Directions for Requesting Medical Materials

Requests For Medical Items Not Available At The State Library 

State Employees who have interlibrary loan requests for materials not held in the State Medical Library’s collection should contact Rinda Kramme at the State Library at 515/281-6920, 800/248-4483, or ill@lib.state.ia.us.  There is no charge for this service. Articles and books usually arrive in 3 to 10 days depending on the source. 

Persons who are not state government employees have a number of other options for obtaining materials.  

They include:  

Requesting items through local public libraries or other libraries that they are affiliated with. There may be a charge depending on the particular library’s policy. Des Moines area hospital libraries and universities also have medical materials available and will assist “walk-ins” with requests for specific books or journal titles housed in their collections. 

Journal articles held in the collections of the University of Iowa Hardin Library of the Health Sciences may be requested directly from the library for $7.00 an article. Telephone requests can be made for an additionl $5.00 per article requested or by fax for an additional $3.00. (For-profit institutions - $20.00)

Contact Information:

Web site: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/illa.html
Phone: 319/335-9874
Fax: 319/335-9897
E-mail: lib-hardin-ill@uiowa.edu 

Journal articles not held in Iowa can be requested directly from larger regional libraries or document delivery services. The University of Minnesota’s Biomedical Library in St. Paul has an extensive collection of medical materials. They copy and send out materials for a fee.

Contact Information:

Web site: http://www.biomed.lib.umn.edu/bis/bismain.html
Phone: 612/626-3730 or 800/477-6689
Fax: 612/626-3824 or 800/343-8636
E-mail: bis@umn.edu 

Document delivery service companies: 

CISTI- the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
Web site: http://cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/docdel/docdel_e.shtml 

The British Library Document Supply service at:
Web site: http://www.bl.uk/services/document/dsc.html 

Other document supply services at:
Web site: http://www.library.vcu.edu/tml/docsupp/AAA-FRAME-info.html