Library Guides: GS 191 Freshman Experience: Library Services

Interlibrary Loan

Interlibrary Loan

This library service allows current Purdue Northwest faculty, students, and staff to borrow materials not owned by our library.

Tipasa is the cloud-based management system used for interlibrary loan requests.

Hammond Campus Tipasa

Westville Campus Tipasa

In very rare cases, a fee might be required for the requested item. If this is the case, the patron will be contacted by the interlibrary loan staff for approval to proceed with the request.

Books are generally delivered within six days, and articles are generally received within a few days. Patrons are notified via email when materials are available for pick up. Electronic articles and book chapters are delivered to the patron’s Tipasa account.

Interlibrary Loan Office
Hours of Operation
Monday – Friday 8:00am-5:00pm

For questions or assistance with interlibrary loan requests, contact:

Hammond Campus

Eloise M. Gonzalez
Circulation and Interlibrary Loan Staff
gonzael@pnw.edu
(219)989-2679

Westville Campus

Liz Bunton
Interlibrary Loan Clerk

ebunton@pnw.edu

(219) 785-5316

How to Request from other campuses

How to Request From other Purdue Libraries

From the Library’s homepage
Search for the book/subject you are looking for
You will get a list of books that the libraries own as well as eBooks and articles the PNW Library owns.
Log in using your Purdue login information

Once logged in, you can click on the record to display the availability and request information, and see which location owns the material.

(In this example you will see Westville and Purdue West Lafayette own this book)

Click on the library you would like the material from
Click Request

Fill out the necessary information and click Send request
- (Please note the pickup date is not needed after the date)