Interlibrary Loan

Current UNE students, faculty, and staff can request free copies of anything not available in our collections or subscriptions.

How to Request

Search library resources first. If we do not have access or you can’t find what you are looking for, submit a request. Provide as much detail as possible to speed up processing times.

You can request:

Articles

• PDF or microfilm articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers
• Dissertations, conference proceedings, and other published documents
• Limited to 5 articles from a single journal title that has been published within the last 5 years

Book Chapters

Single book chapter up to 50 pages. If you need a longer section, request the entire book.

Books & Media

• Print books
• Films on DVD or VHS
• Audio or Audiobook CDs
• Video Games

Articles typically arrive within 1-3 business days. Books and physical media can take 5-10 business days. You will receive an email when your items are available.

PDFs will be delivered to your interlibrary loan account where files remain active for 30 days and may be downloaded or printed. Physical items will be mailed to the campus you specify and can be picked up at the library front desk.

Interlibrary Loan is free – however you could receive fines for overdue, unreturned, or damaged materials.

Can’t request:

• Streaming video or video files
• Downloadable or streaming audiobooks or audio files
• Entire e-books
• Books which are only available internationally.
• Anything not available in library collections.

Lending libraries decide what they will loan and can deny requests for any reason. Rare, antique, or fragile items, oversized books, required textbooks, and multi-volume sets may not be available.

Books borrowed from other libraries can’t be sent off-campus. See Services for Online Students for help getting print books near you.

Loan Times

Loan times for physical items are 4 to 12 weeks. You can request a renewal, but it is up to the lending library to decide if they will extend your loan. Lending libraries may recall, or shorten the loan time, at their discretion.

MaineCat & Reciprocal Borrowing

Request books and other materials directly from other Maine libraries to be delivered to your UNE campus through the state-wide shared library catalog MaineCat. Select University of New England as your home library and use your 9-digit PRN as your library card number.

You can also visit participating Maine libraries to borrow and return materials using your UNE ID card through the Maine Reciprocal Borrowing Program.