Meaning of interlibrary loan | Babel Free

Definitions

A loan of an item (such as a book, article, or sound recording) between two library systems or similar institutions.

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“Only one university in the country had the book they needed but they were able to get it sent to their local library via interlibrary loan.”

“The Summon discovery service, as implemented at Penn State, prioritizes retrieval of online and locally owned material; therefore, it was not unexpected to observe a reduction in interlibrary loan borrowing requests by undergraduates.”

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