Carnegie Mellon Libraries: User Services: Interlibrary Loan: What can/can't I get?

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What can I get?

Interlibrary loan typically can provide:
- Copies of articles from journals, newspapers, and other publications.
  - Average turnaround time is 7 days for copies.
- Most books, microforms, theses, and some dissertations.
  - Average turnaround time is 8 days for books.

What can't I get?

Multimedia are difficult to obtain by interlibrary loan.
Interlibrary loan typically cannot provide:
- Reference books
- Entire issues or volumes of periodicals
- Some newspapers
- Software
- Rare books or manuscripts

  April 16, 2002 -- http://www.library.cmu.edu/Services/ILL/cancannot.html
  Joan Stein, Head of Access Services, joan@andrew.cmu.edu
  © 2002 Carnegie Mellon Libraries