Interlibrary loan (ILL) is the process by which a library requests material from or supplies material to another library. No Journal or Scholar student should need to buy books.
If the Law Library and the Blume Library don't have the book or resource you need, you can request that material through ILL, and we will borrow the item for your use. Before requesting an item through ILL, please check the library catalog to see if you already have access to the resource.
ILL requests will NOT be filled for textbooks or for items SKELL or the Blume library already has access to, either in print or electronically. To request an item from ILL, please fill out this ILL Request Form or email Professor Stacy Fowler at sfowler@stmarytx.edu with as much information about the resource as possible:
Before submitting ILL requests for cite checks, please review our Citation Verification Checklist for help with locating sources. When requesting items through ILL for citation checks, please include the page number(s) used in the citation so we can request PDF scans, which are easier and faster to obtain. If a particular resource is cited heavily by an author, the entire book may be requested.
Complete runs of the law school's journals are available here:
The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice