Ordering Through Illiad Once you have registered with Illiad, you can immediately make an interlibrary loan request. Keep in mind that Illiad will probably not order anything that the library already owns, even if it is checked out. You can request that checked-out materials be recalled through the library catalog; simply look up the work by title or author, bring up the entry on the work and look for the user services or recall option. What information you will need to order a book.First, let's check out the types of information needed to order a book through Illiad. Log in by entering your ID and password into the text boxes. You will be taken to the main menu for Illiad. From here you can update your user information, keep track of what you have ordered and when it's due back, and order a variety of works, including documents, patents, theses, books and even specific chapters from books. . For our introductory purposes here we will focus on ordering a book, Douglas Sladen’s Oriental Cairo. Select the "Request a Book" option.

The Loan Request Screen you see provides you with a list of everything you need to locate a book through Illiad. This is where we will return once we have all of the information we need to satisfy the requirements. You could order a book with just the name of the author and the title. However, the more information you have the more likely it is that the Interlibrary Loan department will be able locate your work. Also, the easier you make it for the staff to find the work, the faster it will be processed. Make a note here of the types of information the staff needs to process your order.

Illiad form for interlibrary loan requests Locating the information you need to order a book.One of the easiest ways to gather all of the information you need to order a book through Illiad is to locate the book through WorldCat, which contains catalog records from thousands of libraries around the world. You can access WorldCat by visiting the Fondren homepage, selecting the Catalog option and then selecting the Other Library Option. Scroll down a bit and you will see the WorldCat link. As an example we will bring up “Oriental Cairo” to show you where to look for the information you need and then to point out a short cut. Enter the title in the Title textbox select the Search option.

Searching WorldCat Select the full record for your search result. We have the author’s full name, title, date of publication, publication place and publisher, everything we need to order the book through interlibrary loan.

WorldCat result for "Oriental Cairo" We could head back to Illiad's request page at this point to enter our information, but we have one more service option to explore. Take a quick look under the Get This Item heading just below the title information at the top. Notice the Interlibrary loan option.

If you select this option, WorldCat will take you directly to Illiad at your library and automatically enter all of the information you need to order the book, including the libraries in which it is available. What next?All you have to do now is to wait. ILL will contact you when your book arrives or with any problems they have in ordering it. If you wish to check on the status of your order, just head back to the Illiad home page and select that option near the bottom of the list.