LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE INTERLIBRARY LOAN SERVICE POLICY
Definition: The Lorain County Community College Library provides resources to meet the study, research, informational, and instructional needs of LCCC and University Partnership students, staff, administrators, and faculty. This is accomplished through use of the LCCC Library collection or through Interlibrary loans.
Interlibrary loans are transactions in which library materials are made available by one library to another. Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service supplements the library's resources. For the purpose of this policy, a transaction also includes the provision of copies as substitutes for the loan of original material(s).
Scope: Books or photocopies of articles from periodicals may be requested from or loaned to another library. The borrowing library requests an item and the lending library decides whether to provide that request.
Borrowing Policies:
- Reference Services Staff is familiar with LCCC and other libraries' ILL policies. The staff will not deviate from the use of standard ILL procedures.
- The library will comply with federal copyright law [Title 17, U.S. Code] and its accompanying guidelines, and will inform users of applicable portions of the law. Indication of compliance with the law will be included in all requests for copied materials.
- As the condition of the borrowed material(s) is the responsibility of the LCCC Library, the library will meet all costs of repair and replacement in accordance with the preferences of the lending library. These charges will be passed on to the patron who borrowed the material(s).
- The library will comply with conditions of loan established by the lending library. Unless specifically forbidden by the lending library, copying by borrowing library is permitted provided it is in accordance with copyright laws and that no damage to the original will result.
- Books borrowed from other libraries are loaned for the period specified by the lending library. Patrons may be granted a renewal upon approval of the lending library.
Lending Policies:
- Any decision to loan material(s) is made at the discretion of the LCCC Library.
- The ILL staff will process requests promptly, usually within 24 hours.
- Conditions of loans will be stated clearly and material(s) packaged carefully. The library will notify the borrowing library when unable to fill requests. Under the terms of this policy, the library will not loan the following:
- books which are checked out;
- books with overdue, missing, lost or in process status in the LCCC Catalog;
- periodicals; (The library does send photocopies of articles. Requests for photocopies must include a complete citation for the specified article.)
- reference materials;
- reserve materials;
- brittle or damaged books;
- microforms. (The library will make photocopies.)
5. Loan and renewal times are as follows:
- initial loan period for material(s) is six weeks;
- six renewals for faculty, staff and students;
- three renewals for community borrowers.
Expenses: The library assumes responsibility for all costs charged by the lending library.
LCCC Bass Library will follow the Interlibrary Loan Code for the United States which was prepared by the Interlibrary Loan Committee, Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), 1994, revised 2001. Revised by the Codes, Guidelines, and Technical Standards Committee, Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section (STARS) 2008, 2015, and 2023. Approved by RUSA Board June 13, 2023. https://www.ala.org/rusa/interlibrary-loan-code-united-states-explanatory-text
