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Interlibrary Loan Instructions for Journal Staff

Interlibrary Loan Instructions for Journal Staff

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Your Journal Editor Will Instruct You to Either ....

Submit ILLs Under Your Own ILLiad Account Submit ILLs Under the Journal's ILLiad Account
  1. Create your own account with a username & password.
  2. Register with your name, Go Card number as your ID, your email & telephone information.
  1. Submit requests under your own account.
  2. For Forgotten Username, contact the ILL Office (law-ill@georgetown.edu, 202-662-9154, M-F 9-4)
  3. For forgotten password, on the ILLiad page, click on Forgotten Password? link & check your email, or contact the ILL Office.

Your editor will provide you with the journal's ILLiad username & password.

Editors: Log into the journal's ILLiad account, check under Tools > Change User Information for any contact information that needs to be updated, especially the email address.

For questions about journal ILLiad accounts, contact the ILL Office (law-ill@georgetown.edu, 202-662-9154 M-F 9-4).

 
In the ILLiad request form, within the Use of Material field, include your journal's name. In the ILLiad request form, within the Use of Material field, include your name, and/or any internal notations required by your editor.
You will be the point of contact and shall receive emailed questions, arrival notices, reminders and overdue messages. The journal editor will be the point of contact and shall receive emailed questions, arrival notices, reminders and overdue messages. The editor may then forward any relevant messages to you.
ILL books that arrive will be held under your name at the Circulation Desk. ILL books that arrive are delivered into the journal's mailbox located behind the Office of Journal Administration's reception desk (Ste 170, Williams). If the book is not in the mailbox area, then check in your journal office, or contact the editor.
Copies of pages are deposited electronically into your ILLiad account. Copies of pages are deposited electronically into the journal's ILLiad account. You may not receive an arrival notice, but you can check the account to see if a file has been deposited.
You are responsible for returning borrowed ILLs. They can be returned to the Circulation Desk, Library Book Drop boxes, or return bins in the Office of Journal Administration. The journal is responsible for returning borrowed ILLs. They can be returned into the book return bins in the Office of Journal Administration, Circulation Desk, or Library Box Drop boxes.
ILL materials should be held in your possession. Do not keep them in your journal office. Do not loan them to another journal staff. ILL materials should be housed in the journal office and not circulated to a journal staff for non-office use.

Requesting a Book

How to Submit Your Request

  • After searching through the Law Library's catalog system and if you are presented with a "Request this item through Interlibrary Loan (ILL)" option, or
  • Search for the book title through WorldCat and submit via "Click here to request via ILL" option. See the tutorial: Borrowing from Non-Georgetown Institutions, or
  • Fill out a blank ILLiad Book / Physical Item request form.
ILLiad Form Field What to Enter
Authors/Editors (required field) If there is neither, then enter "N/A".
Title (required field) Enter or copy title as cited. Do not abbreviate the title yourself nor guess the full title if found abbreviated.
Date of Publication &/or Edition Enter especially if you need a certain version. If nothing is entered, the more widely held version will be borrowed.
Use of Material (required field)
  • Enter your name or internal office notation if submitting request under journal's ILLiad account.
  • Enter your journal's name if submitting request under your ILLiad account.
  • Enter other helpful information such as "Need vol. 2"

Requesting a Copy of a Journal or Newspaper Article

Fill out a blank ILLiad Scan of Pages request form with the following information:

ILLiad Form Field What to Enter
Periodical title (required field) Enter or copy title as cited. Do not abbreviate the title yourself nor guess the full title if found abbreviated.
Volume
  • In Bluebook citation style, this is the number typically preceding the title of a consecutively paginated journal.
  • In other citation style, the volume may be found following the journal title and preceding a parenthetical issue number and pagination, e.g. 6 (2): 124-132.
Year (required field) For newspaper article, enter the full date, i.e. month, date and year.
Inclusive Pages (required field) If you only have the starting page, then enter as "124-end." Otherwise, just that one page may be supplied.
Article Title (required field) Enter or copy title as cited. Do not abbreviate the title yourself nor guess the full title if found abbreviated.
Use of Material (required field)
  • Enter your name or internal office notation if submitting request under journal's ILLiad account.
  • Enter your journal's name if submitting request under your ILLiad account.

Requesting a Copy of Pages Out of a Book, Reporter, etc.

Fill out a blank ILLiad Scan of Pages form with the following information:

ILLiad Form Field What to Enter
Title (required field) Enter or copy title as cited. Do not abbreviate the title yourself nor guess the full title if found abbreviated.
Year (required field) Enter publication year or edition, If nothing is entered, then the most widely held version may be used.
Inclusive Pages (required field)
  • Enter "See below".
  • Enter necessary information in Article/Chapter Title field.
  • Do not insert lengthy pagination information into this field.
Article/Chapter Title (required field)

Enter chapter or section title if available. Include lengthy pagination info into this field.

  • Example for book chapter: "Title pg, copyright pg, pp.32-45" or "Title pg, copyright pg, Chap. 6"
  • Example for encyclopedia/dictionary: "Title pg, copyright pg, entry for Search & Seizure"
  • Example for legal reporter: "Title pg, copyright pg, § 32.15"
  • Example for statute: "§§ 40-23-191 through 40-23-199 (1975), eff. Oct. 1, 2015"
  • Example for statute-at-large: "2014 N.C. Sess. Laws 767"
Use of Material (required field)
  • Enter your name or internal office notation if submitting request under your journal's ILLiad account.
  • Enter your journal's name if submitting request under your ILLiad account.

Or, fill out the ILLiad Book / Physical Item Form with the following information: 

ILLiad Form Field What to Enter
Use of Material (required field)
  • Enter your name or internal office notation if submitting request under your journal's ILLiad account.
  • Enter your juornal's name if submitting request under your ILLiad account.
  • Enter copying instruction or citation:
    • Example for book: "Title pg, copyright pg, pp.32-45" or "Title pg, copyright pg, Chap. 6"
    • Example for encyclopedia/ dictionary: "Title pg, copyright pg, entry for Search & Seizure"
    • Example for statute: "§§ 40-23-191 through 40-23-199 (1975), eff. Oct. 1, 2015"
    • Example for statute-at-large: "2014 N.C. Sess. Laws 767"