Interlibrary Loan Services

All current WTAMU students, faculty, staff, and Friends of Cornette Library (Supporting level and above) can use Interlibrary Loan (ILL). ILL allows us to borrow research materials from the collections of other libraries for our patrons

You will often find a link to request the item from Interlibrary Loan for items to which we do not have full-text access.

If you have questions, please contact the Interlibrary Loan department at (806) 651-2406 or the Access Services Desk at (806) 651-2215.

Instructions to Request an Item

• For books or other physical item requests, please provide author, title, publisher, and publication date.
• For article or chapter requests, please provide author, title, journal/magazine/newspaper title, date or volume/issue of publication, and page numbers.
• If you cannot find any of the above information, please reach out to a research librarian at (806) 651-2239, Email a Librarian form, or via our 24/7 online chat.
• Submit request using your choice of:
  • a pre-filled Interlibrary Loan form that is available in most of Cornette Library's databases.
  • completing a blank Interlibrary Loan form.

Receiving Materials

• Generally no charge. We will contact you for approval if there will be any fee.
• Allow up to 1 week for articles to arrive. Most items will arrive more quickly.
• Allow 1-3 weeks for books to arrive.
• You will be notified by email when your material arrives.
• Faculty, staff, on-campus students, and Friends of the Cornette library may pick up physical materials at the Access Services Desk.
• Amarillo Center students and faculty can pick up physical materials at the Amarillo Center. We can send your items through the courier service. However, items are only sent via courier once per week, so picking up your items at the Main Campus may be faster.
• Online/Distance students will receive physical materials through the mail. Please make a note in the comments field on your request that you are an Online/Distance student.
• If you are a RELLIS student or faculty member, we will send your items to the RELLIS library via TExpress courier.
• Some articles may be delivered as PDF attachments via email.
• Articles will typically be delivered online. You’ll receive email notification when the article is available. Login to your ILL account and retrieve the item under the “Download” tab. Download/print these within 30 days. Click on the transaction number to get the PDF.
• Rarely, articles will be received as photocopies that can be picked up at ILL desk (faculty, staff, on-campus students, and Friends of the Cornette library) or received via mail (Amarillo Center, Online/Distance, and RELLIS students and faculty).
• Lending libraries may require that some materials will be "library use only" and must remain within the library.

Returning Materials

• Renewal and check-out periods are determined by the lending library.
• Renewal requests must be submitted three days before the due date.
• Faculty, staff, on-campus students, and Friends of the Cornette Library may return books and other materials to the Access Services Desk during open hours.
• Amarillo Center students and faculty may drop off ILL materials at the Cornette Library or at the Amarillo Center for the courier to bring back to the Cornette library.
• Online/Distance students should use the prepaid label included in your ILL package to mail your ILL materials back to the Cornette Library.
• RELLIS students and faculty should return ILL materials to the RELLIS library and they will send them back to the Cornette Library.
• Please do not remove the yellow band from the cover of the book for any reason.

Fines & Fees

• Replacement fees for lost or damaged items are assessed by the lending library, not Cornette Library.
• Any item not picked up after 10 days will receive a second notification. If the item is not picked up with in 24 hours of the second notification, a shipping fee of $4.35 will be charged to the patron account.

Copyright & ILL

Interlibrary Loan strives to provide our patrons access to materials that we do not physically own or license. In this regard, the library is limited by Section 108 of the Copyright Law, CONTU Guidelines, and licensing agreements. While copyright compliance is the responsibility of the patron (you), the Library cannot fulfill a request if we:

• have notice that a copy will be used for a purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research.
• are aware or have substantial reason to believe that it is engaging in the related or concerted reproduction or distribution of multiple copies or phonorecords of the same material.
• receive multiple requests from the same patron for articles/sections from the same issue or a larger collection of works.
• receive multiple requests from all patrons that exceed five articles from the last five years of a single journal title within one calendar year.
• receive a photocopy request that exceeds 10% or 1 chapter (whichever is less) of a book.
• receive a copy request for a musical work, a pictorial, graphic, sculptural work, a motion picture, or other audiovisual work that is not dealing with the news, unless contained in a larger published work.

If any of these apply to you, please contact the library with Email a Librarian.

Alternatives to ILL

• Email a librarian. We can help you find what you need.
• Use a document delivery service such as DOCLINE.
• Try to obtain the item from a bookstore.
• Search for articles online.
• Visit a library which owns a needed item.
• Contact the publisher or author of the item.