Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Department

405.945.3251

 

OSU-OKC Faculty, Staff, and Students can request books and other resources from other libraries and pick them up at the OSU-OKC Library using Interlibrary Loan. locating and obtaining materials which are not available in the OSU-OKC Library.

 

• If you already have a citation, you can go directly to the ILL Request Form.
  • Your request automatically goes to the Interlibrary Loan department. 
• To find books in other libraries, request your material in WorldCat.  
  • Once you find the item you want, click the blue button to request through interlibrary loan and complete the form.  
  • Your request automatically goes to the Interlibrary Loan department. 
• Most articles are available via the library catalog, Pete's Portal. Look for the Interlibrary Loan link that appears when full text is not available.
• Complete as much of the request form as possible. Including an ISBN/ISSN or information about where you found the resource will speed requests.
  
  
• Please allow seven days to four weeks for an article or book to arrive. Response time depends on the location of the material and the promptness of the lending library. (Materials are ​requested from several libraries, and each location has 4 working days to respond.) Patrons will be notified by phone or email when materials arrive and may be picked up at the circulation desk. Materials must be returned promptly on the date due.
  
  
• All borrowing and photocopying of materials is done within the provisions of the General Interlibrary Loan Code of the American Library Association, of the Oklahoma State Interlibrary Loan Code, and the U.S. Copyright Law and accompanying guidelines. The codes generally discourage or prohibit borrowing of inexpensive paperback materials, recent imprints (publication date during the present year), or whole volumes or issues of journals. Copyright law guidelines prohibit a library from borrowing more than five articles published in the last five years from one journal title during any calendar year.
  
  
• Dissertations usually cannot be borrowed because of the agreement universities have with University Microfilms International (UMI). Patrons may purchase Xerographic or microform copies from UMI; see librarian for procedures and address. Some dissertations are available for loan on microfiche. You are then responsible for making your own copies at the University of Oklahoma or another university that may have a reader. We will be glad to call any library to find out if they have a fiche reader.
  
  
• When titles (books and periodicals) are available from the Metropolitan Library System, we encourage the patron to pick up materials from the nearest branch library. Choosing this option means the patron will receive materials more quickly.
  
  
• Occasionally, a public patron may request an Interlibrary Loan. We refer these patrons to the Metropolitan Library System or to an appropriate college library.
  
  
• Generally, only books from the circulating collection will be loaned on Interlibrary Loan; i.e. NO Reference, Reserve, or entire periodical, no AV/DVDs that have been in our Library less than one year and no books that have been in our collection less than six months (though exceptions are possible).
  
  
• Students and Staff may request up to five (5) books and/or articles. Adjunct Faculty may request up to twenty (20) books and/or articles. Faculty may request unlimited items, but they are requested to rank or group the requests as they may not all be input on the same day. The only charge passed on will be charges for lost materials or fines and penalties associated with overdue materials.