Interlibrary Loan Policy

Interlibrary loans are transactions in which library materials are made available from one library to another upon request.  An interlibrary loan is defined as a transaction in which the material moves from library to library.

The Dolton Public Library District will offer Interlibrary Loan (ILL) to persons presenting their valid System-wide borrowing card which has no delinquencies.  There are routinely no fees charged for ILL service, but charges incurred by the library will be passed on to the patron.

As a borrowing library:

• Dolton Public Library District will use ILL when requested materials are not available in our collection.
• Requests for new materials will first be considered for purchase.  If materials are not purchased, the requsts will be sent through ILL.
• If patron requests rush service, Library Staff will place a hold and call a lending library for materials.
• The Dolton Library Staff will not request any format or class of materials which the Dolton Library is not ready to lend.
• Library Staff will promptly pursue overdue materials in accordance with Suburban Library System's ILL policy.
• Library Staff will retain records of book request for a period of 1 year and periodical request for five years.

As a lending library:

• Library Staff will process all request for materials within 2 working days.
• All materials except Reference books will be loaned through ILL.
• Dolton Library will not honor requests for materials which have been added to Dolton's collection within the last month and which have had less than 2 circulations.
• Complete issues of magazines will be sent in response to an ILL request for the whole issue.
• Library Staff will promptly notify borrowing libraries when materials ar not available.
• Dolton Library provies ILL service without costs to the borrowing library.
• Library Staff promptly issues overdue notices in accordance with Suburban Library System's ILL policy.
• Charges for lost materials will be the price quoted in the SWAN database plus a processing fee of $5.00 on materials costing less than $10.00, and a fee of $10.00 on materials costing $10.00 or more.