Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery

Interlibrary Loan

Interlibrary loan (ILL) is a cooperative service that libraries throughout Georgia and the United States have developed in order to share their collections by lending items to each other. We will request books and photocopies of journal articles unavailable here in Memorial Library. Memorial Library provides interlibrary loan service to current Berry faculty, staff, and students with the understanding that the patron will abide by the regulations of the library.

Before requesting materials, check the on-line catalog, WebVoyage and the Journal Locator, to make sure the item is not available in our library.

Submit all requests using ILLiad, the web-accessible interlibrary loan management system now in use at Memorial Library.  First time users will be ready to submit requests using ILLiad after completion of a simple, one-time registration process.

Additional information about ILLiad / ILL is available in Frequently Asked Questions.

Document Delivery Guidelines

Memorial Library maintains deposit accounts or contractual arrangements with several document-delivery services, including Infotrieve, Ingenta, UMI, the British Library, and others as needed. Document-delivery agreements are in place to supplement interlibrary loan, and may be used whenever they are needed to provide quality service.

At Berry, the primary uses of document delivery are as follows:

1. to provide relief for copyright situations where we have used up our five-article allotment through traditional ILL channels
2. to provide for faster delivery of materials if circumstances warrant, e.g., publisher deadlines for faculty
3. to provide access to materials not easily or economically obtainable through traditional ILL channels

Librarians are happy to work with faculty, staff, and students who may need to use document delivery.

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