• Interlibrary Loan Policy Statement
• Who May use InterLibrary Loan
• Borrowing Requests
• Copyright
• Fees
• Processing Time
• Distribution of Materials
• Lending
• Types of Materials Available
• Types of Materials that will/will not lend
• Rush Services
• Charges

INTERLIBRARY LOAN POLICY STATEMENT

Chalmer Davee Library supplements its holdings through Interlibrary Loan (ILL), borrowing needed materials from other libraries to support the educational, research, and general needs of our University community. The ILL department is also responsible for lending materials owned by our library to institutions requesting them to answer their patrons needs. Procedure for ILL services are based on the National Interlibrary Code, 1993 and the Copyright Law.

WHO MAY USE INTERLIBRARY LOAN

Interlibrary Loan services are available to students, faculty, and staff. Community patrons must use services available through their Public Library.

BORROWING REQUESTS

Request forms are available online from the ILL page. Fifteen requests per patron per month may be issued. Requests are edited by Reference staff to ensure that they are complete. They are then sent to the ILL office to be transmitted electronically or by mail.

COPYRIGHT

In order to meet copyright guidelines the patron is required to sign the Photocopy request form acknowledging the requirements of copyright law.

FEES

Because Interlibrary loan is considered a service for students, faculty, and staff of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, no service charge is assessed for locating and requesting materials for academic use. The cost of fees required for requests sent to the Wisconsin Interlibrary Loan department in Madison (WILS) on behalf of undergraduates, graduates, faculty, and staff are absorbed by Chalmer Davee Library. However, undergraduates and graduates are responsible for any fees, such as photocopy charges, postage reimbursement, or handling fees, imposed by lending institutions other than member libraries. All costs incurred for requests submitted by staff or faculty are absorbed by Chalmer Davee Library.

PROCESSING TIME

Requests are sent to as many as five libraries, each library is given three days to answer a request. Patrons are informed that a period of five to seven days is the minimum amount of time before a request may be expected to be filled.

DISTRIBUTION OR MATERIALS

Materials requested through ILL are held at the Circulation desk for distribution by
patrons. Due to the volume of requests received by ILL, the responsibility of contacting
or stopping by at the Circulation desk to ascertain arrival of material is left to the patron.
Members of faculty and staff are informed through campus mail of the arrival of their
requested material.

LENDING

Any library may request materials from our library. The request must abide by conditions set forth in the National Interlibrary Loan Code and the Copyright Law. Requests are received through the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), fax, ALA form, voice, and e-mail. Chalmer Davee Library ILL attempts to maintain as generous a lending policy as possible.

TYPES OF MATERIAL AVAILABLE

Chalmer Davee lends materials that are available from the circulating collection. This includes some videos, sound recordings, and circulating Government Document and Archival materials. Books are loaned for a 28 day period. Videos are on loan for a two week period. Renewals are allowed on a case by case basis. Photocopies are available with a limit of 50 pages.

TYPES OF MATERIAL WE WILL NOT/CANNOT LEND

We do not lend newspapers, entire issues of periodicals, specific archival, specific government documents, reference, or reserve material.

RUSH SERVICE

We will provide this service at the expense of the requesting library. We will implement whatever delivery method they stipulate if it is available and reasonable for us to utilize.

CHARGES

Charging a lending fee for photocopy service to libraries who are not reciprocal was implemented in September, 1995. Our fee is $4.00 for up to 50 pages of copy. Chalmer Davee Library does not charge non-profit libraries located in Wisconsin. Our policy provides two methods payment. We provide an invoice on the request copy accompanying material shipped out. We also utilize the OCLC Interlibrary Loan Fee
Management program which allows us to issue charges electronically.