National Library of Estonia: social sciences, liberal arts
Estonian Academic Library: natural sciences
Tartu University Library: liberal arts, natural sciences, medicine, technology
Tallinn Technical University Library: technology, economics
Medical Library of Estonia: medicine
Estonian Agricultural University Library: agriculture
Tallinn Pedagogical University Library: social sciences, pedagogics
Estonian Patent Library: patent literature
Estonian Standard Library: standards
Estonian Children's Literature Information Centre: children's literature
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ILL Centres in the county and in the cities are county and city libraries
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The national lending system is built up from smaller to bigger: the village libraries send their requests to county libraries, where the order is either fulfilled or sent forward to the National Library of Estonia or any special research library in the Republic
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The research libraries fulfil the requests of their readers, from other libraries of Estonia and from abroad on the ground of their collections.
It is possible to order books or photocopies with electronic request form via WWW from the National Library of Estonia, Estonian Academic Library, Tallinn Technical University Library and Tartu University Library
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The joint electronic catalogue of the Estonian research libraries became accessible in January 1999, making it possible to search the integrated information system
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International loan is used if the patron's request cannot be satisfied within the Republic and the user agrees to pay the postal costs
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IFLA forms are used for these orders
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Fax and e-mail requests are accepted
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Charges for postal costs
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Requests have to be fulfilled during three working days. Requests that need bibliographic checking fulfilled during five working days. Requests that are satisfied by making copies have to be fulfilled during one week
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Renewals allowed unless the item is requested by another user
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Restrictions: newspapers, records, tapes, CDs, manuscripts, maps, original graphic, art albums, reference books, books from archival collection are not lent out
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The sending library pays postal costs
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Postal costs for returning documents to the supplying library must be covered by the reader
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The requesting library is responsible for the loss or damage of the documents and for the returning the documents to the supplying library in time