Interlibrary Loan
Materials needed, but not owned by the Tucker Library, can be borrowed from other libraries. The library participates in several networks to expedite interlibrary communications and loans. Volumes at the bindery or missing may be borrowed at no charge. Delivery is within two to five days. Articles are often sent to you as PDFs via e-mail. This service is for National Jewish Health employees only.
Check the Impulse Catalog or the E-Journal Finder to see if we own the article or book before requesting an interlibrary loan.
The charge for interlibrary loan requests is $5.00, charged to your 8 digit cost center number or grant number.
Requests may be made via
All requests must include your
- full name
- telephone number
- cost center number
- Accurate citation
- MEDLINE UI or PMID, if the citation is from a MEDLINE search
When ordering articles found in Ovid/MEDLINE or PubMed, we request that you include the MEDLINE "UI" number, a Unique Identifier found at the top of an Ovid citation and at the bottom of a PubMed citation (PMID). You can verify a poor citation and get the MEDLINE UI at PubMed's Citation Matcher for Single Articles.
The library participates in the DOCLINE and OCLC interlibrary loan systems. DOCLINE is run by the National Library of Medicine and accesses the resources of over 3, 000 health sciences libraries holding more than 50,000 titles. The OCLC's WorldCat Resource Sharing includes over 5,000 libraries of all types and uses the FirstSearch WorldCat database of 41,000,000 records for books and journals. Through these systems we also have access to the British Library and Canada Institute for Scientific & Technical Information (CISTI).
Relevant Numbers and Codes:
- DOCLINE: ZAL61
- OCLC: DNB
- ARIEL: 205.143.252.44
- Fax: (303) 270-2149
- Voice: (303) 398-1482
