Interlibrary loan is a service by which library material that is not held at the Library is provided from other libraries in Croatia for the users of the Library with the purpose of research and professional work and training. Furthermore, the Library of the Faculty of Law Osijek makes books loan and copying of library materials possible for the users of other libraries in Croatia and libraries in the region, mainly faculties of law with which the Library has a long term cooperation and formally established contact through the South East European Association of Law and Related Libraries.
Interlibrary loan from abroad for the users of our Library is carried out through National and University Library in Zagreb. The costs of loan and delivery incurred during the loan are paid by the Faculty for the employees of the Faculty and students if their request is exclusively for the purposes of research work and studying. The request is submitted to the Head of the Library by mail with data on required publication and upon Faculty Dean’s approval.
The approval for loan of library material from the Library is given by the Head of the Library. Interlibrary loan does not refer to the closed stack items of the Library or items that are not reprographed such as archival and rare books, reference publications, single issues of journals, doctoral and master’s theses and non-print holdings.
The materials received by interlibrary loan may be used only in the Library premises and the Library which requested and received an interlibrary loan is fully responsible therefor. Before submitting a request for interlibrary loan it is necessary to check whether the requested item is still in the holdings of the Library. Loan period for the Library items is 14 days whereas loan period for items from other libraries depends on the rules and deadlines for loan of the library of the origin. The Library can set shorter loan periods as well.
The requested copies of articles remain in permanent ownership of the users who is obliged to use the requested copy for the purposes of research i.e. professional work. Upon request of its users and users from other libraries in Croatia and region, the Library can deliver the requested documents by email, if the requested material is in digitised form in the requested library or if the document or the parts can be scanned in case of urgent delivery.
Interlibrary loan and delivery within Croatia and libraries in the region are free. The request for interlibrary loan of books and articles from the holdings of the Library can be submitted only by library staff on behalf of its users. The Request for materials from the holdings of the Library of the Faculty of Law Osijek is filled in the following form. The Request should be submitted to knjižnica@pravos.hr.