If you need to make use of the Interlibrary Loan service, please contact Paige Crumbley, Librarian for Research and Interlibrary Loan. It would be best to see her in person, but you may also reach her via e-mail at paige.crumbley@hawks.huntingdon.edu, or by calling campus extension 4560.
If we must go outside the state of Alabama, there may be a charge the lending library will assess for the loan of an item or the copying of a journal article. Ms. Crumbley can discuss this with you.
Interlibrary loan is a service libraries provide whereby resources can be borrowed from other libraries for the benefit of users.
As a student, or faculty or staff member at Huntingdon, this means that if we don't have access to an item you need (such as a journal article or a book, either in print or electronically, or some other type of resource) we can search to find another library that does have the item and see if it is willing to loan the item to us for your use. We also loan out items from our collections to other libraries.
The Interlibrary Loan service is not restricted by geography. If there is an item you need, while we will first see if there is a library in Alabama that can provide it, we can go outside Alabama - and even outside the United States (in the past we have borrowed from as far away as Australia) to get the resource you need. Likewise, we have had requests to loan items from our library from as far away as South Africa. So, it really is a global service!
Keep in mind that as a student at Huntingdon, or as a member of the faculty or staff, you have check-out privileges at several college/university libraries in Montgomery. With a valid consortium sticker on your Huntingdon ID (you get the sticker from our circulation desk), you may go to the libraries of:
Alabama State University
Auburn University Montgomery
Troy University Montgomery
Faulkner University
You may check out up to five (5) items from anyone of these libraries. This privilege is brought to you through a cooperative agreement among the five (5) libraries of the Montgomery Higher Education Consoritum.
