Brooklyn Periodicals Department: INTERLIBRARY LOANS

To rquest material from another library go to ILLIAD and register.

 If you need assistance in processing your order, have questions or comments, please contact the ILL Staff:

Need a book not located in the LIU Brooklyn Campus catalog? No worries!

The Interlibrary Loan department (ILL) of the Brooklyn Campus is here to facilitate students, facutly and staff in obtaining materials not available at the Brooklyn Campus.  

Through our interlibrary loan service request can be made to other libraries holding the material you need. We will have the item sent to the Brooklyn campus from one of the other LIU campuses via courier, or a participating OCLC institution. OCLC is a nationwide computerized network of more than 3,000 libraries. Using OCLC we can locate bibliographic information for more than 55 million records, determine which libraries have a particular item and request it using the World Wide Web.

Before you submit an interlibrary loan form for a book request you need to check the , LIU Libraries' Online Catalog. You also may need to check the Card Catalog for books published before 1980.

• Please check the LIU Brooklyn Campus library holdings and the online databases to verify that the item you are searching for is not in our collection before submitting a request to ILL. 

• A limit of 10 interlibrary loans books per user my be checked out of the library

• Please enter as accurately as possible information about the author, title, publisher, and date of publication. If you want a specific edition, please enter information about the specific edition.

• The due date is determined by the lending institution.

• Please return all books to the Brooklyn InterLibrary Loan Department on or before the date written on the slip attached to the loaned book. Those patrons who repeatedly return books late will lose their loan privileges.

• Renewal requests of books can be made over the phone. Renewals are dependent on the policies of the lending institution and the lending institution has the right to recall its materials at any time. This should be done at least five days before the due date. 

• Overdue books will not be renewed. Please call (718) 488-1679. If another user has placed a hold on the book, it cannot be renewed.

• Please fill out the Web form completely, and be sure to enter your name, your LIU library barcode, your LIU e-mail address, and the book title for your request to be sent and processed

• The patron is responsible for overdue fees imposed by the lending institution. For out-of-print books, the fee will be determined on a title by title basis.

•  For journals and newspapers, enter data about the bibliographic citation into the appropriate fields. This includes information about the author(s), title of the article, volume number, date, issue number, pages and the name of the journal or newspaper.

• We cannot process request with abbrevations . If you are not sure about the exact name of the journal, ask a reference librarian at the Reference Desk. If filled out incorrectly, we will try to contact you as early as possible. 

• Please supply the source of your information. That is, please provide the title of the database or index.

• Please supply your e-mail address and your telephone number so we can contact you when your articles have arrived. 

• Materials not picked up will be discarded after four weeks. 

Location: 

LLC 409 (near the elevators)

Summer Hours

Monday-Thursday 9am-10pm

Saturday                  9am-6pm

Friday & Sunday    Closed

Normal Hours of Operation:

Mon., Wed.,Thur.  8am-10pm

Tuesday                 9am-10pm

Friday                      9am-5pm

Saturday                 9am-6pm

Sunday                   11am- 5pm

(Subject to change with summer terms, intersession and holidays)