#inter-library loan

[nonstandardrepertoire]

using the Very Fancy Intellectual inter-library loan at a local university to request the next Christie murder mystery i want to read and marking it "critical to my research interests"

[bristolbookworm]

The Memoirs of Lady Trent - Marie Brennan

The Memoirs of Lady Trent – Marie Brennan

The first two books in this series are covered in an earlier review. After a wait for Voyage of the Basilisk (acquired through inter-library loan), I devoured the last three books of this series. The setup for the twist in Within the Sanctuary of Wings was sufficiently obvious through that I had spotted it mid-series. Especially once Isabella married. But whatever the lack of surprise, it is more…

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[mktilghman]

RESEARCH: Serendipity strikes again

Serendipity strikes again—Thanks to a librarian. #amwriting

I had to have the video. I was sure this little item was going to clear up questions I had about life in post-Revolution Annapolis. If nothing else, it would clear up a question about clothing.

I knew it was an old video, so old even the original TV station that aired it didn’t have it anymore. And it wasn’t anywhere in my local library system. But with dreams of a major motion picture, a…

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[psychology-librarian]

Can't access the article you need? Try this...

Can’t access the article you need? Try this…

(Edited version of original by neeel on Flickr – used under a CC-BY license) A few weeks ago I wrote a post suggesting a number of options you can try if we don’t have access to the journal article you need. Since writing that post, I’ve come across another method you can try which, after a bit of investigation, does seem to work pretty well! As many of you will know, most journal articles have a…

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[psychology-librarian]

What do you do when you can't access the article you need?

What do you do when you can’t access the article you need?

Image c/o Amarpreet K on Flickr – CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. We’ve all been there. You’ve found a great journal article that is almost perfect for your literature review. But there’s a problem: you can’t access the article with your Athens login. So what do you do? Yell a few expletives, bash your keyboard a bit and explode with frustration? Well, you could do that. But then you’d have to clear up the mess…

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[boogalaxy]

Sharing the love.

"Hello, I'd like to get a book on inter-library loan.  Can you give me some idea of how long it might take?"

"Generally, a week to ten days.  Sometimes longer."

"Seriously?  Is there no chance I'd be able to get it tomorrow, or the day after?"

"Only if we can find a library that could mail it to us in two days."

"Find a library?"

"Yes.  We have to see what library has the book, and then we apply to them for an inter-library loan."

"You mean these books come from other libraries?"

[prayingforlove]

Requested 4 books through ILL based on the Japan Typography book I came across on here. I can't wait to see all their "cancelled request" emails tomorrow since there's like 8 in the world of each of the books I requested and they probably won't even try to get them. 

[librarean]

An Unexplained Peculiarity

Today at work I dealt once again with a request for a book that has been inexplicably popular of late: Miss Jill, a 1947 novel by one Emily Hahn. Ever since May or so, it's come up oddly frequently in our request queues, and I've usually had to refuse those requests because it's out circulating somewhere. We're far from being the only library that has it, yet I would venture to say that it's been more popular than any other holding except, perhaps, our Steve Jobs biographies. I've been trying to figure out why this obscure novel is such a big deal, but to no avail, so I thought I'd see if anyone has an idea. Miss Jill: why?