Interlibrary Loan
Current students, faculty, and staff are able to use Interlibrary Loan (ILL) to borrow books, journal articles, or other materials from thousands of other libraries that participate in ILL resource sharing. Additionally, the ILL department digitizes articles, book chapters, and microform from the Chester Fritz Library physical collection.
Students, faculty, and staff whose primary library is the SMHS Library Resources or Thormodsgard Law Library should contact those libraries for services.
Currently, the library is transitioning to a new ILL system. Please contact us if you run into any difficulties submitting ILL requests.
Frequently Asked Questions
Local and Distance students, faculty, and staff may use ILL to borrow books, journal articles, or other materials from thousands of other libraries.
Articles, books, media, book chapters, etc. may be requested from another library or provided digitally from the Chester Fritz Library physical collection.
The restrictions on what can be requested or digitized are:
- Textbooks and ebooks cannot be requested.
- Due to copyright laws, we can only digitize one chapter per book. If more than one chapter is needed, please request the entire book.
- Distance students are an exception and may request material that UND owns to be sent to them (see the next item below for more information).
Contact the ILL department if you have questions about materials.
Distance borrowers live outside the Grand Forks/East Grand Forks Zip Code area (58201, 58202, 58203, or 56721) and do not come to campus regularly.
If you are a distance borrower and you wish to borrow an item from the Chester Fritz Library's collection or through regular ILL, you can use this request form to have an item sent to you (one-time registration is required before submitting your first request):
We will email distance users additional information and instructions after we receive your registration.
To ensure proper delivery, distance users are responsible for keeping their mailing address current in Campus Connection.
Physical books will be mailed to you (allow 15-30 business days for delivery). We will send books within the U.S. and Canada only.
You are responsible for return postage and shipping for delivery to UND by the due date.
You may be responsible for lost item fees.
For more information, see the Interlibrary Loan Policy page.
Requests may be submitted by completing the ILL Request Form or through the Chester Fritz Library catalog.
It varies. We recommend allowing 10 business days (Monday to Friday, excluding holidays), though it is not unusual to receive items more quickly.
Distance borrowers should allow more time for mailing of physical items.
No, ILL is free of charge for all current faculty, emeriti faculty, staff, and students.
To cancel a request, contact our ILL department by email or calling them at 701.777.4631.
Local borrowers can pick up items at the Ask Us desk on the Second Floor. Bring your UND ID card to check out the item. Journal articles will be emailed to your UND account.
Distance borrowers will have physical items mailed to them. Articles and book chapters not available online may be scanned and emailed to distance borrowers' UND accounts. Scanning and copying may be subject to copyright law.
Submit a renewal request 3 to 5 days before the items due date by emailing the ILL department or calling it at 701.777.4631. For a prompt response, please do not submit a renewal request through your library account.
Granting of renewal and length of renewal is not guaranteed and is at the discretion of the lending library. If denied, the item needs to be returned by its due date.
For more information on renewing an ILL item, see our ILL Policy page.
Have a question that isn't answered here?
Email the ILL Staff or call the department at 701.777.4631