Who can request books?
- Current faculty, staff, and students at non-Illinois extension sites (including Current Deerfield campus students outside a 60-mile radius of campus and those who are finishing their projects, theses, or dissertations remotely.
Who can request articles?
- All who can request books
- Current students living internationally (articles are delivered via Trinity email)
Who cannot use Distance Student Services?
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Students, faculty and staff of the South Chicago and Florida Regional Centers and Trinity Law School in California (each center has an on-site library).
Steps to take before requesting an item
- Check out your local library's interlibrary loaning policies - it is usually cheaper and faster.
- Students must be paying tuition, audit or continuation fees.
- Make sure you have access to your Trinity GroupWise or TriNet email account for receiving articles.
- Students not having a TrinCat account must fill out the "Patron Registration for Distance Services." (First try logging into My Account to see if your account is active.)
Books
- A maximum of 10 books may be requested per week.
- The loan period is based on your patron group. (For more information, see Library Circulation Policies.)
- Only books from Rolfing Library's main collection are available for loan to distance students.
- Books will be mailed via cheapest route (FedEx or USPS)
- Patron is responsible for postage costs both directions.
- For step-by-step requesting instructions, see the Distance Student Request Page.
Articles
- All articles will be sent to the patron's Trinity GroupWise or TriNet email account.
- There will be a fee of $1.00 per article.
- A maximum of 20 articles may be requested per week.
- For step-by-step article request instructions, see the Distance Student Request Page.
What if I am located Overseas?
You may still request Journal articles, since they will be emailed to your Trinity GroupWise email, but we cannot ship books overseas.
All articles will need to be opened in Adobe® Reader®, so you will need that software loaded on your computer.
Charges
- All charges will be posted to your library patron account.
- Charges of over $2.00 will be sent to the TIU Business Office by the 15th of each month to be added to your student account.
Lost Books
- When books that you have requested are lost in the mail you will be charged for the cost of the book - we recommend that you purchase insurance for the package.
