Finding materials

No time for Interlibrary Loan (or not eligible for ILL services at SDSU)? Here are some tips for finding materials not held by the SDSU Library.

Visit a local San Diego library

Check the web site or call the reference department of the library you'd like to visit. Verify whether the item you need is owned at their library and whether you might be allowed to check out books. Sometimes there will be a fee or a wait to get library checkout privileges.

* SDSU students and faculty can check out books at these Circuit affiliated library.

Use a commercial document supplier

These vendors will provide photocopied documents and other interlibrary loan services for a fee:

If you're willing to travel farther afield, you may want to search other libraries' catalogs on the web.

Questions, comments, and suggestions are always welcome!

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