Zach S. Henderson Library
InterLibrary Loan, Document Delivery, and GIL Express services for
Georgia Southern Students and Faculty
August 2008
Henderson Library utilizes ILLiad for Interlibrary Loan (ILL) and Document Delivery services. ILL service is for requesting items – usually journal articles or books – not owned by Henderson Library or available via Electronic Journals A to Z list. The link to ILLiad is on the Library’s home page in the list on the left side of the screen.
§ To complete the one-time registration for ILLiad, click on “First Time Users.” Once registered, you will be able to make requests, see status of current requests, access electronically received photocopies, request renewals on borrowed ILL items, and see a history of all the requests you have made.
§ In most cases, photocopies of articles are delivered to you electronically via your ILLiad account. Books are mailed to faculty offices unless otherwise specified. Students are required to pick up all returnable items (books, microfilm, etc.) from the circulation desk. An e-mail is sent to you when your ILL material is received.
§ For Interlibrary Loan (ILL) requests, we ask that they be for materials to support Georgia Southern teaching and research. Textbooks and other required course materials will not be supplied through the ILL service.
Faculty and Distance Learning students* receive an additional service via ILLiad – Document Delivery. They may request books from Henderson Library’s collection and articles from Library’s print journals. Books will be checked out to the user and mailed to the faculty office or distance learning student’s home. Articles will be delivered electronically and are accessible from the requestor’s ILLiad account. Check Library’s Electronic Journals A to Z list first for your article availability. (Hint: search by journal title keyword.) Any journal article that is already accessible to you electronically will not be supplied via the Document Delivery service.
The ILLiad FAQ includes instructions for faculty to make an additional “shared” account when they have student assistants make their ILLiad requests or a research project with several participants. Shared accounts are eligible for Document Delivery service.
GIL Express is a service of the University System of Georgia – 35 academic libraries. The link to this service is also on Library’s homepage. From the GIL Universal Catalog, using your Library account, you can request a book from any USG library be sent here or to any other USG library for you to pick up and check out. The books usually arrive in 2 to 3 days, check out for 4 weeks and can be renewed twice. This service may be used to obtain books for any reason – research, classroom, or personal use. Students are asked to use this service whenever possible, rather than ILLiad, to obtain books not owned by Henderson Library. (Distance Learners living near another USG library can use GIL Express and pick up their books at that library.) Faculty members have the option of using ILLiad to obtain USG books – but the checkout period will be shorter. GIL Express books are not mailed to faculty offices.
There is no charge to the Georgia Southern user for obtaining materials by any of these three services. However, you will need to pay for any lost or damaged materials and some USG libraries charge late fees in the GIL Express service.
<<Georgia Southern Henderson Library users can see ALL their library requests, transactions, and checked-out materials whether in-house, GIL Express, Document Delivery or ILL by accessing their two accounts – their Library account and their ILLiad account.>>
ILL/Document Delivery office information:
2nd floor Henderson Library
912-478-5405 8-5 M-F
After hours – 478-5645 or 478-5647
*Distance Learning students are registered for current semester, do not come to Statesboro for any classes, and live more than 30 miles from Statesboro. All ILL and Document Delivery returnable items are mailed to their homes with a postage-paid-return-label.
Current 8/06/08
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