Clientele Interlibrary Loan Services are available to ALL Thomas Jefferson University ID holders. Library members, alumni and members of the general public are not eligible for ILL services at this time. Thereafter, charges accrue at the stated rate. We will consider the need for additional free articles by students with adequate justification. Rush handling is available for photocopies only.
Deposit accounts are available for frequent users.
We must charge for Interlibrary Loans for several reasons. Much of that cost to date has been absorbed by the Scott Library, or reduced through participation in reciprocal arrangements with other libraries. However, we now request over 600 items monthly and the actual fees to the Scott Library are steadily increasing each year. These Interlibrary Loan fees, coupled with escalating journal subscription prices and budgetary restrictions, make it impossible for us to fully subsidize our Interlibrary Loan service. We ask our users to bear a portion of the cost of providing materials which are not a part of our collection.