Answered By: Loans & Membership Department
Last Updated: Sep 14, 2022     Views: 7891

NUS academic staff and graduate students who require books, not held by the NUS Libraries, for research or teaching purposes may request the Library to borrow them from other libraries via the interlibrary loan service.

We will try to purchase the books before we proceed to do an interlibrary loan from an external library outside NUS. The request form can be accessed via "Recommend Articles, Books & Other Materials for Purchase" under "Borrowing & Requests" menu in Library Portal. You need to log in to the Library Portal prior to filling in the form. 

Please note you do not have to check which library hold the item, the library staff will check on your behalf and choose the appropriate library to inter-library loan from.

If you are looking instead to transfer books from one NUS library to another NUS Library see intralibrary loan service.

When the request is fulfilled. you will be informed via email.

Note: The library that you choose to pick up the Interlibrary Loan item will be the same library you return it to. Items borrowed via Interlibrary loan have to be returned at the library you borrow it from.

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