Inter Library Loan
An Inter Library Loan is a transaction in which materials or photocopies of materials are made available by one library to another upon request. This service is a means of greatly expanding the range of library materials available to Library patrons without allocating large sums of limited book funds for seldom requested items.
A. POLICY
The Oconee County Library System will borrow books and other library Materials through Interlibrary Loan(ILL) for registered borrowers subject to the following:
- Any fees over normal postage costs will be passed on the borrower including census records rental and any extra charges of lending institutions.
- All lost, damaged, or overdue material cost will be the responsibility of the borrower.
- Overdue ILL materials will be charged 50 cents per items per day, plus any late charges levied by the lending institution.
- The number of requisition will be limited to 3 titles per patron at a time and these must be returned before more will be ordered. The patron may not have more than 3 ILL items checked out at one time.
- Patrons must be in good standing with the library system and owe "NO" fines.
- No books published or copyrighted in the past 12 month will be ordered.
- No current best sellers will be ordered.
- OCPL collections(including DISCUS, the Internet, etc.) must be thoroughly searched before items are ordered through ILL.
- The fist search will be the State Library. After that, no more than 5 other sources ill be searched, and those should be from those institutions in nearest proximity to OCPL.
- In general, OCPL will lend only non-reference books on which there is not a request or reserve. Current best sellers will not be loaned through ILL.
- Videos that have been purchased with DHEC funds may be loaned for 28 days.
- OCPL will also issue a "videotape borrowing card" to any childcare center director who requests such a card., This card will only be used to check out teacher-training videos borrowed from the State Library. Where the day car director or one of his/her staff wishes to borrow these videos, they must use this card. Payment for lost videos will be the responsibility of the childcare center.
- ILL services will be available only to adult library card holders.
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