InterLibrary Loan FAQs

  • General Questions

    Renewals are at the discretion of the lending library. In order to submit a renewal request to a lending library, please contact your branch library seven days prior to the due date.

    The time it takes to receive an InterLibrary Loan varies and could be up to several weeks. There are many factors that affect this. The availability of the item, the distance of the lending library, and the loan policy of the lending library all contribute to the length of time it takes to receive a requested item.

    The loan period is set by the lending library.

    The InterLibrary Loan system can't be used to borrow genealogy materials, but many materials are available through other sources. For information about the library's genealogy resources, please contact a reference librarian.

    The fine is $1.00 per day for each InterLibrary Loan item returned after the due date. In addition, if an InterLibrary Loan item is overdue, library users can't borrow any other library materials until it is returned.

    Ten InterLibrary Loan items can be checked out at one time.

    Library users can place up to five active InterLibrary Loans requests at one time.

    Books, audio-books, DVDs and CDs may be borrowed through InterLibrary Loan. The library is unable to borrow genealogy materials through InterLibrary Loan.