If you have used this service before, you may go straight to the request forms:

• Book Request
  
  
• Article Request

If not, please read the following before submitting your request.

What is Interlibrary Loan (ILL)?

• Interlibrary loans (ILLs) are materials borrowed from libraries outside Mercy College. For something from another Mercy branch please contact Circulation.

Who may use this service?

• We will take ILL requests from any current Mercy student, faculty or staff.  When the book or article arrives we contact you at the e-mail address or telephone number you provide.  If you fill out a card, take care that your e-mail address is legible and that our reply will get through your mail filter.

• If you’re in a Mercy library please ask the Reference librarian for help identifying titles that we have or can get.

• Articles-by-mail:  If a current student is not coming to Mercy College each week, and lives at least 25 miles away from Mercy, the main library can mail an ILL article to her home (not e-mail) address.

How do I submit my requests and how many are allowed?

• ILL requests are taken at the main library (Dobbs Ferry) Reference Desk on request cards -- OR you may send a request to the Interlibrary Loan department via e-mail.

• You may submit up to 10 ILL requests a week online or offline. Your request(s) will be sent directly to the Interlibrary loan office at the Dobbs Ferry Library. Most books or articles can take about two weeks to arrive, but medical journal articles average one week.  The library absorbs the costs.
  
  
• Make sure that Mercy doesn’t own the item:  check the catalog for a book title, or the Periodicals Locator for a journal title and year.  Then choose the interlibrary loan form for:
  
  

Book Request

Article Request

Questions?

• Contact the ILL department at 914-674-7580 or send an email to libill@mercy.edu