Lending Section

Location & Hours of Operation | Receiving ILS Orders | Due Dates & Renewals
Lending Eisenhower Library Materials | Contact Information

The Lending Section of Interlibrary Services accepts requests for loans and photocopies of Eisenhower Library materials (including those in the Libraries Service Center, Gilman Stacks, and Bloomberg Building locations) from libraries around the world. Only libraries may submit requests; if you are an individual who wishes to receive Eisenhower Library materials, please speak to your local library's interlibrary loan department.

If you wish to request materials from another Johns Hopkins library , please contact that library directly.

Information for non-Homewood JHU Borrowers

Patrons with a current JHU library card can have Eisenhower Library materials sent to their home library free of charge. To arrange for delivery, fill out the forms available through your home library, not the Eisenhower Library's forms.

Materials can be sent to the following locations:

• Applied Physics Laboratory R.E. Gibson Library - call (443) 778-5152 for more information
• Arthur Friedheim Library (Peabody Institute)
• Harold E. Harrison Medical Library (Bayview Medical Center, FSK Pavilion, Level 01) - call (410) 550-0678 for more information
• Abraham Lilienfeld Library
• Lilienfeld Library Satellite
• Mason Library (SAIS)
• Adolf Meyer Library
• William H. Welch Medical Library
• Columbia Center
• Downtown Center Library
• Montgomery County Center Library
• National Foreign Language Center (Washington Center, Rome Building) - staff members fill out forms and fax them to the Eisenhower Library ILS department.
• Washington Center

 Note: Transfer of audiovisual materials must be arranged through the Audio-Visual Department, not through ILS.

Non-circulating materials

 The following items are not available for lending through interlibrary loan:

• Entire volumes or issues of periodicals
• Reference Collection materials
• Reserve materials
• Special Collections materials
• Hutzler Undergraduate Reading Room materials
• All audio-visual materials, including sound recordings, videos, and software
• Microforms (except to reciprocal libraries)
• Master's theses
• JHU Dissertations written after 1977. Pre-1978 dissertations can be loaned if a second copy is available or photocopied if only one copy exists.  Post-1966 dissertations may be purchased through Bell + Howell. The Eisenhower Library's University Archives department provides a fuller explanation of the policies regarding theses and dissertations. The Archivist has final say over they can circulate through interlibrary loan.

 Submitting requests

• Requests can be submitted via OCLC (symbol: JHE), the preferred method.
• ALA and IFLA forms are also accepted. Forms can be submitted via fax,email, Ariel, or mail.
• Telephone requests will not be accepted.
• Rush requests can usually be accepted; however, please call before submitting them to see if we have the time to process them.

Loan periods & renewals

• Loans are due back 42 days after the date the borrowing library receives the material.
• Items may be renewed once for an additional 42 days if no other JHU patrons require the material.
• All loaned items are subject to recall by the Eisenhower library at any time.

 Service fees  

We prefer to bill though OCLC IFM. For non-IFM requests, an invoice will be sent with the material.

 Fees:

• Loans: US $15 per title (up to 4 volumes) or 1.5 IFLA vouchers
• Photocopies: US $10 per article (up to 50 pages) or 1 IFLA voucher
  • After 50 pages, cost is $.15 per page

 Reciprocal agreements

 The Eisenhower Library has entered into reciprocal agreements with several  libraries (mostly large university research libraries) to expedite the exchange of library materials. Benefits include:

• Waived service fees
• UPS delivery of materials
• Permission to borrow microfilm materials (including dissertations for which the library owns a microfilm copy)

The Eisenhower Library currently offers reciprocal lending to the CIRLA libraries, the MICUA libraries, any MILO libraries that submit requests through the Enoch Pratt Free Library, and other libraries who have signed one-on-one reciprocal agreements.