[ Policy | Charges | Payment | How to Request | Collection of item | Enquiry ]
Interlibrary Loan is a service provided by Access Services Division to access publications and books not held by the Library. Through interlibrary co-operation, loans from libraries and organisations, local and abroad, are arranged on behalf of the requester. Most libraries lend only books and conference proceedings. They will not lend journals and audiovisual materials.
This service is available to NTU academic staff, administrative staff, graduate students and final-year students. Loan requests are restricted to materials that are related to work, teaching, research or respective final year project.
Please check the requests against the NTU Library Catalogue before submitting the request form.
Please note that interlibrary loan requests are not reflected in your borrower's record. The Library will inform you of our follow-up action via email.
Policy for Interlibrary Loan
- Borrowers have the option of indicating in their request forms where they prefer to pick up their interlibrary loan items in seven locations: Art, Design and Media Library, Asian Communication Resource Centre, Business Library, Chinese Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Lee Wee Nam Library and Wang Guangwu Library.
- Borrowers are expected to collect the item from the Service Desk of the Library that they have indicated in their request forms within 3 days of notification. After which, an item that is not collected will be promptly returned to the lending library.
- Borrowers are to ensure that the item is returned in the same condition as it was first issued.
- The item must be returned promptly to the Service Desk where they have borrowed the item by the due date.
- Due to the high demand for this service, request for renewals are not allowed and borrowers are limited to two interlibrary loan items at any one time.
- Loan period of most of the items is 2 weeks.
Charges
- No charges are imposed for local loans, but requesters will be held responsible for any damage, overdue fines or loss of books borrowed on their behalf.
- Overseas loans charges are calculated based on the interlibrary loan fee levied by the lending library and the postal charges incurred.
- The Library will subsidise overseas loans requests for students and staff with no access to research/ teaching materials funds. Academic staff are encouraged to use their research funds to pay for interlibrary loans but may also choose “Charge to Library” if their research fund does not have a budget for this service.
Payment
You may select 1 of the following options when you request for overseas items:
- Charge to your project fund vote.
- Charge to the Library. The Library will pay for overseas loans requested by eligible staff and students, subject to request quotas, availability of allocated Library funds and the requester's access to research funds.
- Self payment: Pay by Cashcard, NETS or cheque (payable to "Nanyang Technological University").
How to Request for this Service?
Note that all interlibrary loan requests must be submitted using one of the following methods:
A. By Submission via Stafflink
Academic or Administrative staff may submit their requests via StaffLink (Resource Request> Library Services > Interlibrary Loan).
Staff requesting for loans of Chinese books should submit request via email. Please send the emails to InterLibraryLoans@ntu.edu.sg.
B. By Completing the Online ILL Form
If you are a Graduate student or a Final Year student, complete the ILL form (MS Word format) and email it to InterLibraryLoans@ntu.edu.sg.
Collection of item
When the item arrives, you will be notified through email. You can then collect the item at the Service Desk of the Library that you have indicated in your request form.
Collection time:
Opening hours of NTU library: Semester / Vacation
Enquiry
For further enquiries, please email circulation@ntu.edu.sg or call 6790 4691.
