The Inter-Library Loans and Document Supply service can help you access items not available within the ATU Library Collections. Requested items are sourced from partner and external library collections and document suppliers.
Items which can be requested include:
Before Requesting
Please ensure you have checked both Search + Find and Publication Finder before submitting a request.
The service is heavily subsidized by ATU Library and is therefore restricted to items needed for your research or teaching. It cannot be used to obtain material for personal or leisure use.
This service can source a wide range of material that is unavailable in our campus library.
The main supplier for this service is Subito but we also request from, and supply to, other Technological Universities and Institutes of Technology. Normal loan items borrowed from other Technological Universities and Institutes of Technology may be issued and taken out of the library for home use.
Due to budgetary constraints, only postgraduate students may request items from Subito. Access to eBooks and eJournals is available 24/7.
Postgraduate students, with the exception of the taught MSc in Computing, can borrow resources from all ATU Donegal suppliers. Undergraduate students and taught MSc in Computing students can borrow books from other Technological Universities and Institutes of Technology and do not require special approval from their lecturers to do so.
In exceptional circumstances, when it is deemed necessary by a lecturer, undergraduate students and taught MSc in Computing students can borrow from other suppliers. In order to do so, you must ask your lecturer to contact librarymail.donegal@atu.ie for further information.
Interlibrary loans (ILLs) are expensive. Currently, students are not charged for requested items as the cost is directed to their relevant Head of Department or School. Most libraries do charge students a percentage of the cost and this is an area that library administration will monitor in the future.
Undergraduates are charged €8.00 for each request or €4.00 an article request.
Staff, postgraduates, project research students, alumni and external members please contact the library regarding document supply charges.
ATU Sligo students and staff are not charged for requesting ILLs, however the following quotas apply:
Undergraduate (except Final Year) - 2 requests per academic year
Undergraduate Final Year Student - 10 requests in final academic year
Postgraduate Students - 30 requests per academic year
Academic Staff -30 requests per academic year
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