Following these tips can speed up the turnaround time for Interlibrary Loan Processing. What this means is Butler students, faculty, and staff can get books and articles sent to the Butler campus much quicker.

• Obtaining an ILLIAD Account.
• The home library should be selected with care. 
  Selection of home library should be determined by field of study, not
  the class hosting the instruction session.  A change to home library after
  an ILLIAD account is set is not encouraged.  Tracking requests after
  changes to home library is very difficult.  Rule of thumb: Science majors should generally select the Science Library and Liberal arts should  select Irwin Library.

• When creating a User Profile to obtain an ILLIAD account, you MUST use your Butler email
  address.  No other email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail) will be recognized.

•  Filing an ILL Request.

• File ILL requests directly from an electronic database (World Cat,
  EBSCO, etc.) whenever possible.  This limits mistakes made in entering
  information into the request.  Use the SFX Find It! button whenever
  available.

• Check the Butler Library Catalog
  and journal holdings in the Citation Linker before filing any ILL requests. 
  Databases are not always accurate in reflecting our holdings.

• Be discriminating when it comes to requesting
  items through ILL.  Even though students, graduate students, staff and
  faculty are not charged for the Interlibrary Loan Service, it can be very
  costly.  From the postage to send material to and from BU to the cost to paying
  copyright fees, a book or article may be as much as $30-$50.  When someone
  orders material and then never picks it up, or orders needlessly, it
  jeopardizes the standard of keeping this service free to all users.

• Please limit the number of dissertations you request.  Often there is only one copy available and most libraries will not loan them.

•  Renewing ILL Requests.
  
  
  • ILL materials can be renewed through your Interlibrary Loan Account. To log-on click on the ILLIAD link. Once in your account select VIEW/RENEW, and follow the directions.  Bookmarks detailing this
    information are inserted in each loan.  Not all ILL materials are
    renewable.  It is at the discretion of the lending library.  Renewals
    must be requested 3-5 days before the due date.

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