Interlibrary Loan

Library card holders in good standing may request up to three Interlibrary Loans at a time. Requests may be placed online, by phone, or in person at any of our Library locations. Please see Worldcat (a catalog of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide) for help verifying book information.

Borrowers may pick up Interlibrary Loan materials at any of our Library locations or via our bookmobile. We are unable to deliver ILL material to schools.

Typically it takes 10 days to 2 weeks to receive materials from other libraries.

The length of the loan is set by the lending library and will vary accordingly. The due date is noted on each item. Some lending libraries consider renewal requests, and some do not. This will be noted on the item.

Books, magazine/journal articles, and microfilm CAN be borrowed through interlibrary loan

Some types of materials areNOT loaned between libraries. We do not request AV materials (CDs or DVDs), e-books, books classified as reference use only, or issues of magazines or newspapers. Loans may be restricted on rare books based on local demand, value, or irreplaceability.

We obtain materials at no cost if possible, but some are unavailable without a fee. When libraries charge fees to lend to borrowers of others libraries, we pass the fees to our users. We are unable to say what the fee may be when we take a request, so we ask for a maximum cost the requestor is willing to pay.

• Out-of-state libraries: $10 fee per item loaned, $2 per page for photocopies of magazines, journals, and newspaper articles

• In-state libraries: no charge per item loaned, no charge for photocopies of magazines, journals, and newspaper articles

Interlibrary Loan books that are returned late may accrue fines at a rate determined by the loaning library. The Indianapolis Public Library Fine Free policy does not apply to materials owned by another library. A replacement fee for lost items will be charged to the borrower’s account with the cost determined by the loaning library. Additionally, any borrower who does not return Interlibrary Loan materials may have their Interlibrary Loan privileges suspended.”