The Health Sciences Libraries and Information Center loan period is two weeks for non-Reserve items. Each April the borrower will receive a list of items they have checked out during the year on indefinite loan. These items must be returned or renewed before the middle of May to avoid fines. If you have borrowed a book on your own from the UW Libraries, you may renew it online . If an item is not available at any of the UW libraries we can make an ILL request through UW interlibrary loan services.
ILLs take from a few days to a few weeks and the cost varies.
Usually the turnaround time is speedy. Books, reports, theses, may be requested through interlibrary loan and must be returned promptly so that they can be returned on time to distant lending institutions. The Health Services Information Center staff can help you locate, retrieve, organize, and evaluate information from many sources and in many formats. We can also teach you to use many of the resource tools available electronically and in print or mention sources of information you may not have considered. We can help you set up a current awareness service, which will send the table of contents of up to 50 journals of your choice to your email as they become available.