Interlibrary Loan

Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a subsidized service provided by UNLV Libraries that supports the scholarly research and curricular needs of current UNLV faculty, staff, and students by obtaining materials from libraries worldwide. ILL supplements resources owned or licensed by UNLV Libraries.

Materials include:

• Articles
• Books
• Book chapters
• Microforms
• Video, DVDs, and CDs
• Dissertations and theses 

Items borrowed on Interlibrary Loan are subject to the loan policies and due date of the lending library; usually 4-12 weeks loan period. 

You are responsible for borrowed items and must abide by the rules, guidelines and polices of the lending library.

Document Delivery Service (DDS) is a service that provides scans of articles and book chapters from the UNLV Libraries print collections (including journals, books, and other materials) to current UNLV students, faculty, and staff.

Requested materials are scanned and posted to a secure server. You will receive an email with a link to access, download, or print the document. There is currently no charge for this service.

• Processing times vary depending on request volume.
• A maximum of 10 article requests per user will be processed per day. Requests exceeding this limit will be placed in a queue and processed in order of receipt on the next business day.
• Requests must be for UNLV-related research. Materials for personal use should be copied independently.
• Course Reserves are intended for physical checkout; DDS does not apply to reserve items.

ILL items may be renewed once from the original due date, depending on approval from the lending institution. You can request a renewal by logging into the ILL system.

To request a renewal:

1. Log in to your ILL account and locate the item you wish to renew.
   • If the item is eligible, the Renew button will be active.
   • If it is not eligible, the button will be greyed out and unavailable.
2. Click the Renew button.
   • If it’s too early to renew, a message will appear letting you know.
3. You will receive an automated email within a few days indicating whether your renewal request has been approved or denied.

• It is your responsibility to read and comply with the University Libraries borrowing guidelines. Please read these guidelines before using our services. 
• ILL items may be subject to recall by lending libraries.
• Borrowers are responsible for keeping track of the due dates. Email notices are courtesy only. Failure to receive a notice does not absolve the borrower from any fees.
• You are responsible for all ILL items checked out on your account until they are returned to the library and cleared from your account. 
• Instructors: You may not put ILL items on Course Reserve. It is against lending libraries' ILL policies.

• ILL materials are fined at a rate of $1.00 per day per item.
• If you do not return ILL materials within 3 weeks, you will be blocked from borrowing any other items as well as from MyUNLV.
• Please do NOT remove the paper book strap. Losing the book strap can cause delays in the returning process.
• Fines should be paid at the Circulation Desk or over the phone (702-895-2111).
• While you are waiting for renewal request approval, there won't be any overdue fines.

We can send books owned by the University Libraries, as well as books borrowed from other libraries through the ILL system. We will ship materials to your home directly via FedEx Ground.

• This service is offered to currently enrolled students, faculty, and staff who are fully remote.
• A maximum of 5 books can be requested at a time.
• We will pay for the outbound shipment. You must pay for the return shipment. 

Return address:

University of Nevada Las Vegas
Lied library - Interlibrary Loan
4505 S Maryland Parkway
Las Vegas NV 89154-7006

UNLV Libraries works with lending libraries to ensure that documents delivered through Interlibrary Loan are provided as OCR-enabled PDFs (screen reader compatible). Our goal is to deliver requested materials as efficiently as possible, with most articles and chapters provided electronically within approximately 12 hours. To achieve this we use unmediated automated workflows, meaning an item is delivered to the requester without staff intervention. As a result, a small amount of electronic documents may come from resource providers who do not provide OCR. If you would like to confirm whether a document has been delivered as an OCR-enabled PDF, please contact Interlibrary Loan at illiad@unlv.edu

Interlibrary Loan staff cannot determine whether a document meets the accessibility requirements for a specific use case. Questions regarding accessibility needs should be directed to the Office of Accessibility Resources.

• Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery reserve the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in our judgment, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of copyright law.
• Placing article/chapter requests through the ILL system implies that your request is in copyright compliance. 
• Requestors are responsible for compliance with copyright law and the CONTU Guidelines 
• The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted materials.
  • The full text of the copyright law can be found in the United States Code in the section entitled Title 17 - Copyright.
• For more information, please visit UNLV's Copyright Information page and Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement.