Interlibrary Loan Borrowing
The Interlibrary Loan Borrowing service allows you to obtain materials that are not available from Joyner Library.
Eligibility
In order to use this service, you must be a current ECU undergraduate or graduate student, staff member, faculty member, or a retired ECU faculty or staff member with an ECU 1 Card. Current members of the Friends of Joyner Library and participants in ECU’s Lifelong Learning program are also eligible. Other affiliated users of Joyner Library (including ECU alumni, cooperative borrowers, and NC resident borrowers) are not eligible for the Interlibrary Loan Borrowing service.
Available Materials
Eligible patrons may request anything that Joyner Library does not own, including books, articles (from journals, newspapers, or magazines), dissertations, theses, CDs, DVDs, maps, government documents, bound journals, archival manuscripts, microforms. Items owned by Joyner but that are checked out, missing, lost, on order, or not yet received may also be requested. Please note, though, while we’ll attempt to borrow anything, we cannot guarantee that other libraries will provide it for your use.
Costs and Limits
Joyner Library pays all costs involved for this service from funds received from tuition, state government funding, and donations. The library does not limit the number of requests or the types of materials that can be requested by eligible patrons.
Making Requests
Login to ILLiad to place requests. Select the request form that best fits the material you want and enter as much of the citation as you can (title, author, publication date, etc.). If you have the ISSN, ISBN, or OCLC number, of if you have a specific edition, language, or media type in mind, please be sure to provide that information. If your citation has abbreviations in the journal title, please spell it out if you know it.
Process
We attempt to locate and obtain your desired material from a network of over 10,000 libraries world-wide. If those libraries are unable to provide the material, we ask other possible providers, such as historical associations, professional organizations, government agencies, corporations, museums, and think tanks. We also purchase some materials from publishers or vendors.
Delivery/Shipping
Most article/chapter requests will be delivered by email to you as a link to a PDF file saved on our web server. Books and media materials will be made available to you at Joyner’s circulation desk whenever the library is open. If you would prefer to have materials sent to the Music Library, please contact the ILL staff. If you live outside of Pitt County, contact the ILL staff to discuss the possibility of UPS delivery and visit the Document Delivery web page for more information.
Due Date and Fines
Due dates are set by the lending libraries, so they can vary for each item you request from weeks to months. The label we place on each item states the due date; you may also check ILLiad or contact the ILL office if you are uncertain of the due date or want a renewal. We do not charge overdue fines for late ILL items, but we will suspend your ILL privileges, block your circulation privileges, and forward lost item invoices to you from the lending library.
Special Services
Laupus Health Sciences Library
All ECU students, faculty, and staff who are part of the Division of Health Sciences (Brody School of Medicine, School of Dental Medicine, College of Nursing, and College of Allied Health Sciences), should request materials from Laupus Health Sciences Library on the ECU medical campus. Other ECU students, faculty, and staff may request items owned by Laupus library using Joyner Library’s ILLiad request system. Anyone may visit Laupus Library to consult its collections. For more information on Laupus Library’s services and collections, please visit the Laupus Library web page.
Borrowing from other Libraries in North Carolina
All ECU students, faculty, and staff can directly borrow materials from any of the other 16 UNC system libraries via the University of North Carolina Cooperative Library Lending Agreement and from select community colleges and private institutions in the region with which we have other agreements. Learn more about using libraries through the Cooperative Library Lending Agreements.