Borrowing

If you have questions about accessing or finding materials. Please email, phone us, or drop by the circulation desk at either campus.

• Troy Circulation Desk: 244-4546

• Troy Reference Desk: 244-2431

• Albany Circulation Desk: 244-1721

• Albany Reference Desk: 292-1945

Books and Media

• • If you cannot find a book in the catalog, locate the book in WorldCat and place an Interlibrary Loan Request using the WorldCat Sage Illiad Interlibrary Loan link embedded in WorldCat records.

  • If you find a book in the catalog but it is on the opposite campus, storage, or otherwise inaccessible, use the “Place a Hold” Function in Libraries’ Catalog to request a book (click here for short tutorial on placing holds):

Login:             MySage Username
Password:     MySage Password

• Delivery between campuses occurs once daily, Monday-Friday. (There will be no weekend delivery, however, so books requested late on Friday, Saturday or Sunday will not arrive at the opposite campus until the following Monday morning.)

• You will receive an email once requested materials are available. To ensure that you receive the email, when you place the hold, check the hold messaging option in your account profile in the Sage Koha system.

• Books will be placed on the hold shelf of the campus you designate when placing the hold. You can place holds on books whether a book is in another location or the regular shelves. This service applies to all Sage Libraries’ materials regardless of campus.

Journal Articles

• Process of requesting journal articles is the same whether the article is owned by Sage or by another library.

• Use ILLiad Interlibrary Loan to place a journal article request. We will scan the article and deliver it electronically (click here for short tutorial on requesting Periodical Articles.)

  The process of requesting an article is the same whether the article is owned by Sage or by another institution. To access your ILLiad account:

  Login:             MySage Username
  Password:     MySage Password
  

  If you have forgotten your MySage password, see the Password Reset page.

• Library staff will retrieve the article from storage, scan the article, post it to the ILLiad Interlibrary Loan server and email you a link to the scanned article.

• For ILL questions, Email or call our ILL Librarian, Christopher White, [email protected], 244-4521.