Sometimes you already have a citation or an item can't be found in LibrarySearch (this happens a lot with books and musical scores). Sometimes the request feature doesn't quite work the way it is intended to. In these cases, you will need to initiate a request manually. Below are two examples: one of an article, the other of a book . Other types of material have similar forms.
Say you needed to request the following APA-style reference:
Sullivan, T. A. (1982). Introducing Sociology Through Literature. Teaching Sociology, 10(1), 109-116.
Select Article from the New Requests menu.
The following information is required by the form, but fill in as much non-required information as you can.
If you are missing a piece of required information, like volume number, you can write 'n/a' or 'missing'. Sometimes articles that don't have print copies also don't have page numbers, use 'n/a' here, too. If you are not sure about whether you've filled the form in correctly or not, you can ask for help or paste your reference citation in the notes field as a ward against confusion.
Similarly, if you have the following APA-style book reference:
Mills, C. W. (1959). The Sociological Imagination. Oxford University Press.
Select Book from the New Request menu.
The following information is required by the form, but fill in as much non-required information as you can.
If you are missing a piece of required information, like volume number, you can write 'n/a' or 'missing'. Sometimes articles that don't have print copies also don't have page numbers, use 'n/a' here, too. If you are not sure about whether you've filled the form in correctly or not, you can ask for help or paste your reference citation in the notes field as a ward against confusion.