Ask the interlibrary loan staff to mark the loan as paid or credit your account for this loan. Most resource libraries average 80-200 loans per day, so it is easy to occasionally err by filling a loan marked as free. Primary Access Libraries are encouraged, but not required, to adhere to the national maximum. The LOAN field contains phrases indicating the types of materials, as well as modes of delivery, available from the library through interlibrary loan. Each library is assigned a unique code when it first reports its journal holdings.
Some regional offices provide a web-based directory of health sciences libraries in their region.
The system displays the citation title, author, and source for the borrowing library to accept or reject. When the citation or LDX order number is accepted, all relevant bibliographic information is entered automatically into the system. Formal training is not required. However, to assist network members, several training options are available. Users can practice inputting requests, such as in the Borrow function, and updating them, as in the Lend function.