Dorothy Hargett, Access Services Librarian
The Library is pleased to announce a new service for distance students. Until now, distance students have only been able to borrow books from the Regent Library collection. We receive comments about this limitation each year on our Customer Satisfaction Survey, such as these:
- “I have honestly avoided using any materials you don’t have because I am a distance student, and it’s not convenient to borrow. The one time I attempted to use Interlibrary Loan, they were unable to fulfill my request.”
- “Need to let distance students get books through Interlibrary Loan”
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Beginning this semester, distance students residing within the United States may use their Regent ILLiad accounts to borrow up to two (2) books per quarter from other libraries through our Interlibrary Loan (ILL) department.
If you need a book that is not in the Regent Library, our ILL team will search holdings across libraries worldwide to locate an available copy. You can request these books by the same process you use for requesting Regent-owned items. As we have always done with our own books, we will ship items from other libraries to your home at no charge to you. You pay only the cost of shipping the items back (if you are unable to return the books in person). Returning borrowed books by the due date will enable the ILL team to ship them back to the lending library in a timely manner, saving us (and you) late fines.
Although we recommend using your local public library’s ILL service if available, we recognize that not all public libraries offer ILL, so we are glad that we can now make this important resource available to all our students.