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18. Getting Started with Interlibrary Loan

Your instructor has allowed you to choose your paper topics and you want to get started researching the topic. Sitting down to start searching you find a few book chapters and articles that look helpful. Unfortunately, a few of them are not in the library collection. You had heard in orientation about the possibility of getting articles and books from other libraries but you don’t remember how or where to go.

Where do you go next? You decide to ask the library chat, that will probably be the fastest. https://library.ucalgary.ca/ [opens link in new tab].

The library chat service suggests that you use the interlibrary loan page located under the Services tab on the library homepage. https://library.ucalgary.ca/interlibrary/[opens link in new tab].

They also point out that you can choose interlibrary loan more directly from your search by signing into your account before beginning to search and the interlibrary loan option will be an option on the item record page. Make sure to click “Search beyond UofC Library Collections” in the right hand filters to get as many results as possible.

To continue the story, choose from an option below:

You try to use the interlibrary loan link in the search results.

Go to the interlibrary loan page.

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