ILL Quick Reference

This is a page designed for in-house collaboration of tips and tricks for obtaining research materials from other libraries (non-Maryland or non-SLRC participating). If you need help with normal Marina requests, see the intranet, email or call Jane Spear or Julia Cubit. Please click on the links to pages below for information.

FAQs - ILL Searches, periodical Requests, and direct loans

   Most libraries are willing to lend their resources, but they have varying requirements. We'll try to assemble the gleaned methods on this wiki.  Your comments and input are appreciated. Since we don't participate in OCLC for ILL lending or receiving, usually libraries require an ALA form, which Jane will fill out with the information you or your patron provides.  Some universities, colleges, and the Library of Congress now require us to maintain a logon and password for their ILLiad websites. These requests will also need to be funnelled through the ILL office, since these logons and passwords are maintained there.

    Also - please remember, even though the Maryland Room is physically located at 110 East Patrick Street, the resources and staff there are available to all Frederick County patrons and staff. If you have a genealogy request, or just need to ask advice for help in locating a hard-to-find item, don't hesitate to call or email Mary Mannix, Carolyn Magura or Waneta Gagne (See sidebar for contact info). They are always more than glad to share resources.

State Libraries that will lend and their information:

Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records

California State Library

Library of Virginia 

Bureau of State Library, Pennsylvania 

Vermont Department of Libraries

Historical Societies

Did you know that Maryland Historical Society will now take ILL requests?  This is a new service recently re-instituted, thanks to your Maryland Room Genealogy guru who asked them to revisit a previous policy.  Contact Mary Mannix in the Maryland Room if your patron wants something from MHS.

Their website: www.mdhs.org

Alabama Department of Archives & History

Idaho State Historical Society

Kansas State Historical Society

Ohio Historical Society

State Historical Society of Iowa

State Historical Society of Missouri

St. Louis County Special Collections - this is a treasure-trove of genealogy information.

Colleges and universities

Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME)

Bryn Mawr College 

Maryland University at College Park

Gettysburg College (Pennsylvania)

Hampton University (Hampton, VA)

Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Stapleton Library

Kutztown University (Kutztown, PA)

Quincy University (Illinois)

University of Idaho

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Southern Mississippi - Cook Library

Other institutions and some public libraries:

Archives of Ontario - Microfilm Interloan Service

Broward County Library  - Ft. Lauderdale, FL

National Library of Canada - Libraries and Archives

National Library of Medicine

Prescott Public Library - Arizona

Rockefeller Library - Williamsburg, Va.

United States Fire Academy

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Library

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