Interlibrary Loan Policy
Our current online services have made many kinds of Interlibrary Loans (ILL) unnecessary. North Central Michigan College Library now fulfills many ILL needs through online access which formerly were only met through Interlibrary Loan.
Interlibrary Loans can still be arranged through the North Central Library under the following guidelines:
Eligibility:
- Currently enrolled students. ILLs are limited to five per project.
- Current faculty, staff, administration, and trustees. There is no limit as to number. Employees who are also students elsewhere, however, should expect to get ILL service from the library of the institution where they are enrolled. The NCMC library will be happy to get ILLs for staff whose external course work is connected to a North Central Michigan College project.
- Community patrons from Emmet County
Scope of ILL Service:
- ILLs must be related to North Central's curriculum, current and under development,
- Or, related to committee work,
- Or related to job assignment, assigned research, grants, etc.
- Personal interests unrelated to the college's mission cannot be accommodated.
- Requests from family, friends, etc., cannot be honored.
Copyright provisions that affect Interlibrary Loan:
- Our library can request no more than five photocopies of articles out of any given journal during any calendar year.
- Our library can request only one photocopied article out of any issue of a journal, and not even that if it constitutes the entire editorial content of that issue.
- We must refuse requests that violate the above guidelines.
- ILL service users should also be aware that they can very quickly use up the institution's eligibility to acquire photocopies from a particular journal.