Welcome to the Library and Archives Canada Interlibrary Loan Services!

Library and Archives Canada receives approximately 550 interlibrary loan requests a day from libraries across Canada and around the world seeking to borrow either from Library and Archives Canada's extensive collections or to find a library which holds the item they wish to borrow. In response to these requests, libraries receive either a loan of the requested item from Library and Archives Canada's collections, a photocopy (of a periodical article for example), or a list of libraries where the item is held.

Library and Archives Canada does not charge for photocopies, loans, locations or any other interlibrary loan service with the exception of a charge or replacement for lost items.

Contents

1. Interlibrary Loan Policy

1.1 Clientele
1.2 International Services
1.3 Charges
1.4 Loan Period

2. What is available for interlibrary loan?

2.1 What is not available for interlibrary loan?
2.2 Other sources for ILLs
2.3 Photocopies in lieu of interlibrary loans

3. Sending interlibrary loan requests to Library and Archives Canada

3.1 Means of transmission
3.2 Preparing a request
3.2.1 Bibliographic information
3.2.2 Library symbols
3.2.3 Loan or locations?
3.2.4 Control numbers
3.2.5 Edition
3.2.6 Source of reference
3.2.7 Source of verification
3.2.8 Special delivery instructions
3.2.9 Levels of service
3.2.10 ILL request information for monographs
3.2.11 ILL request information for serials
3.2.12 Following up a previous request
3.2.13 Replies from Library and Archives Canada

4. Document Delivery

4.1 Purolator, Canada Post, etc.
4.2 Mail
4.3 Library rate
4.4 Fax
4.5 ARIEL
4.6 Courier services
4.7 LDS
4.8 IUTS
4.9 PEBUQUILL
4.10 SOLS

5. Returning borrowed items to Library and Archives Canada

A free printed version of this guide Interlibrary Loan Services can be ordered from:

Marketing and Publishing
Library and Archives Canada
395 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON   K1A 0N4
CANADA