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The Rensselaer Libraries' Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Service attempts to provide interlibrary service to other libraries as summarized below.
Individual researchers seeking to use materials from Rensselaer's collections who are unable to come to the campus or to qualify for personal borrowing privileges must contact their local library's interlibrary loan service for assistance.
Loan of Books and Other General Circulating Materials
| Affiliated Libraries* | | No charge for standard surface delivery (US Mail - Book Rate) |
| Unaffiliated Libraries | | $ 20.00 per loan (Requesting library arranges for delivery.) |
Circulating items are loaned for 4 weeks from the date of shipment. Loan renewals must be requested in advance of loan expiration. Libraries failing to return items after loan expiration will be subject to billing procedures and loss of borrowing privileges.
Audio visual or electronic materials, journals, maps, microforms, reference books, or Rensselaer theses are not available for loan.
* Any library listed or participating in any of the following: the ALA's American Libraries or SLA's Directory of Special Libraries and Information centers or either a member of the Capital District Library Council or user of OCLC's Interlibrary Loan network.
Photocopies of Articles and Other Brief Publications
The below photocopy charges apply for materials between 1 and 30 pages. Requests for copies of materials over 30 pages are considered on a case by case basis. Delivery is either by US Mail or ARIEL. Information about special handling and and ordering theses appears lower on the page.
Affiliated Libraries (without reciprocal agreements)
Separate Billing: $20.00.
Rensselaer Theses
The Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Service will provide cost estimates for making a single photocopy of any Rensselaer thesis. A few theses containing large scale drawings and/or
brittle paper cannot be photocopied. Supplemental parts of theses, e.g. video and audio excerpts, also will not be duplicated.
Costs include a $15.00 handling fee plus a $ .20 per page photocopying fee. (A typical master's thesis is about 125 pages; a typical PhD thesis is about 275 pages.) Air Mail delivery is extra. Allow 2 - 4 weeks for delivery. Libraries will be billed directly or charged via OCLC's IFM system.
PhD theses dating from 1950 to the present also may be ordered from University Microfilm International's (UMI) Dissertation Abstract Service.
Special Handling
RUSH PROCESSING - $25.00 per request plus regular charges (includes US MAIL or ARIEL delivery.) The Rensselaer Libraries will retrieve and ready for shipment, if available, requested materials within 24 hours or receipt of a request received Monday through Friday between 8:30 AM and 4:30 PM EST.
FAX DELIVERY - Regular charges plus $ 1.00 per page for N. America.
EXPRESS SURFACE MAIL - Regular charges plus delivery service costs. (Requesting libraries should supply their service provider's account number.)
How to contact us.
Other libraries may contact Rensselaer Libraries' Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Service by:
- email: ill-support@rpi.edu
- fax: 518-276-8559
- phone: 518-276-8330, or
- the OCLC Interlibrary Loan network (YRM).
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