Brock faculty, students, and staff can place requests for books and articles located at other libraries through the Interlibrary Loan Service.
Brock alumni are also eligible to borrow books through interlibrary loan on a cost recovery basis. Community borrowers are eligible for interlibrary loan privileges for a fee of $50 per year plus cost recovery. Please refer to Community Borrowing fees.
Frequently Asked Questions about Interlibrary Loan
Two ways:
1. When you discover a book or article in Omni that isn’t available at Brock, choose ‘Check for available services’ to request the item. Choose ‘The library doesn’t have book? Request it via Interlibrary Loan’. The form will automatically add all the required information, just fill in your RACER userID and password to submit the request.
2. If you already know the citation information for an item the library does have access to, you can go directly to the Article and Book request forms to fill in the form and submit your request.
The Library subsidizes the costs of obtaining research materials within Canada. Community and Alumni are charged on a cost recovery basis for books and microform materials.
The Library will subsidize $25 toward any U.S. or international requests for Brock faculty, graduate students, and staff.
Books, book chapters, journal articles, government publications, conference proceedings, reports, Canadian theses, and microfilm / microfiche can be requested through RACER.
We are unable to request entire journal issues, entire ebooks, audiovisual material, reference material, and maps through RACER.
Journal articles typically arrive within 1-3 business days. Books typically arrive within 3-5 business days, but may take longer depending on the lending library.
Your RACER UserID is your Brock ID number. Your password is one that you created when you registered for your RACER account.
Visit the Ask Us Desk or phone 905-688-5550 x4583 and staff will help you change your password.
Create a request in RACER using the ‘Blank Request Form’ on the left hand toolbar under ‘My Account.’
No, Interlibrary Loan staff will locate the material for you.
Articles and books that are available at James A. Gibson Library are typically cancelled. Items that are not available at a Canadian library are typically cancelled for undergraduates.
The due date appears on the book band. Please check the Library’s Borrowing Policies for overdue or lost interlibrary loan books.
Journal articles are yours to keep.
Copies of articles or documents provided through interlibrary loan are mad according to the limits specified under Canadian copyright law, or under license from electronic resource providers. Current Brock students, faculty, and staff may request a single copy of one article from one journal issue, or more than one article provided that the total number of pages does not exceed 10% of the issue. If your request exceeds the limit, you will be advised that your request cannot be filled.
Systematic, cumulative copying is prohibited. Submission of the interlibrary loan request constitutes agreement that the materials received will be used for the purpose of education, research, or private study only, and that the requester has not previously received a copy of the article/document being requested.