The Libraries’ Tripsaver has changed to Interlibrary Services

New name, same great service! The Libraries’ Tripsaver—which includes interlibrary loan among other useful services—is changing its name to Interlibrary Services. The name change will take place at the start of the fall 2025 semester.

Interlibrary Services allows students, faculty, and staff to access articles and books from other libraries and digital delivery vendors—for free. Yes, this means that you can check out materials from other libraries all over the world. If we don't have what you need at a campus location, Interlibrary Services will get it for you by request, at no cost.

Mia Partlow, the Libraries’ resource sharing librarian, says “the name Tripsaver has been around for decades, but the service has evolved past saving users a trip to the physical library. We're requesting more articles, book chapters, and even ebooks than ever before, and supporting researchers in innovative ways, such as our new service for systematic review teams. We're excited about this next chapter for Interlibrary Services.”

In addition to all of the existing Tripsaver services, Interlibrary Services will offer two new features:

• Bulk ILL allows you to share spreadsheets or citation manager files of multiple materials requests, and the Libraries will handle placing all the requests for you. 
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) makes your PDFs searchable and machine-readable. OCR enables Ctrl+F within the PDF and changes it from an image to a text file that you can copy/paste from. PDFs in a non-Latin script—such as Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, or Russian—may need special processing.