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About Requesting Items

Request Guidelines

  • All loans are subject to recall.
  • Requests to be shipped via Federal Express will be billed to your account number so please include it with your request.
  • We lend up to five volumes/reels per request.
  • If you submitted your request via OCLC or RLG, please use the same system for renewals.
  • Please state the maximum cost your institution is willing to pay. See the fee schedule for our standard charges.
  • Documents to U can only lend to not-for-profit institutions. If you are contacting us from a for-profit institution, please use ESTIS to process your request.

Request Formats

We accept requests in a variety of formats including:

Shipping

We ship materials via:

  • U.S. Mail (Photocopies—First Class)
  • UPS (Books)
  • Air Mail (International Loans)
  • Federal Express (billed to borrowing library's FedEx account)
  • Ariel
  • Fax
  • By other means as prearranged

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