Interlibrary Loan (ILL)

Loans (or things you eventually will need to return):

• Almost anything another library has that we don’t,* whether that be a book, DVD, music or audiobook CD, microform, map, or other circulated item. 
• Items owned by Middlebury that are currently checked out, on reserve, missing, or otherwise unavailable.  We will order items about to go on Reserve, so include a note in your request if that is why you are ordering an item.

*Make sure you search the Middlebury Library Catalog in LibrarySearch (go/midcat/) first to make sure we don't already own the item.

Articles:
This includes: journal or serial articles, book chapters, short pamphlets out of copyright, and segments of any larger works. Articles are:

• Delivered to your ILLiad account electronically as PDF's.
• Usually delivered within 24-48 hours (depending on availability of request).
• Emails are sent to your Middlebury address when the PDF is available. 
• PDFs are only available for 45 days in your ILLiad account due to copyright. Please be sure to save or print the articles once you open them.

eBooks:  (Select Format: E-Resource in ILLiad or Format: Digital in LibrarySearch.)

Warning!  Availability of full eBooks through ILL is still varied and limited. 

Order the full eBook first!  Then put in a second order for the first chapter you need or if you don’t just know the content of the book well enough to craft a request, just ask for the Chapter title of “Cover to page 35” and list the pages the same way “Cover-35”  This will usually give you about a chapter and include the pages needed for citing and the official ‘Table of Contents’ for the book as well.  Using the books Table of Contents it is usually easier to place additional requests for other chapters.  (The request ‘Cover to page 35’ can be cloned in ILLiad and then you just need to change the chapter title and pages fields before resubmitting to ILL.)

If the ebook succeeds you will have all you need, if it fails you already have some of the book to start working with and can easily order additional chapters as needed.  (For both scanning and downloading purposes, if you order chapters, try to stick to a single chapter per request.)

Place your request regardless, and we'll try to get it for you.

We may not be able to borrow the following:

• Some reference books
• Most archival or very rare materials
• Most whole periodical issues
• Most senior, honors and master’s theses
• Some artists materials cataloged as ‘boxed’ or ‘linear footage’
• Items not held by many or any libraries
• Materials only held overseas
• Equipment

While many of these items may not be available to borrow, we can often request scans of a portion (chapter, entry, segment, etc.) of any of these instead.

Many theses and dissertations are now available online. You can use the Dissertations/Theses Source Type filter in LibrarySearch or try searching the ProQuest Disertations and Theses Database.

If you can’t find the thesis online: