InterLibrary Loaning

The biggest problem you hear with smack college towns is that on weekends when there isn’t anything to do, a small college town can get boring. Not just any type of boring, but unjustly, drive you insane type of boring. Kids that are on their way into higher learning will often ask, “What do college kids do for fun (when there isn’t a game or function to attend)?” I, being the upper echelon college student that I am, would answer simply, “Video games and/or movies.” Video games and movies are the savior of college students. I bet the average student spends 16 hours a week between the two. A college student will tell you he/she is piss poor. That couldn’t be any closer to the truth. We are indeed broke. So acquiring the newest video game or the latest dvd is probably not the most fiscally responsible choice for us financially struggling college kids. Thanks to this neat little trick I learned a couple weeks ago, acquiring these video games and dvd’s will not only be affordable, but it is free. This feature is called InterLibrary Loaning. InterLibrary Loaning allows you to rent books, cds, movies, videos games, or anything else you can find in a library for free. If the library you belong to doesn’t have what you need, the nearest library that owns a copy will ship it to your library for you to check it out. The steps are quite simple

• ·         Go to MSU libraries
• ·         Quicklinks to ILLAD
• ·         Sign in then start searching for the item you desire
• ·         Choose the loan it button.

When your item arrives an email will be sent to you telling you that your item is available for pick up. Once you are done with the item return it back to the InterLibrary loan office. Nothing in life is free. So remember, if you don’t return an item you will be charged. That is the only catch to this feature. GET TO LOANING