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Harvard Law School Library Interlibrary Loan: Benefits, Policies, and Procedures



Questions about library hours, materials, book borrowing, renewals, etc can be directed to our Access and Circulation department. They have a service desk in the main lobby and can be reached at access@law.harvard.edu. There is also a page explaining How to Borrow, Renew and Return Library Materials at Harvard Libraries.




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You can borrow a copy of the Bluebook to use for up to two hours (in-library use only) from the law library's circulation desk. If you will be using it frequently, you may want to purchase your own copy. You can purchase a physical copy, access to the electronic version, or both. Note that the law school does not provide access to the online Bluebook for students.


Replacement fees for lost or long overdue materials vary depending on the item and the library. Fines for late return of course reserve items and other short term loans, such as tech loan items, also vary between libraries.


In addition to selecting for jurisdictions across Central, South, and Southeast Asia, she provided research services to Harvard law faculty members, including preparing bibliographies, and conducting extensive legal, academic, interdisciplinary, and policy related research. Aslihan has also worked as a reference librarian and lecturer in law at the Arthur W. Diamond Law Library of Columbia University, School of Law. There, she completed year-long rotations as the interlibrary loan department supervisor, first-year legal research and writing coordinator, Westlaw/Lexis liaison, and foreign, comparative, and international law coordinator. She provided reference services in Anglo-American, international, and foreign law to faculty, students and all other patrons, including creating bibliographies, legislative histories, and in-depth and general research. She also co-developed and co-taught legal research instruction classes for the first year law students, created and taught a Summer Law Associate Research Refresher program, and wrote various research guides on topics like human rights and Islamic law.


Interlibrary loan (ILL) provides Boston College faculty, students and staff with access to research collections within the Boston College Library system and to collections worldwide. The Interlibrary Loan office is located on the third floor of the O'Neill Library.


Sibley Music Library participates as a lending library. Only OCLC requests are accepted. Telephone requests, ALA forms, and fax requests are not accepted. The loan period is four weeks, subject to recall. Renewals may be requested. The Sibley Library does not loan items to individuals through Interlibrary Loan. Patrons wishing access to an item in our collection should place an interlibrary loan request through their public or university library. OCLC symbol: RES


Still can't find that specific resource? Request it through interlibrary loan! While using another law library's research guide is an extra step to finding the resource, it's still a way to connect you with new resources you may not have found otherwise. I always start with BYU research guides, but then I branch out to other libraries if I still have more I want to find.


The Chesapeake Information and Research Library Alliance provides reciprocal borrowing between CIRLA members, including Georgetown. Materials from other CIRLA libraries can be borrowed in-person with appropriate documentation, or requested via interlibrary loan.


Access Services actively supports the teaching and research mission of the Harvard Library by providing circulation, access and borrowing, and other public services as well as operations such as the Harvard Depository, interlibrary loan, and collection management that facilitate virtual and physical access to information resources within and outside the University. Access Services staff members are expected to provide services at the highest level of patron satisfaction while utilizing best practices to meet patron needs. Additionally, Access Services staff members are committed to delivering high-quality customer service; timely access to collections; maintaining the integrity and security of library resources and materials; and accommodating user needs in accordance with the priorities and objectives of the Harvard Library.


This Law Review bibliography on Immigration contains 163 selected citations. The articles in the database can be obtained at any law school library or through interlibrary loan from your local library. If you live outside the United States and have trouble locating a document you are interested in, please contact me. This bibliography contains articles in the following areas:


Interlibrary Services helps navigate copyright issues related to document delivery, borrowing, and lending. This includes the application of fair use in scanning from The Ohio State University Libraries' collections, reviewing ILL requests in accordance with the University Libraries' Interlibrary Loan Copyright Compliance Policy, and restrictions on interlibrary loan when licenses limit our ability to share eJournal and eBook content outside of The Ohio State University.


Faculty, staff, and students with valid borrower accounts from BorrowDirect member institutions can use their school's card to borrow materials from Perkins, Lilly, Music, Law, and Divinity libraries as well as the Library Service Center. Please check the Loan Periods tab for more information about available materials and loan periods.


Kennedy began her career working in New Hampshire as a congressional staffer for several years. She went on to receive a J.D. from Franklin Pierce Law Center (now University of New Hampshire School of Law) and clerked with the New Hampshire Superior Court for two years. After receiving an M.L.I.S. from the University of Washington, she joined the University of Michigan Law Library, serving as the faculty services librarian. She was instrumental in automating document delivery to law faculty and increasing faculty research assistance and went on to work as circulation librarian, shifting her focus to student services, interlibrary loan and access services.


Approximately 41,000 newly completed American doctoraldissertations encompassing a very wide range of subject areas are sent toUMI (formerly UniversityMicrofilms International) in Ann Arbor, Michigan,for microfilming each year. Within five days of their receipt, master negativesare produced from the typescripts. The original typescripts are then returnedto the institutions that awarded the authors their degrees, while the masternegatives are assigned unique order numbers (indicated by the prefix "UM"within Doctoral Dissertations on China and on Inner Asia) and arestored in temperature and humidity controlled vaults to await the arrivalof orders from both individual and institutional customers. At the sametime, 350-word long summaries of the dissertations, prepared and submittedby the thesis authors, are compiled and edited by UMI staff for publicationin the monthly issues of Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI).Together with some of the thousands of titles which are not received byUMI contrary to widespread popular belief, not every American institutionof higher learning has always sent its dissertations to Ann Arbor, whileother universities continue to withhold selected titles from the UMI microfilmingprogram these dissertations gradually find their way into standard and specializedbibliographical reference works. They are automatically listed in the annualvolumes of American Doctoral Dissertations, compiled on behalf ofthe Association for Research Libraries by UMI, as well as in the annual and quinquennial supplementsto UMI's multivol-ume Comprehensive Dissertation Index, 1861-1972.Other, much more focused guides such as the several cumulative bibliographiesof dissertations on individual Asian countries that have been produced byFrank Joseph Shulman and volumes 1-16 (1975-1993) of his bibliographicaljournal Doctoral Dissertations on Asia (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Associationfor Asian Studies, 1975-1996) provide retrospective coverage for doctoralresearch in specific subject areas.The procedure for getting hold of unpublished dissertation typescripts isnot necessarily an easy one, especially as they are not part of the regularbook trade. With the single exception of the Libraryof Congress in Washington, D.C., which obtainsmicrofiche copies of many current American doctoral dissertations throughcopyright deposit and most others through a standing order with UMI,American libraries today do not systematically acquire thousands of dissertationseach year for their general collections. (Even fewer hold copies of master'stheses accepted at institutions other than their own.) Furthermore, becauseof prohibitive administrative costs, the possible inconvenience to readerson their own campuses, and the potential for damage or loss of borrowedvolumes, the majority of universities do not routinely lend copies of theirdissertations to other institutions through interlibrary loan whenever thosesame items are commercially available. For these reasons, the followingguide not only outlines the availability of dissertations from UMIbut also summarizes the present policies of some major schools which haveawarded numerous doctorates for research on China but in the past have notsent all such dissertations to Ann Arbor for microfilming. It also brieflyexplains how selected American theses in the areas of law and theology arepresently being handled.


More than 550 universities in North America now participate in the UMIcooperative dissertation microfilming program, inaugurated in the late 1930s.The involvement of such institutions with internationally renowned graduatedegree programs on China as Columbia University, Harvard University, theUniversity of California at Berkeley, and the University of Michigan enablesUMI to provide coverage for an estimated 95% of all currentAmerican theses and an estimated 80-85% of all past American dissertations.At the present time, copies of 35mm positive (i.e., black on white) microfilmmade at a reduction of 15-20x, 98-page positive microfiche copies (for alltitles produced since 1976), softbound and hardbound paper copies reproducedat about 2/3 their original size (i.e., approximately 6-1/2 x 8-1/4 inchesin size), andfor dissertations received after 1980 softbound and hardboundpaper copies reproduced at their full size (8-1/2 x 11 inches) are availableon demand for most of the 1.3 million dissertations that UMIstores within its vaults. Whenever an order is received, UMI individuallyreproduces the entire thesis typescript in microform or on paper (dependingon the customer's preference), using the printing master or duplicate negativefilm in its possession. For individuals associated with universities, collegesand high schools in the United States and Canada (this includes their libraries,departments, faculty, staff, and students), the prices of single copiesas of January 1998 were as follows: $32.50 for microfilm and microfichecopies, $36.00 for softbound paper copies and $43.50 for hardbound papercopies that are reproduced at 2/3 of their original size, and $39.00 forsoftbound paper copies and $46.50 for hardbound paper copies that are reproducedat full size. (All prices are subject to change without ad-vancenotice. Shipping and handling are included in the price of each dissertation.Applicable taxes are extra.) Students and faculty members at several hundredacademic institutions in North America also have the option of purchasingunbound, shrink-wrapped, full size paper copies of dissertations at $24.50each through "DissertationExpress", a recently established serviceoffered at no charge to the interlibrary loan (ILL) units of academic libraries.Customers submit their orders directly to a participating ILL office, whichthen transmits them to UMI over the World Wide Web through a Netscape interface.In the United States, the requested dissertations are delivered to the sameILL office within 72 hours. For non-academic customers in the United Statesand Canada, in turn, as well as for ALL customers elsewhere throughout theworld (where no distinction is made between academic and non-academic customers),the prices as of January 1998 were as follows: $46.00 for microfilm andmicrofiche copies; $57.50 for softbound paper copies and $69.50 for hardboundpaper copies that are reproduced at 2/3 of their original size, and $60.50for softbound paper copies and $72.50 for hardbound paper copies that arereproduced at full size. Regardless of their provenance and the manner inwhich they are placed, all orders for dissertation copies should containthe entire order number which appears for each thesis in the present bibliography(indicated by the prefix "UM") or in Dissetation AbstractsInternational, together with the author's last name, the complete dissertationtitle, the preferred format (micro-film, microfiche or paper), and the sizeof the paper copy and the type of binding desired (whenever applicable),as well as the customer's name, complete mailing address and telephone number.Except in the case of "DissertationExpress", all orders from individuals andinstitutions in the United States and Canada should be sent to UMI DissertationServices, 300 North Zeeb Road, P.O. Box 1764, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106-1346(U.S.A.). Copies may also be ordered by telephone toll-free within the UnitedStates and Canada by calling 1-800-521-3042. Orders by fax should be directedto either 734-973-1464 or 1-800-308-1586. Orders from individuals and institutionselsewhere should be placed either directly with UMI in Ann Arbor, Michigan,or through one of UMI's international sales agents. They are as follows:For Europe, Africa, the Middle East (except Israel) and Pakistan: UMI/InformationPublications International, The Old Hospital, Ardingly Road, Cuckfield,West Sussex RH17 5JR, United Kingdom (Telephone: 44-1-444-445000; Fax: 44-1-444-445050;E-mail: [email protected]) 2ff7e9595c


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