Gather complete bibliographic information. You will need full titles with no abbreviations, full names of authors, complete volume, number, and pages, and accurate dates.
Verify your citation, i.e., indicate where a reference to the item you want may be located in a catalog, index, bibliography, or database. Give full information for that source, including year, volume, page number, or database accession number. Consult with Reference if you need help.
Make certain that what you need is not in the Middlebury College Library by thoroughly searching MIDCAT and any appropriate full-text sources.
Indicate a date after which you will no longer need the item. Be assured that your request will be acted upon immediately. This date simply tells us when it is no longer useful to keep trying to get an item which has been difficult to find.
Keep an accurate record of what you have requested. Duplications waste money and repeated photocopy requests may violate copyright regulations.
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