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Document Delivery: A Service for Online and Distance Students

You can request books and/or periodical articles be sent to you if you are taking classes at another location or online courses and are unable to come to the MCC campus.

Links to Online Forms

Requests will be delivered in five working days - weekends and holidays will effect the turnover time. These services are available at no charge, with the exception of any overdue fines that you might incur if an item is not returned on time.

Article Requests - To request an article from the McLennan Community College Library, verify that we have the periodical and year needed by consulting the Online Catalog (select from the drop-down box "Journal/Newspaper Title Search").

Articles are emailed to the address submitted in the request. You must have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to read the PDF file that will be sent.

Check more than one of our library subscription databases before requesting an article copy. If the article you have requested is available full-text in one of our databases, the library will send instructions to you on how to find the full-text. Article requests are limited to 15 pages/request and 10 articles/semester.

Book Requests - To request a book from the McLennan Community College Library, consult the Online Catalog. If the book is already checked out, you may have a library staff member put the item on hold (this option is on the online form or you may call 299-8325).

The book(s) will arrive by mail to the mailing address you have provided. You will be subject to the same lending periods as books checked out on campus. You can checkout 5 books per topic and a maximum of 10 items.

In order to return library books, you have two choices:

Come to the MCC campus library,

Mail the items in the package you received, making sure to insure the package for $40 (cost $1.30). This insurance will be your receipt verifying the return and date.