202 ยท Representative Documents: Material Retrieval Request Procedures
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Rutgers Delivery Service (RDS)
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Rutgers Delivery Service (RDS)
Need a book or journal article from another Rutgers Library? We'll get it for you!
Eligibility
How to Request Delivery
Cancellations
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Campuses and Libraries/Collections
The Rutgers Delivery Service (RDS) provides delivery of Rutgers resources among the Rutgers libraries and to off-campus pickup sites. We will also retrieve items from your local library
and hold them for you to pick up. Articles are delivered electronically as PDF documents.
Eligibility
Rutgers University students, faculty, and staff who are currently enrolled or employed may use the Rutgers Delivery Service. Students, faculty, and staff teaching or taking courses on
the Camden Urban Campus of Camden County College or Rowan University UMDNJ students, faculty, house staff, and staff covered by the reciprocal borrowing agreement between
Rutgers University Libraries and the University Libraries of UMDNJ or in joint Rutgers-UMD programs Emeritus faculty and students, faculty, and staff of the Rutgers Newark and
Camden law schools are also eligible for RDS. Alumni and community borrowers are not eligible for this service.
If you are not eligible to use the Rutgers Delivery Service, the following organizations offer document delivery to individuals for a fee and may be of interest: Infotrieve Document
Delivery and NYPL Express.
How to Request Delivery
Books
Find the record of the book you need in the Library Catalog and click on the "Book Delivery/Recall" button. Enter your NetID or library barcode, PIN, and select the library where
you want to pick up the book.
Use the "Item Special Request" button to request books under special circumstances:
You need a book delivered to a Rutgers law library or off-campus pickup site,
The item has a Status of ON-ORDER,
The item is in a Reference collection (REF) and you would like delivery to your local Rutgers library for 5 days of In-Library use.
The item is in a noncirculating library (ART, JAZZ, SPCOL/UA) or has a Type-Circulate? code ending in "-N" and you need delivery to a different Rutgers campus for 5 days of
In-Library use (Camden, New Brunswick/Piscataway, Newark).
If all Rutgers copies of a book are CHECKEDOUT, search the PALCI catalog and if the item is available, place an E-ZBorrow request for quick delivery from another academic library.
You may also recall a CHECKEDOUT item in the Library Catalog using the "Book Delivery/Recall" option and request delivery to any Rutgers pickup library. The person who
currently has the item will be notified to bring it back within 14 days.
Telephone requests to retrieve, deliver and hold books are not accepted you must use the request forms in the Library Catalog or the PALCI (E-ZBorrow) catalog.
Chapters in Books
Pages and chapters in circulating books are not eligible for the article delivery service. Please request delivery of circulating books using the "Book Delivery/Recall" button in the
Library Catalog.
Journal Articles
Logon to the Interlibrary Loan and Article Delivery Services web page and select the "Article Request" form. Enter as much information about your article as possible.
If you request an article over 30 pages for delivery from a library on a different campus (Camden, New Brunswick/Piscataway, or Newark), the entire volume will be delivered for
to your pickup library for five days of in-library use. If you request an article over 30 pages from a library on your home campus(Camden, New Brunswick/Piscataway, or Newark),
your request will be cancelled please retrieve and copy the article yourself. Copyright regulations preclude copying journal issues in their entirety.
If you request an article in a periodical that circulates (PERIODICL-Y), the entire volume will be sent to your pickup library.
If you submit more than 10 requests at one time they will be processed as time permits and you may be contacted to prioritize your requests.
Materials that are ON-ORDER, PENDING, or IN-PROCESS
Use the "Item Special Request" button to request items that have a Status of ON-ORDER. Use the "Book Delivery/Recall" button to request items that are PENDING or IN PROCESS.
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