Health Sciences & Social Work: Finding Books and DVDs

Department Research Guides identify and define standard information retrieval tools for a specific department. Each guide was created and is maintained by the library liaison for that department. We encourage you to recommend resources for the guides.

Inter-Library Loan

ILLiad: Get books not available through I-Share and journal articles not accessible at our library.

If you are a first time user, you will need to get an account. If this looks confusing, please call the Reference Desk at 298-2700, or InterLibrary Loan at 298-2761.

WorldCat

WorldCat (FirstSearch)
WorldCat is the world's largest database of bibliographic information. It offers more than 43 million bibliographic records representing books all over the world. It's very easy to make interlibrary loan requests online.

West/Cat and I-Share

WestCat

Westcat is the WIU Libraries Online Catalog. Use it to locate books, DVDs and government publications owned by the WIU Libraries.  I-Share provides accesss to library holdings and interlibrary loan services to 76 Illinois libraries.  You must register with VuFind in order to borrow library materials. It's easy to  do, and once you have an account it will remain in the system. Also, you may renew books online.