Intercampus Loan
Service
(ICL)
You can have circulating materials available at any Montgomery College
campus library sent to the campus library of your choice. Reference books, magazines,
journals, newspapers, and reserve items are not loaned between
campuses.
Requesting books from other campuses is now done entirely through our online
catalog at http://www.mclibrary.org.
After you search for a title in the online catalog, bring up the individual
title record. To the right of the screen, you will see an Actions
box. The first item under Actions is Make a Request
where you can request an item from another campus library. Items normally take 3-4 days to arrive
and we will notify you when they arrive.
Interlibrary Loan
Service (ILL)
You can also arrange to borrow materials that the Montgomery College
Libraries do not
own through our interlibrary loan (ILL) service. This service is restricted
to current MC students, faculty and staff.
Community patrons cannot request ILL service
through Montgomery
College and should go through their local public library or school for this
service.
Forms for ILL
To request an ILL, submit a form online. Fill out the form as completely and
as accurately as possible as this will help us to obtain the material for
you. Make sure you indicate your College affiliation, including your
MC ID number beginning with M,
and provide contact information.
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If you are requesting a
book, please use this
form.
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If you are requesting
an article, please use this
form.
Interlibrary loan is
centralized at the Rockville Campus Library. You can call us at 240-567-7118 or send an
e-mail to Interlibrary Loan. Requests can be submitted at any time but interlibrary loan staff hours are limited,
8:30 am to 5pm.
The policies followed in
providing ILL are based on the policies of the
Maryland Interlibrary Loan Organization (MILO), centrally located at Baltimore's Enoch
Pratt Library, and on
acceptable copyright provisions.
Patrons should not expect
to obtain the following types of materials through ILL:
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Titles held by the
Montgomery College Libraries (check the
MC Library Catalog)
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Entire issues of
periodicals
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More than 3 articles from
the same periodical
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Copies of periodical
articles owned by any of the 3 campus libraries unless the issue
has been declared missing
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Most audiovisual materials
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Most reference
titles/materials
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Current bestsellers or
new, popular titles
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Most doctoral
dissertations and/or masters theses
Every effort is made to
obtain the material at no cost but a fee may apply. You have
the option to specify the amount, if any, you are willing to pay. If you
decline to pay a fee and we try to get the materials from 5 libraries, we will consider that
we have discharged
our responsibility and will not request the item again.
A personal check made
out to the lending library is due at the time of pickup of the material.
We estimate that this process
takes a minimum of two weeks but may take more. A maximum of 10 requests per week
per patron will be processed. Additional requests may
be processed as time and resources permit.
The lending library also
determines the loan period and renewal policy for its materials. Most
loans are for 2 to 3 weeks but may be longer. We can request an extension
before the item
is due. In addition, some libraries restrict certain rare items to library
use only.
