Inter-library loans are requests to other libraries for items that are not held in De Montfort University libraries. In most cases this will be the British Library but if they do not have the item we will do everything that we can to trace a library that does. You will find the service point for Inter-library loans is near the Short loan issue desk in the Reference section Supply of material Books Most books are easily obtained.
Exceptions tend to be old, rare or foreign items.
Specific articles are usually supplied as photocopies which the reader may keep. Complete issues of periodicals can be ordered in cases where a large number of pages from the same issue are needed. Theses Most theses will be supplied to you in microfilm. British and more recent American theses can be obtained fairly readily. Older American and other foreign theses may come from abroad which may result in unavoidable and considerable delay.