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OhioLINK and Interlibrary Loan

Your research doesn’t have to stop at our shelves. UD students, faculty and staff have access to materials from two major borrowing networks and can make requests for free delivery:

  • OhioLINK: a consortium of Ohio’s college and university libraries, accessible through UDiscover

  • SearchOhio: a consortium of Ohio’s public libraries (currently unavailable until the fall; a new technology is being developed to reintegrate SearchOhio with OhioLINK)

  • Interlibrary loan: a means of borrowing physical and digital resources — including books and full-text journal articles — from a network of libraries that share resources

Our staff is available to assist with borrowing from these systems. View more information and frequently asked questions on Porches (UD login required).

For Other Libraries and Organizations

Request Process

For OCLC member institutions, submit requests to symbol DAY. For libraries that do not use OCLC, please contact ill@udayton.edu for assistance submitting your request.

Lending Policies

  • There is a $5 charge for domestic loans of physical materials from UD’s collection to any institutions that are not members of OhioLINK or the Strategic Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE) or do not participate in a reciprocal agreement with Roesch Library. International loans of physical materials are $35. Make an interlibrary loan payment.

  • Books and government documents from the general collection are loaned for eight weeks. One renewal is accepted, subject to local needs. Reference books may be loaned at the discretion of a reference librarian and may be subject to restrictions.

  • Circulating copies of theses and dissertations are available for loan within the United States and Canada. The library does not make digital copies of theses for lending purposes. However, many digitized theses are available in the Libraries’ institutional repository, eCommons.

  • Audiovisual materials may be loaned within the United States and Canada with no renewals.

  • Microfilm reels and microfiche are available for loan within the United States and Canada with no renewals. The library does not lend ultrafiche or ERIC microfiche.

  • Articles, conference papers and book chapters may be photocopied. There is a $15 charge for all copies made for institutions that are not members of OhioLINK or SOCHE or do not participate in a reciprocal agreement with Roesch Library. This fee covers up to 30 pages. For article requests exceeding 30 pages, the bound journal volume may be loaned within the United States and Canada with no renewals. 

  • Items from University Archives, the U.S. Catholic Special Collection and the Marian Library pamphlets and folios collections are noncirculating but may be copied at the discretion of the collection librarian.

  • Items from the graphic medicine collection, leisure reading collection, popular romance collection and science fiction collection are not available for interlibrary loan, nor are Marian Library audiovisual materials or juvenile materials.

Requesting libraries assume responsibility for borrowed material as dictated by the Interlibrary Loan Code for the United States, Section 4.9. OhioLINK libraries are governed by OhioLINK policies.

Make An Interlibrary Loan Payment