Zach S. Henderson Library
*Updated January 2008, courtesy of Ms. Cynthia Frost
In July 2007 the library implemented ILLiad for its Interlibrary Loan (ILL) and Document Delivery services. ILL service is for requesting items not owned by Henderson Library or available via Electronic Journals A to Z list – usually journal articles or books. The link to ILLiad is on the library’s home page in the list on the left side of the screen.
There is a one-time registration when you first enter the ILLiad system. Once registered, you will have an ILLiad account where you can make requests, see the status of current requests, access electronically received photocopies, request renewals on your borrowed items, and see a history of all your requests. In most cases, photocopies of articles will be delivered to you electronically. All returnable items (books, microfilm, etc.) are held at the circulation desk for students to pick up. 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 this 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 the 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 the library’s Electronic Journals A to Z list first for your article availability. 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 ILL requests. Shared accounts are also 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 the 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 and check out for 4 weeks and they are renewable twice. This service can be used to obtain materials for research, classroom, or personal use. Students are required to use this service whenever possible, rather than ILLiad, to obtain books not owned by Henderson Library.
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 patrons 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
681-5405 8-5 M-F
After hours – 681-5645 or 681-5647
*Distance Learning students are registered this semester, do not come to Statesboro for any classes, and live more than 30 miles from Statesboro.
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