Research Guides: Vincent C. Immel Law Library Guide to Requesting Materials: Faculty Fellows

Getting Started as a Faculty Fellow

Before beginning your work as a faculty fellow we strongly encourage you to do the following:

Attend one of the faculty fellow workshops hosted by our research librarians
Meet individually with your faculty member's liaison to discuss research tips
Ask them to send an email to xlcirc@slu.edu asking us to authorize you to check out items on their behalf and for the length of time they want the permission to be authorized, e.g. until May 31, 2025. Without prior authorization, you will be unable to check out items for your faculty member. We strongly advise against checking out items for your faculty member on your personal account. You are responsible for all items on your own account and will be billed accordingly for lost or damaged items.

Search the SLU online catalog to see if the item your faculty member needs is available to be requested. If so, send an email to the xlcirc@slu.edu email account asking us to borrow the item for your faculty member. Please include the link to the catalog page where you found the item.

If the item is unavailable, you may need to make an ILLiad request. See "Requesting from ILLiad" below for more information.

How will I know when the item I have requested has come in?

Your faculty member will receive an email when the item you have requested is ready to be picked up.

How long will it take for my request to come in?

Items from our Locust Street offsite storage generally arrive in 24-48 hours.

SLULink and MOBIUS items generally take 3-5 business days.

What if I have requested an item for my professor on my account by mistake?

Requesting Articles

Article requests can include articles found in journals, newspaper articles, chapter requests, and statute requests.

All article requests should be made through ILLiad with two exceptions*:

Material that can be found full-text in one of our databases
Material that can be found in a bound journal, or on microform on the 5th or 6th floor of the law library.

First, check to see if the item you need is available at the law library or electronically through the SLU catalog. If unavailable, and you have complete citation information, log in to ILLiad and submit an article request.

Requesting from ILLiad

Before submitting an ILLiad request, check to see if the item you need is available at the law library or electronically through the SLU catalog. If unavailable, and you have complete citation information, log in to ILLiad and submit an article request. ILLiad, is a web-based interlibrary loan system, only available to current students, faculty, and staff at Saint Louis University Law School. Once you set up an ILLiad account you can:

Place, track, and keep a history of interlibrary loan requests.
Receive articles and photocopies electronically as Adobe PDF documents and view them for up to 30 days.

You will use your SLU credentials to sign in to your ILLiad account here. Should you need to set up an ILLiad account you will need to fill in the following information:

First Name
Last Name
E-Mail Address: must be your SLU e-mail address
Daytime Phone
Primary Address Line 1: enter "N/A"
Primary Address City: enter "N/A"
Primary Address State: enter "N/A"
Primary Address Zip: enter "N/A"
Status: Full or Part Time Law Student
Department: Law School

When filling out the request form be sure to include:

author
title
publisher
date
ISBN
Notes field: must include "Faculty Fellow Request" and the name of your faculty member.

The Notes field can contain 4,000+ characters. Tell us everything! You can put your entire citation here. If you have talked with a research librarian, let us know. The more we know, the better equipped we are at getting you what you request.

When your item comes in you will be notified via e-mail. You can pick it up at the circulation desk. You will need to sign a checkout slip acknowledging you picked the item up.

When filling out the request be sure to include:

volume
issue
date (when requesting from a newspaper)
year
page numbers
Notes field: must include "Faculty Fellow Request" and the name of your faculty member

Use the article request from to request book chapters for books not available in the SLU or MOBIUS catalogs, and statutes

Chapter Requests

Title
- Title of the book
Volume
- Volume number if it applies, N/A if it is a singular volume
Month/Day
- N/A because it is not applicable in this instance
Year
- Copyright year
Inclusive pages
- If you don't have this information in the citation, many times the TOC of books can be found online. Google books, Amazon previews, and publisher websites can be helpful for that information. If you can only find the page where the chapter begins, you can use "eoa" for end of article at the end, for example "23-eoa".
Article author
- Author of the article or editor of the book
Article title
- Here is where you would put the chapter number and the chapter title if there is one

Statutes

Journal title field
- Enter the name of the statute or code here, e.g. Illinois Compiled Statutes Annotated
Article title
- Enter the title of the section here e.g. Lien for Taxes
Publisher
Year or "Current"
Pages
- Section number e.g.§200/21-75
Notes
- Copy and paste the citation scheme and include if title page, TOC and copyright page and pocket parts are needed; if not there, a duplicate request will not be accepted.
Citation scheme: Cite: 35 ILL.Comp. Stat. Ann.200/21-75(West 2008)
- West's Smith-Hurd Illinois Compiled Statutes Annotated
  - Chapter 35. Revenue (Refs & Annos)
    - Property Taxes
    - Act 200. Property Tax Code (Refs & Annos)
    - Title 7. Tax Collection
    - Article 21. C (Refs & Annos)
    - Division 2. Enforcement Actions
    - Section 200/21-75 Lien for Taxes

At the bottom of the form, there is a "Notes" field. This field can contain 4,000+ characters. Tell us everything! You can put your entire citation here. If you have talked with a research librarian, let us know. The more we know, the better equipped we are at getting you what you request.

ILLiad Frequently Asked Questions

How long will it take for my request to come in?

The length of time it takes for a request comes in is individual to each request. Books generally take more time than articles, but it all depends on if the library we request the item from has it on their shelves and how quickly they can send it out to us.

How long can I keep my requests?

Due dates depend on the lending library. Some libraries will give a long due date, but not allow renewals while others have a shorter due date, but one renewal. If the due date is close and we are not able to renew the item, we ask that you scan any sections you need and return the item so it can be sent back to the lending library.

Articles will stay in your ILLiad account for 30 days. We encourage you to download and save or print your articles when you receive them.

How do I renew my item?

Send an email to the xlcirc@slu.edu with the TN number of your item and we will request a renewal from the lending library.

ILL Tips

If you can't find the book or article you are looking for, see one of our research librarians for more information. Research librarians will help you vet your citations, ILL will help you get your requests.
- Page numbers are essential when looking for print articles in newspapers
- Some articles are "born online" and won't have the page numbers you need to find a print copy. See a research librarian to help you with your citation.
Request early! ILLiad books generally take longer to come in than MOBIUS items, so request your items as soon as you know you need them.
Keep the bands on the books. Bands include important information, including your due date and may include information about the condition of the book