Interlibrary Loan Lending Information

Requesting Material
Loan policies
Service Fees
Purchasing Copy of Thesis
Contact the ILL Office

Requesting Material from Mann Library

Mann Library offers a full-service lending department. We are a member of the RLG SHARES (symbol is RLG:NYCY), supplier in the OCLC system (symbol is COO), member of the OCLC NYLINK group and the Rapid consortium. Mann Library will lend to institutions that do not have consortium membership. If you are a non-networked institution, visit the Business Lending section

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Loan Policies

We loan most of the items in our collection that are held at Mann, Library Annex, Entomology, Ornithology or the Bailey Hort. Mann Library loan policies are as follows:

Restrictions

• We can fill requests for most kinds of items, except items held in special collections, reference or reserve.
• We cannot loan serials published in the last five years.
• We cannot fill international loan requests to countries that, for various reasons, may be unable to return our material.
• Not more than 5 volumes from a given title can be checked out to you at any given time.
• Books published in the past five (5) years are not renewable. They must be returned by the due date provided.

Shipping

• Domestic packages are shipped via UPS, unless we are provided a customer's Fed Ex number.
• International and noncontiguous US loans are shipped via airmail.
• Domestic loans (within the USA) should be returned by courier.
• Please follow the packaging instructions provided on the paperwork.

Policies

• The "standard loan period" is 6 weeks.
• "Renewal requests" should be made through OCLC or RLG ISO. We allow two renewals only.
• "Overdue notices" are generated soon after the item becomes overdue. If a problem has arisen, please let us know or respond to our inquiries.
• All loans are subject to *recall* at any time.
• If an item is not returned, a *replacement fee*, a minimum of $100.00 is issued two months after the item becomes overdue. This fee is waived if the item is returned in good condition prior to replacement. If an item is lost en route to Mann, the replacement fee will be waived only if the borrower used a courier and can provide documentation indicating that the item was picked up by the courier.
• The replacement fee for a recalled item is issued ten days from the time of recall. If the item is returned before a replacement copy is ordered by Mann Library, $75.00 will be waived. A $25.00 non-negotiable late fee will be assigned.

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Service Fees

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How can a copy of a Cornell thesis be purchased?

If the thesis is a masters thesis or if it is a Ph.D. thesis pre-June 1954, please contact Olin Library interlibrary lending at olin-ils-lending@cornell.edu, attention *Anne Keville.* This is also the e-mail address to use for special services, such as having a negative or photo made from an image in a magazine, etc. The approximate time for a reproduction is 1 - 3 months and will most likely cost a minimum of $50.00+. The format options are microfilm or unbound paper copy.

For Ph.D. theses only, post-June 1954, please go to ProQuest, formerly University Microform International (UMI.)

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Contacting the ILL Office

If you have any questions about our lending services, we invite you to contact us at mill@cornell.edu or call (607) 255-7754. For assistance with our catalog or information on our collection, please contact our reference department at mann_ref@cornell.edu or call (607) 255-5406.

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