Borrow, Return, Renew & Reserve: 9. Can't find the book?

First, please make sure you follow the steps in the guide to find out that the book you are looking for is not in our book collection.

What you do when the book is not in the collection of our library ?

You can either

i) Recommend book for purchase (all users)

ii) Do a inter-library loan of the book (all users)

If the book you are looking for is stored in library collection, please feel free to make a recommendation to us. 

Do note that although both students and staff can recommend books for purchase, recommendations will be assessed based on whether it meets the library collection development scope. 

Depending on availability of the book, book rush orders can take up to 12 weeks or more.

How to recommend books?

You could login the library catalogue system to suggest books via URL https://opac.xjtlu.edu.cn.

To establish a reputation as a research-led University, the University Library strives to meet your teaching, learning and research needs. The Library has provided interlibrary loan and document delivery service, which will help you find and borrow materials (not available in our collections) from our cooperative libraries.

Currently, we have set up inter-library relationship with National Library of China, Shanghai Library and been a part of inter-library net of Chinese Academic Library and Information System (CALIS).

For further information, please check Inter-Library Loan Service.