Sign in to Interlibrary Loan to request books, articles, document delivery, and more from other libraries.
Current students, faculty (including emeritus and retired) and staff with a valid Boston College ID can request items through ILL. Members of the Boston College Law School Community should refer to this guide for instruction about placing ILL requests.
Faculty members may designate an ILL proxy. Proxy users should indicate the name of the faculty member they are requesting items for in the note field of the ILL request form.
Interlibrary loan is not available to alumni, guest borrowers, or fee-card holders.
Loans may include articles, books, book chapters, physical media, dissertations, maps, etc. Occasionally some items are not available for loan due to copyright restrictions, institutional policy or item condition. Before submitting scan requests, please consult our Copyright guidelines for InterLibrary Loan.
Articles are usually received within 1–2 days and books in 5-10 business days. However, obtaining items that are rare, recently published or in high demand may take longer. To expedite the process, please make sure the information you submit via the ILL Request Form is accurate.
You will be notified by e-mail when a requested item arrives. Items can be picked up at each patron's preferred pickup location, selected in the ILL Request Form.
You will be notified via email when an article or book chapter has been scanned and is available. To obtain the article or chapter, click on the link provided in the email and log into your ILL account. Once in your account, select Electronic Articles Received. Please note that access to scans is limited to 30 days.
Loan periods are established by the lending library. All due dates are noted on the label.
Borrowed items are subject to recall by the lending library. Any restrictions established by the lending library will be indicated on the label.
No renewals are granted for physical items borrowed through ILL.
Users are responsible for all costs associated with lost or damaged materials. Charges for lost items are assessed by the lending library.
