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The University Library offers an Inter-Library Loan service which provides access for Cambridge students and staff to material not held within Cambridge University, whilst also supplying material from its own stock to other libraries.
CAMBRIDGE STAFF AND STUDENTS
ILL staff are only able to offer a service to University of Cambridge students and staff. We cannot accept requests from any other category of Library user. Please note that although this is currently being offered as a free service, we have a request limit of 5 per user within 24 hours.
Current Cambridge students and staff can submit Inter-Library Loans requests from anywhere in the world with our
Online Request form
. Simply fill in the request form, submit and let us try and acquire the material for you.
A wide variety of printed and microform material can be obtained from the
British Library
and other Libraries within the UK and overseas, including:
Books (and chapters from books)
Theses
Journal articles (and loan of whole issues)
Conference papers
Selected microforms
Access the Online Inter-Library Loan Form
FOR UK AND OVERSEAS LIBRARIES
The Inter-Library Loans department is able to provide loans or copies of items held within the collections of the University Library and several other Departmental and Faculty libraries. We welcome requests from Libraries within the
UK, Republic of Ireland
and  can off scans to libraries
Overseas
Opening hours
Monday - Friday : 9am to 7pm (9:45pm in the
Easter Full Term
for consultation of ILL items only, not for accepting ILL requests)
Saturday : 9am to 4:45pm
Contact us
Inter-Library Loans
Cambridge University Library
West Road
Cambridge CB3 9DR
E-mail:
ill@lib.cam.ac.uk
Contact us
Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR, UK
Email:
library@lib.cam.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 333000
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