POLICY STATEMENT

Central Library at both the campuses provides Document Delivery and Interlibrary Loan service to students, faculty and staff of PSU. The service is known as DD&ILL. Through DD&ILL, the libraries, delivers copies of books, journals, reports, research articles, conference papers, book chapters and other material not available at any of libraries.

Required material may include the material/sources available in Central Library holdings but is/are issued to other users, lost, or missing.

Policy

Definitions

Following are DD&ILL privileges:

BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION

No library has access to everything that is published in the world. To fill this gap, libraries make arrangements to borrow or exchange material with other libraries. DD&ILL is such an arrangement to fulfill the information, teaching, and research needs of the PSU community.

SCOPE AND PURPOSE

The purpose of Document Delivery and Interlibrary Loan Policy is to provide guidelines to obtain materials not owned by Central Library to fulfill the research, teaching and information needs of PSU faculty and students. The policy applies to the PSU affiliated faculty, students and staff only.

PRINCIPLES OF THE POLICY

• Users are required to send their requests for DD&ILL to their respective libraries i.e. CL-MC or CL-CW.
• Requesters must search Central Library online catalog (OPAC) for print resources and subscribed databases for e-books and research papers prior to sending the DD&ILL request.
• Document Delivery and Interlibrary Loan requests for the material that is available at any of the Central Library are canceled.
• Users are notified on the receipt of material.
• Electronic material is delivered electronically through email.
• Print material is arranged to collect at circulation units of libraries.
• Users are required to follow the local and international copyright laws and agreements.
• Users are responsible for any kind of violations.
• Borrowers are responsible for returning books by the due date.
• The service is provided free of cost.

DEFINITIONS

Document Delivery (DD): a service to obtain lawful and copyright-compliant papers/documents published in e-journals, conference proceedings and other sources that are not available in subscribed electronic resources.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL): a cooperative arrangement by libraries by which they borrow material from or supply material to other libraries to fulfil the information needs of their patrons.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES

Libraries at the Men and Women Campuses are responsible for DD&ILL policy.

The policy will be shared with the relevant staff at both the libraries for its compliance and implementation.

PROCEDURES FOR HANDLING POLICY VIOLATION

Failure to abide by the policy may cause the reason of cancelation or review of the DD&ILL contract/agreements with cooperating libraries.

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