ILLiad

UNO Interlibrary Loan Services are available to all UNO faculty, staff, and students. Distance learners are able to request articles and book chapters, but not physical books.

You can request books, CDs, DVDs and manuscripts. You can also request scans of journal articles and book chapters. The service is intended to support research and teaching activities, so please refrain from requesting items for entertainment purposes, such as best-selling novels or graphic novels.

We can't guarantee that we will be able to get everything you request – some items are too rare to be borrowed or simply aren’t available. However, there are a few items that you are unable to request:

• Reserve items or textbooks
• Scans from reserve items or textbooks
• E-books

Processing and shipping times vary widely due to the availability of the item you request, but most books arrive at the library within two weeks, and article and book scans are usually received within three to seven days.

Once an item is available to borrow, you will receive an email from the libill@uno.edu email address. You can pick up the item from the Library Services Desk. Make sure to have your UNO ID card when you borrow the item – we will use your ID card to check the item out to you at the Services Desk. Article and book chapter scans will be sent directly to your UNO email address.

The length of your loan depends entirely on the library that lends the item - they set the due date. Usually, the borrowing period for interlibrary loans are between four to 12 weeks.

Interlibrary loan items can be renewed on the ILLiad homepage or by contacting interlibrary loan staff. If an item is overdue, your library account will be blocked and you will receive email notifications until it is returned. If an item is not returned within four weeks of the due date your ILLiad account will be blocked. Once the item is returned, all of your accounts will be unblocked.

Due to copyright restrictions, articles are only available to be viewed and downloaded for a 30 day period after it is received. Please remember to download and save any PDFs you receive via ILLiad.

System Problems or InterLibrary Loan Questions: InterLibrary Loan office at 504-280-7276 or e-mail to libill@uno.edu
Technical Support Questions: E-mail anytime to libill@uno.edu