My name is Jennifer Stewart. I am the 
Outreach Librarian here at Hobby Memorial 
Library, 
and today I am going to talk to you about 
Interlibrary Loans. Interlibrary Loan or ILL is a 
service that allows 
CTC students, faculty, and staff to borrow items 
that our library doesn't have from other 
libraries. 
Making an Interlibrary Loan request is easy.  
Just find the book or article you want in our 
catalog and then click the 
"Request Item through Interlibrary Loan" button 
and fill out the form. Want to know more?  Let's 
get started! 
So to get to the catalog you click on this button 
right here, 
and then suppose I'm looking for C. S. Lewis's 
novel, "Till We Have Faces", so I'll type in "Till 
We Have Faces".
and I'm looking for the print book
It shows that we have four books that come up 
and none of them
are "Until We Have Face"
So I'm going to go up here to "Libraries 
Worldwide" and click on the box.
If you're searching for something
where the title is something we defintely don't 
have any results of, it ask if you want to go 
here immediately.
So now, it's searched all the libraries worldwide 
to try to find "Till We Have Faces" ceyhan 
You can see here, the first result after the book 
that the library has is C. S. Lewis's novel, "Till 
We Have Faces."
So I'm going to click on this link.
We don't have it, so right up here I'm given the 
option to request the item through interlibrary 
loan, and I'm going to click on the link right here
which will send me to this form.
Generally speaking an interelibrary loan will 
take at least one to two weeks to get here.
So it's good practice to pick a month,
you know, from when you need it.
If you need a particular edtition, you can 
specify that here; I'm going to leave it on "Any 
edition". 
You type in your first name,
your last name,
your 15-digit CTC ID number on your student 
ID,
your e-mail address—
supposing our fictional Sam Larsen is a CDC 
faculty member,
and then your phone number,
and then you hit submit.
Once you submit your form, you'll get a results 
page that looks like this.  The green means it's 
been submitted successfully.  You'll get three e-
from the library after you've done this: the first 
once we've processed your request and 
submitted it to other libraries, the second once
another library has agreed to send the book to 
us, and a third once we've received the book 
and processed it and it's ready for you to pick 
With interlibrary loan articles, this is often done 
electronically, and, instead of getting the three 
e-mails,
you'll get the first e-mail saying that we've 
submitted the request for you to other libraries 
and then then you'll get a second e-mail
containing a link to the electronic article file or 
containing the article attached to it, depending 
on how the library sends the article to us.
So that's interlibrary loan, it's a really great 
resource if you're working on any kind of 
research paper or project,
and hopefully this has kind of demystified the 
process,
and you'll give it a try.
