Interlibrary Loans
Active students and staff at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology can request interlibrary loans of material not found at any of the libraries at Lund University. Students and staff at other faculties are requested to turn to their own faculty/departmental library: All Faculty / Department Libraries
- If the book you are requesting is not available, either in print or electronically, at any of the libraries at Lund University or at the public libraries in Lund, you may request it via interlibrary loan. Due to e-book licensing restrictions, we are unfortunately only able to provide interlibrary loans of printed books.
- Only material intended for study or research purposes within our faculties may be requested through the Libraries of the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology. For students, this means that there must be a clear connection between the requested material and the course for which you are registered at the HT Faculties during the current semester. If you wish to request interlibrary loans for other purposes, please contact your nearest public library.
- Journals cannot be requested via interlibrary loan; however, copies of individual articles may be ordered for a fee.
- If your request concerns the consultation of only a few specific pages or references, please indicate this in your request. In such cases, instead of ordering an expensive loan, we will try to obtain copies of the specified pages.
- Book loans from libraries within the Nordic countries: free of charge
- Book loans from libraries outside the Nordic countries: SEK 150 per book
- Photocopies of journal articles: SEK 80 per copy, regardless of source
Photocopies of more extensive works, such as theses, are usually more expensive. In such cases, please contact us for information about applicable fees. Payment is made at the information desk.
Interlibrary loan costs for researchers and teaching staff at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology are covered by the faculties.
Please note: Additional charges may apply if imposed by the lending library.
Search our local systems before requesting an interlibrary loan
If the book or article you are looking for is available at any of the libraries at Lund University, interlibrary loans will not be approved, regardless of whether the item is currently on loan or not. Please always search in the search tool Finn first. Books published before 1957 are sometimes not listed in Finn or LIBRIS, but may be found in the University Library's digitised card catalogue Katalog –1957. If the book or the journal is not available in either Finn or Katalog –1957, you may submit an interlibrary loan request.
Order via our interlibrary loans request form
Previously, interlibrary loans could be requested in two ways: directly via LIBRIS or via our request form. As the National Library of Sweden will discontinue Libris patron requests this summer, we encourage you to start using our interlibrary loans request form as soon as possible.
Note that books we need to order outside the EU cannot be delivered as fast as orders from inside the EU due to custom processes. If possible we purchase those books instead.
Renew interlibrary loans
Do you need to renew your interlibrary loans? Please submit your renewal request using this form. You cannot renew your interlibrary loans at the library information desk.
The Swedish Media Database, SMDB, is a search service for the audiovisual collections at the National Library of Sweden (KB). The database contains information about programmes that have aired on TV or radio, about videos, movies presented in theaters, CDs, and multimedia. The SMDB covers most Swedish broadcasts and publications since 1979, but contains older material as well.
Audiovisual recordings needed for research projects, may be requested directly from the SMDB. The research project must first be approved by the National Library of Sweden.
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