My ILL Requests

Help Table of Contents Sign in My Requests My Requests Search Results My Request Search Result Details My Request Sort by Due Date Create a new request Cancel Renew Exception Timeout Close

Sign in Sign in to check the status of your ILL requests. You do not need to sign-in to create a new request. How to Sign-in: Enter your Library card number PIN (if your home campus is UCB, UCD, UCM, or UCSB) Choose your home campus Click on the submit button Close | Go to top

Create a New Request By using a Melvyl Search This option begins a Melvyl Catalog session. You can then create a Request from a Melvyl record.   By using Citation Linker This option opens the Citation Linker blank form. Fill in as much information as you can the click submit. Choose Request from the resulting UC-eLinks menu. Close | Go to top

My Requests View and track the status of your Interlibrary Loan requests. You may sort requests by the ID number, author, title, or need by date from the Request Details screen. You may also specify how many requests to display per page. Close | Go to top

My Requests Search Results A brief summary of the requests you've sent to your library's Interlibrary Loan department. The brief displays includes ILL number, title, author, ILL status, authorization status, and need by date. To see more information on a particular item, click View. Close | Go to top

My Requests Sort by Due Date Sort by due date ascending: This brings all items with due dates to the top of the ILL items list and presents the item with the nearest calendar due date at the top, after the items with due dates, your other ILL requests will appear.   Sort by due date descending: Because you are sorting by due date, all items without due dates will appear before items with due dates. If there is a long list of items that don't have due dates, it may take several screens to see the items with due dates. Once these items appear, they will appear in reverse due date order, with the due date farthest away appearing first. Close | Go to top

My Requests Search Result Details Request details shows one record at a time and provides all of the information available for that item. To return to the list of records click on the Request list link. Close | Go to top

Cancel Click on the Cancel link in the detailed view of a request to send a message to your campus library asking the staff to cancel your ILL request for an item that has not yet been filled. This brings up an email form for you to complete Close | Go to top

Renew Click on the Renew link in the detailed view of a request to send a message to your campus library asking them to renew your loan for an item borrowed through ILL. Renewals are not automatic. They must be approved by the lending library. This link brings up an email form for you to complete. Close | Go to top

Exception If you see this message, an error has occured, please notify your library's help desk. Close | Go to top

Timeout Your session will timeout after a period of 15 minutes of inactivity, and you will automatically be logged out. Click on Sign In to log back in. Close | Go to top