Interlibrary Loan
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a library service provided for patrons to obtain research materials (or photocopies of materials) or books from other participating libraries in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia.
If you need an article or a book that Sims Library does not have, we will be able to borrow it for you, at no cost to you. Students should never pay for an article, but should use the ILL service. Please check to be certain that Sims Library does not own the material before you request it through Interlibrary Loan.
To use this service, students must first create an account
Sims Library offers this service as a supplement to the library's collection, not as a substitute to the collection. Every effort should be made to exhaust Sims' print and electronic resources before utilizing Interlibrary Loan.
The terms of the Interlibrary Loan service are set by Louisiana and National Interlibrary Loan codes and regulations of the individual lending libraries and document delivery providers.
The ILL Department is a unit of the Access Services Department.