequent requests.
- You may need Adobe Reader to read a pdf attachment.
- Books, especially those coming from out of state, may take ten days to arrive. Please plan accordingly.
- Beginning 7 days after the due date, we will charge ALL interlibrary loan users a $1.00-per-day late fee for overdue materials.
- If the material is unavailable, please speak to a librarian about your research strategy. There may be other databases or resources that you have not yet explored that are readily available.