South Central Regional Library Council promotes regional resource sharing by helping to defray the cost of the delivery of interlibrary loan materials among South Central member libraries and library systems in accordance with the following guidelines:

1. Libraries will receive a resource sharing subsidy based on their annual regional borrowing and lending interlibrary loan volume. The Board of Trustees establishes the rate each year. SCRLC will award subsidies to libraries only if funding is available.

 

2. All libraries that receive a resource-sharing subsidy must provide on an annual basis accurate and timely data regarding the number of borrowing and lending transactions-- including unfilled requests--on a timely basis. These interlibrary loan statistics are due at the South Central office by July 15 of each year.

 

3. SCRLC bases awards for resource sharing subsidies on member interlibrary loan statistics of the previous fiscal year - July through June.

 

4. Public library systems and school library systems are eligible for subsidies for delivery between the system headquarters and other South Central member libraries or library systems. It is expected that adequate delivery systems to each system's member libraries will be supported by the system headquarters.

 

5. SCRLC expects that libraries accepting a subsidy will use timely delivery services, including but not limited to United Parcel Service or CampusShip, first class postal service, ARIEL, LAND, IDS and telefacsimile for the delivery of library materials in the region. SCRLC considers "library rate" as untimely and therefore not acceptable; however, libraries may elect to use 4th class/library rate for the return of library materials. Libraries that elect to return interlibrary loan materials via library rate do so with the understanding that they are responsible for any material lost in shipment.

 

6. The South Central Regional Library Council reserves the right to revise this policy as needed.

 
 
 
          Approved by the SCRLC Board of Trustees May 11, 1989
          Amended September 23, 1994
          Amended September 25, 2009