Interlibrary loan serves to expand the range of publications
available to the C.W. Post community. Administrators, faculty, staff, and students may
request that publications not owned by C.W. Post be borrowed from
other libraries on a local and national level. Arrangements for
borrowing can be made online through the
book request form and
periodical request form.
(Brentwood Campus students and staff who wish to request a loan may go to
this page).
Faculty and staff who wish to have a copy made of an article that we own here
should use the
photoduplication
request form.
When filling out these forms, always
provide the source of your citation. The source may be a database, a published
abstracting service, or a footnote in another publication.
Please include both the name of the source
and the citation number
or page number where you found the citation.
Time Factors
The time needed to fill interlibrary loan requests varies greatly,
and it is often difficult to predict how much time will be needed.
Books and articles owned by other campuses of Long Island University
can usually be obtained within a few days. Please allow at least three
weeks for delivery of material not owned by Long Island University.
Interlibrary loan periods are determined by the lending library.
Costs
In most instances, the B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library is able to absorb the
costs associated with obtaining books and articles on interlibrary loan. When the costs are
unusually high, the staff of Interlibrary Loan will ask the requester whether or not the
requester would be willing to pay the costs, or whether the request should be cancelled.
Limitations
It is often difficult and in some cases impossible to borrow certain
kinds of library materials on interlibrary loan, since most libraries either do
not own or do not lend such items. Items generally not obtainable on interlibrary
loan include: rare books, manuscripts, reference books, books about genealogy,
audiovisual materials, entire issues of periodicals, scholarly books published
during the current year or in some cases the previous year, theses, dissertations,
and new textbooks. If you are in need of such items, please speak to the reference
or the interlibrary loan staff.
The interlibrary loan staff must abide by federal copyright law. See the statement
appended to the bottom of the
Book Request Form or the
Periodical Article Request Form.
For additional information, please call Interlibrary Loan at
299-2898, the Reference Department at 299-2305, or email Interlibrary Loan at
interlib@cwpost.liu.edu.
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