Your request for the journal article or book is attached to the record, and that makes the ILL people's job that much faster. They just figure out which library is most likely to loan it expeditiously to Scribner Library, and as soon as it's received, they let you know. Once again, Skidmore Library has a special account with First Search, so you individually don't have to pay for each search. You can go into it through the Library's webpage. Now you are not limited to a single library or even a regional library system.
Many libraries belong to a network that agrees to lend books to each other.
The less you know, the better. It's usually free. The trick is to do the research to find the sources early enough in the semester to get the sources in time. So the sooner you get the jump on finding more sources on Ludmilla Schlipalotte's work, the more brilliant your research paper will seem. That's because a lot of what is research is just organizing information.