Other alternatives to interlibrary loan include:
Location service
It may be more practical for some readers to use books and periodicals at the library which holds them rather than request them on interlibrary loan. For periodicals, you may refer readers on the basis of the Nassau-Suffolk Union List of Serials. Please check the list of participating libraries in the front of volume 1 which notes some limitations of public access to materials in certain libraries.
For monographs, call LILRC and ask for a check of a few libraries in the microfilms of card catalogs to get locations for needed items.
Research Loan Program
Through this program, patrons of participating libraries have direct access, including circulation privileges, to specific subject area collections in other participating libraries. In lieu of numerous interlibrary loan requests, libraries may wish to recommend their readers take advantage of this program. The latest LILRC membership list indicates libraries which have joined this program. Details are available in all participating libraries and from LILRC.
INFORMATION NETWORK SERVICE-How it works
Requests are received daily from participating libraries by teletype and on LILRC interlibrary loan forms by mail and delivery service. A limited number of urgent requests may be received by telephone. All requests are transcribed onto LILRC request forms if they have not arrived on that form.