The Delaware County Library system Reference and Information Services Division shall provide primary interlibrary loan service to member public libraries within Delaware County. Secondary service shall be provided to other libraries in accordance with the Minimum Standards for District Library Centers and the Pennsylvania Interlibrary Loan Code. The System fully endorses the Pennsylvania ILL Code, as do its member libraries.

All types of materials may be requested through ILL. However, the patron should be made aware it is not always possible to fulfill the request for such items as best sellers, reference, genealogy, rare titles, and special formats. Recently published books may be requested through ILL, but it is at the discretion of the lending library to lend it or not.

A patron is limited to a maximum of (4) interlibrary loan requests pending at one time (a transaction must be complete before another can be made). Member libraries will accept all Delaware County interlibrary loan requests regardless of a patron's member library affiliation.

As of October 7, 1993, the Delaware County Library System will accept requests for paperback books that are still in print at the discretion of the Head, Reference and Information Services Division.

Borrowing Materials Not Held in a DCLS Member Library
The system Administrative Headquarters will provide two levels of ILL service to member libraries. They are:

Basic Service
There will be no fee for requests submitted to 15 non charging libraries.

Enhanced Service
This service provides access to a larger pool of libraries, many of which charge fees for interlibrary loan. A $10.00 processing fee will be assessed to cover additional searching costs and loaning library fees. It will be payable at the time of the request. If the materials cannot be provided, one half of the fee will be returned to the patron.

Member libraries may elect to offer one or both of these levels of service.

Renewals

In general, requests for renewals for titles obtained outside the DCLS system will not be accepted. Under extraordinary circumstances, renewals may requested through the Head of Reference and Information Services Division. Renewals will only be considered for materials that are not overdue and may be refused by the lending library.