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Textbooks @ ISU

This guide shares information about course materials and textbooks to support your academic success at ISU

Interlibrary Loan

If a book is not available through Milner Library or I-Share and is not an obvious textbook title, you can try requesting it through Interlibrary Loan (ILL). This is a FREE service!

Milner staff cannot fill Interlibrary loan requests for books with titles that are clearly textbooks (e.g. Introduction to Psychology) for several reasons:

  • Interlibrary loan books have a short checkout time and often don't allow renewals.
  • Interlibrary loan only shows library staff if a library owns a book and not whether the book can go to other libraries.
  • Interlibrary loan book requests may take a number of weeks for other libraries to process and may be cancelled.

 The Make an ILL Request with a Citation help video shows how to request a book from interlibrary loan.