Requests may be made at the Reference desk via a paper form, or they may be submitted online from our ILL homepage . The interlibrary loan department will mail requested article photocopies to the homes of Bluffton College Graduate Students only. A request for this service should be made on either the electronic or paper article request forms. A total of no more than 5 requests may be made from the issues published within the past five years from any one periodical title. The ILL department also serves as the liaison to other institutions who place similar requests for our own materials.
Items are available for loan if they are listed as available in the library catalog.
Items in particularly poor condition and may not survive shipping, or those which are older or more rare items in the collection will be subject to the decision of the Interlibrary Loan Assistant or other appropriate staff member as to whether or not to loan the item. Musselman Library's ILL department uses the OCLC Interlibrary Loan system to submit and fill requests to and from other institutions. We prefer to do only RUSH requests via fax. 1-10 pages, Free. Regular ILL charges also apply.