Interlibrary Loans

The National Library of Australia interlibrary loan system is being replaced and upgraded and will be offline commencing early April with services resuming in early July 2025. During this period, the Library Interlibrary Loans Team will be operating a limited service for physical and digital requests as some of our Australian partners cease to accept requests during the upgrade of the Trove Partners Resource Sharing service.

The Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Service supports the research and teaching needs of Macquarie University’s eligible staff and students.

 We do this by liaising with other libraries outside of Macquarie University to borrow and provide known published items, and theses, both physical and electronic that are not held by Waranara Library. 

 We are bound by domestic and international copyright legislation, licencing agreements and the conditions set by the library that owns the item. This means not all items found by a requestor can be supplied by us.

To get the best from this service please:

• provide accurate information about the requested item including title, author, publication date and where possible ISBN or ISSN.
• check that the item is not held in the Waranara collection or available via Open Access before requesting. If it is, we will advise you where to find it but will not provide a copy via this service.
• supply exact spelling and wording for any items that are not in English, to help our searchers find the item more quickly.
• If we are unable to facilitate access to the item, we will advise you and where possible offer alternative access options.

Macquarie University and Macquarie University Hospital staff and postgraduate students (including honours students in honours year) are eligible to request interlibrary loans.

Items supplied that are not held by the Library must be for teaching and/or research purposes.

We also provide resources to eligible Distance Education students and remote staff:

• Digital copies from print material from our collection (copyright limits apply)
• Postage of books from our collection to those outside of the designated Sydney Metro area (within Australia only)