Interlibrary Loan

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Interlibrary Loan: Borrowing

Time Required: Requests generally take from one to several weeks to be filled. Most requests are placed via the OCLC interlibrary loan subsystem which requires that we identify up to five potential lenders and then allow each one up to four days to accept or reject our request.

Unfilled Requests: On rare occasions, we are unable to fill requests. This generally occurs when the item is held by only one or two libraries and they are unable to comply with our request. There are a number of reasons why materials are not loaned: they may be checked out, missing, or lost, they may be on reserve, or they may fall into a non-circulating category. You will be notified if your request cannot be filled.

Notification: When a request has been filled and the item has arrived at the law library's interlibrary loan office, we will notify you via your BC e-mail account. Items can be picked up at the Information Desk in the law library. We will hold a borrowed item at the Information Desk for two weeks. After that time it will be returned to the lending library. Requests for faculty members are usually delivered directly to their offices or mailboxes.

Length of Borrowing Period: Borrowing periods range from one to four weeks, depending upon the policy of the lending library. The due date will be clearly indicated on the interlibrary loan book band which is placed around the front cover of each borrowed item. It is possible to request renewals, although they are granted at the discretion of the lending library. Some libraries do not permit renewals for materials borrowed through interlibrary loan. In those cases, the "no renewal" status will be clearly indicated on the book band along with the due date. Please direct renewal requests to the interlibrary loan office at 617-552-4066 or via e-mail. We will contact you to let you know the status of your renewal request.

Loss of Interlibrary Loan Materials: You are responsible for materials which you have taken from the law library. Charges for damaged or lost materials are assessed by the lending library and are the responsibility of the borrowing patron. Loss, damage or failure to return borrowed materials promptly also may result in the forfeiture of interlibrary loan privileges. Materials lost in transit to the law library from the lending library or after they have been returned to the law library by the user will be the responsibility of the law library.

Notice: Warning Concerning Copyright Restrictions: The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specific conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of fair use, that user may be liable for copyright infringement. This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a photocopying order if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the order would violate copyright law. (This information is posted in compliance with U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 37, sec.#201.14(b) (1995).

The library complies with US copyright law and the CONTU Guidelines on Photocopying under Interlibrary Loan Arrangements. To insure compliance, users who submit an online interlibrary loan form must acknowledge that they are aware of copyright restrictions affecting their use of the requested material. In cases where requests from a user violate copyright law, the library will inform the user and attempt to provide alternative access to the information.

Interlibrary Loan: Lending

The law library will lend items or supply copies of articles or documents in its collections to other libraries via interlibrary loan. OCLC member libraries should place requests via the OCLC interlibrary loan subsystem. Non-OCLC libraries may submit requests by mail by completing an ALA interlibrary loan request form and mailing it to:

Interlibrary Loan Office

Boston College Law Library

885 Centre Street

Newton Centre MA 02459

The library supplies materials free of charge to libraries that are members of the New England Law Library Consortium (NELLCO), the Boston Library Consortium (BLC), and the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU.) There is a limit of 30 pages per request. For all other institutions, the fee schedule is as follows:

$10.00 service charge per request

$0.10 per exposure for photocopy or Ariel delivery (limit 30 exposures per request)

$0.20 per exposure for paper copy made from microform

$0.20 per fiche for fiche-to-fiche duplicate (limit 10 fiche per request)

 

 

For questions about interlibrary lending services and policies, contact the interlibrary loan office at 617-552-4066 or via e-mail. The library lends materials, supplies photocopies, and transmits documents electronically only to members of the Boston College Law School community and to other libraries. General document delivery service is not provided to individuals, companies or institutions. Organizations and individuals not affiliated with the law school may wish to investigate services available from other sites which offer fee-based document delivery options. One such service is provided by the Arthur W. Diamond Law Library at Columbia Law School. Visit their web page at http://www.law.columbia.edu/library/services/fee/docdel for more information on services and charges.