What is Interlibrary Loan and how does it work?
Interlibrary Loan is a reciprocal lending service where patrons of participating libraries can request and borrow books, documents, and other library materials. Through Interlibrary Loan, CIIS library patrons can get books, electronic and/or print articles, and sometimes other materials like tapes and DVDs that are not available in our own collection. Our Interlibrary Loan system is called ILLiad, and it is hosted by OCLC which acts as an organization of cooperating libraries that works to share resources, e.g. WorldCat, as well as physical materials, in this instance.
