<p>does Duke library lend textbooks (on a short term basis - ab/ 2 weeks?)</p>
<p>they usually don’t really have textbooks, especially Lilly. But if Perkins or Lilly has a textbook, the book will be given out on a standard loan.</p>
<p>do they just have fun random books to loan out?</p>
<p>they might… but in general lilly has all the arts books and that’s about it. It’s a much smaller library than Perkins/Bostock. I am a science major and I never needed a book from lilly, not even a pleasure read, but they do have (almost) the entire collection of DVD’s and VHS tapes.</p>
<p>sometimes it’s possible, sometimes books for class are under reserve so anyone can see them and they’re always there. lilly is more fine arts, film, philosophy, some history, etc so it’s far more specialized than the branches on west, but if you’re feeling lazy or just incredibly swamped and can’t make it over in crunch time, you can request delivery to lilly (from any campus library, even ford in fuqua which is a trek) and you’ll get it in around 24hrs.</p>
<p>bluestar7, about the inter-library delivery - are you sure that’s right? I requested to do that once from Fuqua, but they refused it, saying that the service is not for undergrads, but for instructors and grad students.</p>
<p>You can definitely use the interlibrary loan. I requested 2 papers from the ILL this summer and got the PDFs a couple of weeks later. As for fuqua refusing it, maybe there are certain restrictions for undergrads?</p>
<p>i’ve only gotten one thing from ford - but it was three yrs ago, don’t remember if i needed to have my prof put in a request in my name, but it’s possible in some form or another.</p>
<p>otherwise, the service (from perkins/bostock –> lilly, vice versa, or any of the other specialized or grad school libraries) definitely works.</p>