Digital Humanities

Requesting Items Through Interlibrary Loan (ILL)

While the UMD Libraries own millions of books and other materials, we may not own the specific item that you need at the time you need it. Often your individual assignment will require you to access research materials that are highly specific and may fall outside of our general collection. The good news is that the UMD Libraries has a vast network of library partners both within our Big Ten Academic Alliance and within the general apparatus of research libraries around the world. This is called Interlibrary Loan which is often shorted and referred to as "ILL (eye-el-el)." As a student you too have access to this HUGE world of material! It is simple and most importantly, it is FREE

The videos below provide a walkthrough of the following process of how to access material through Interlibrary Loan (ILL).

Please see the walkthroughs below for information about how to request items through ILL based on the format (books, videos, articles, etc.).