The Interlibrary Loan staff is excited to welcome you to ILLiad, our new Interlibrary Loan management system! The new system offers many new features to enhance your requesting experience. We hope this brief introduction helps you get started using ILLiad.

If you have any questions regarding ILLiad, please always feel free to contact the staff in the Interlibrary Loan office. We are available by phone at (507) 646-3223, by e-mail at ill@stolaf.edu, or you are welcome to stop by our office in Room 300 of Rolvaag Memorial Library.

Enjoy!

Once you log in and register for ILLiad, you will see the ILLiad Main Menu. From this menu you can perform a number of functions, including:

• Submitting new interlibrary loan requests for loaned or photocopied materials;
• Viewing your "outstanding" requests (those requests which you have requested and not yet received);
• Picking up your photocopy requests that arrive electronically;
• Viewing the loaned materials that you currently have checked out;
• Viewing requests that have been cancelled, either by you or by the Interlibrary Loan staff. You can re-submit cancelled requests from here also;
• Viewing a history of your completed requests;
• Changing your personal information at any time.
  

If you have made Interlibrary Loan requests in the past, you might notice that there are only two request forms now, for photocopies and for loans. All requests fall into these two general types of requests regardless of whether you are requesting microfilm, videos, journal articles, or proceedings of a conference. Also, much of the information we ask of you when requesting various types of materials does not differ much from one type of request to another. For these reasons, we decided to simplify matters and have only the two types of requests. However, we realize that there are times when the information you have may not fit into our fields exactly. In these instances - and any time you have questions - simply click on the to the right of the field for further explanation. If you have additional questions, please feel free to contact us in the Interlibrary Loan office.

Clicking on any of the Review Requests menu options (such as View/Modify Outstanding Requests) will take you to a list of all requests that are outstanding, cancelled, checked out, or filled respectively.

Once you are at a summary page, you may click on the button in the View/Edit column to view detailed information regarding a particular request. In addition to the bibliographic data contained on this page, you can see any notes we have added to your request, the current status of your request, and the Interlibrary Loan staff members who have worked on your request at various stages of processing.

For help in interpreting the various statuses, please consult with the ILLiad Help Web pages.

Editing your personal information is now easier than ever. Instead of contacting the Interlibrary Loan staff to update your barcode, address, or any other information, just click on the Change User Information link on the ILLiad Main Menu, change your information, and click the Submit Information button.

These are just some of the features of ILLiad to get you up and running; you will no doubt discover more as you continue to use ILLiad. There are also many great features of ILLiad for us, the Interlibrary Loan staff, which, hopefully, will result in faster and more accurate service to you, our patrons. If you have any comments about how ILLiad could work better for you, please let us know! We're eager for any suggestions you may have!