INTERLIBRARY LOAN (ILL)

VILNIUS TECH employees and lecturers who cannot find the required academic text in our library's collections can order it from other Lithuanian or foreign libraries.

Interlibrary Loan (IL) – a service that provides the possibility to order publications from other Lithuanian libraries through the mediation of one library.

International Interlibrary Loan (ILL) – a service that provides the possibility for one state library to use the collection of another state library.

Book ordering process:
• Please provide bibliographic descriptions of the publication or article.
• Please note that the last copy or a copy of a single publication in the library is not for loan.
• The deadline for the return of publications will be specified by the library that sent the texts.;
•The processing time is at least 1-2 days for ILL and at least one month for ILL (if the publication is loaned to another library, the processing time may be longer).
• You will be informed by phone or email when the publications arrive at the library. 

 

 

Attention:
• placing an order doesn’t guarantee that one will receive the book/document;
• the library does not borrow encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri;
• periodical publications are not for lent. It is possible to order article copies;
• sent orders cannot be cancelled;
• the postage and all extra fees must be paid by the reader;
• the reader must pay the fine for damaged or lost books which determines the library-lender.