Definitions
- Interlibrary loan (abbreviated ILL, sometimes called document delivery, document supply, interlending, interlibrary services, interloan, or resource sharing) is a service that enables patrons of one library to borrow materials that are held by another library.
- Resource Sharing Services (abbreviated as RSS) is the Vanderbilt University Library department that processes inter-library loans, faculty delivery requests at other libraries, and document scanning requests.
Procedures
Interlibrary loans that have arrived from a library outside of Vanderbilt are shelved on the ILL hold shelf by the borrowers last name and have a yellow band around them. These are different than items on the regular hold shelf and have different procedures. When users come to pick up an ILL:
A due date is on the front; no checkout in Alma is necessary!
- Pull the strip from inside the item to later give to Robert
- Desensitize the item
- Give the strip to Robert or place on his chair if he is gone
When users return an ILL, give it to Robert or place the item on his desk.
An item on hold will have a slip inside that says HOLD. When a user comes to pick up an item on hold, leave the slip in and check it out in Alma as normal. Desensitize the item and let them know the due date. When a user returns an item that was on hold, return it in Alma as normal. Alma will tell you the next steps for the item. If it needs to be returned to another library, put a white slip of paper inside the item and write the following:
To: (whichever library it goes to)
From: Music
Date returned
Put item in mail bucket behind the service desk!
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Digital Address
View Interlibrary Loan requests, checkouts and ask for renewals here: https://illiad.library.vanderbilt.edu/illiad/ill/.
