patron can read or copy the material himself.

Photocopies of missing pages

Missing pages from monographs and serials may be requested in the usual manner. For an additional fee, INS will try to obtain copies suitable for binding, printed on both sides.

Recall

It is understood that the lending library may recall a book needed for one of its own readers.

Renewals

Please request a renewal before the date due noted on the request form or in the volume. For books received from LILRC member libraries, call the LILRC office and give author, title, date due, library from which borrowed. Renewals will usually be granted for two weeks from date due unless a lending library has indicated otherwise.

Books received from the State Library or through NYSILL or the Regional Medical Library must be renewed directly with the lending library, not LILRC.

Returns

Books received from LILRC should be returned via our driver. Call and let us know you have a book to be returned.

Books received from the State Library or through NYSILL or the Regional Medical Library should be mailed directly to the lending library. The book usually arrives with a return label. The package in which it comes will give information regarding return address and insurance.

Status reports

Requests are processed and reports submitted to the requesting library as rapidly as possible. It is not always possible to give an immediate report on the status of an outstanding request in the process of being searched at a member library. Please hold requests for status reports to a minimum.

Guide to the use of LILRC Interlibrary Loan Request Forms

The number of interlibrary loan requests received by LILRC is steadily increasing. In order to process the requests efficiently we ask that requests be submitted either on the LILRC interlibrary loan request form or via teletype.

Please do not send requests on lists or in other formats. Telephone requests can be accepted only for a limited number of urgent requests.

Use the "book" request form for all monographs, reports, whole volumes of proceedings, transactions, congresses, etc.

Use "serials" request form for all articles from periodicals, papers from transactions, proceedings or congresses, and for chapters or other sections of books.

Please use LILRC interlibrary loan request forms only for requests sent to LILRC.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLETING
SERIAL REQUEST