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TOP TEN FEATURES OF ILL/ODUM EXPRESS AT ODUM LIBRARY
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It’s free … almost. Less than 3% of ILL requests last year had any charge at all, so chances are you won’t pay for any book or article you request. And if there is going to be a charge, we’ll notify you to let you decide before we do anything further. |
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Unlike GIL Express, which is limited to the nine million items in the Universal Catalog of the University System of Georgia, ILL/Odum Express accesses a system called OCLC whose holdings you can find in GALILEO’s Worldcat database. It contains over sixty million items from libraries in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, and it is possible to borrow from some libraries overseas. |
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Your request gets the personal attention of our staff. We will e-mail or call if we need further information from you, and we will keep trying until we get the material or until the date you stipulate. If the request is cancelled, we will always provide a valid reason. And if the item is actually in our library or one of the GALILEO databases, we will check our shelves or the databases and tell you where to find it. |
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It’s not just for books; you can request photocopies of articles or chapters of books. You can request government documents, music scores, conference proceedings, and doctoral dissertations or master’s theses. |
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All articles are delivered electronically to your ILLIAD account, which means you can pick them up anywhere you have access to a computer, the internet, and a browser, so you could could be halfway across town or halfway across the world in a VSU study program. You don’t have to come to the library to get the articles you request. |
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Last year the average time from when you place a request till the time we notify you it is here was 3.56 days for articles and 8.64 days for books. Since this is an average, there are many items that will arrive here sooner than that. |
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Faculty members and full-time staff members can request returnable materials and articles from our library to be delivered to their department’s office where they receive their mail by filling out request forms for books or articles in ILLIAD. GIL Express books and ILL books will also be delivered to the office as well, and they can call or e-mail us for returns. |
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Students who are only enrolled in Distance Education courses can request returnable materials and articles from our library to be delivered to them at home at no charge, but they are responsible for returning them at their own cost. |
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If you fill out a book request with full publishing information, including the ISBN number, our system is set up so that it can automatically process book requests as soon as they are placed with no human intervention, so your request can be filled that much faster. |
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Finally, if you do your research in the GALILEO databases, you can now request an article or book via ILL from right within the database. Just click on the blue Find It button. If we do not subscribe to the journal, a link to ILL – Odum Express ILLiad Logon Account appears in the box. Click on it, and the logon to ILLIAD appears. Log on to ILLIAD, and the article, book chapter, or book citation you were looking at in GALILEO will be neatly filled in on the appropriate GALILEO workform – all you have to do is click the Submit Request button. |
Now that you know all this, you have no more excuses for not using ILL/Odum Express. If you have questions or comments, contact us at (229) 333-5867, ill@valdosta.edu , or 
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