Basics: Interlibrary Loan (ILL)

• Lending materials owned by a library to those outside of the library community (usually through other libraries)

• Borrowing materials owned by other libraries for members of a library’s own community

• Includes sharing of physical media to be returned (e.g. books) and not returned (e.g. photocopied chapters or articles)

• Often called ILL/DD (for Document Delivery)

• DD can be a for-fee (and for-profit) service to non-members of a library’s community