Inter-Library Loan
My Cargo – Items ready to travel back to their Home Libraries for the Holidays
I want to share a great service that the Dover Public Library has to offer. If you wish to check out some something that we do not have in our collection, we CAN get it for you. It’s called an Inter – Library Loan or ILL. You just need to fill out a form, or we can do it for you. You need the author, title of the item you are requesting, your name, phone number, and library card number. We then take the paper and place the order or the HOLD from a library consortium of about two hundred different libraries from all over Ohio. Once the library gets the item, we call you. You can request DVD’s, too. You can keep a DVD for a week, a book for three weeks. There is a 50 cent a day fine and no renewals as we need to get the item back to its home in a timely manner.
You can use our website to request items, too. If you look at the menu bar at the top of our website, you can see the ADULTS menu. Hover your mouse over ADULTS, and a drop-down box will appear. Look down to ORDER MATERIALS FROM OTHER LIBRARIES and click. This page has a little more info about ILLs and a form you can fill out. This form is used if you want to request something that we at the Dover library do not have. It is just like the form we all use inside the library to request an item. Once submitted, the form is sent automatically to me, Denise, at johnsode@doverlibrary.org.
We can also do an ILL for teachers, book clubs, and anyone who might need more that one copy of a book with the same title. Just let us know what you need and we’ll do everything we can to get it for you!
If you need anything, we here at the Dover Library are here to help.
Thanks for reading,
Denise
Adult Services
Me & an ILL Form