Resource and Interlibrary Services

Current UW-Parkside students, staff, faculty, and emeritus faculty may request materials from other libraries. Community patrons are not eligible, but may be able to request items through their local public library.

Available items include articles, book chapters, books, CDs, and DVDs. However, some items can be more difficult to get than others, including textbooks, conference proceeding papers, dissertations, major motion pictures, best sellers, and study guide/test preparation manuals.

Additionally, archival material, rare books, reference works, entire issues of periodicals and e-books are usually not available.

Most materials are available for free to UW-Parkside students, staff, faculty, and emeritus faculty. If a fee is required, we may cancel the request, pay for the charge, or pass the charge along to you. We will seek your approval of any potential charges.

You will get a notification at your UWP email address.

Log in to Your Library Account. Your can see a list of active requests and their status.

For articles or book chapters: Approximately 1-3 business days

For books or other physical materials: Approximately 3-5 business days

There are no limits to the number of requests you can place. However, numerous requests may slow down processing.

Pick up physical materials within 10 days of being notified, or we will send them back to the lending library. The notification email will have the date the hold will expire.

Articles and digital book chapters will expire after 30 days, so view/download them before then.

Renewal availability is determined by the lending library and may not be available for all items. Libraries may deny renewals if there is a hold for another user or if you've reached the maximum number of renewals.

To renew items, log in to Your Library Account.

Return physical items to the UWP Library or other UW library. If you return items to another UW library, please email rislib@uwp.edu.

You do not need to return digital materials, as they will automatically expire after 30 days.

The UW-Parkside Library does not control other libraries' late fees, fines, or replacement costs. You must pay those fees or negotiate with the lending library to adjust them.

You should not rely on getting textbooks from other libraries to use for your courses.

While you can request them, there are several limitations. Many libraries do not purchase current textbooks, and if they do, they often reserve them for their own students. Loan periods for textbooks are typically short (about one month) with limited (if any) renewals.