The approved ILL Procedures will be written at the May meeting, the following are directions on making requests.

Borrowing:

To locate a book, first try the SLS Union Catalog:

When the page opens, click the Orleans/Niagara SLS Union Catalog icon to do your searching.

There is an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) form in the software. To get to it, click on "Details" and then again on "Request ILL". The username and password is your school code, in lower case. When filling out the ILL form, be sure to type in your name and school in the "Submitter Name", adjust the "Need by Date" and write any comments you might have in the "Comments" section.

If not available, you still have two options:

The other Western New York School Library Systems:  If you can not locate what you want in the Orleans/Niagara SLS Union Catalog, then click the grey preferences button on the search page to expand your search to school libraries in other BOCES.

Please note Videos and DVD's listed in the SLS catalogs are not loanable.

Finally, if the item is not in the Union Catalog, then send a request to Cheryl Hare via the telephone, email, fax or courier mail.  If it is not available Cheryl will notify you.

1-800-836-7510 ext. 3751
Fax 731-4134
Email CHare @ onboces.org 
 

Periodical requests Please send the request to the SLS.

Subject requests or multiple copy requests (10 or more books) can be put on the listserv.  It is the email address onel@wnylrc.org .

Lending:  

If you get a request that was sent specifically to you, and you can not fill it, please reply to the sender and inform them that you can not fill it.  

If you can fill the request, please put it in a red bag, available from the SLS office, or a courier envelope or anything else that will provide a safe passage for the items you are loaning, and mark the outside of the envelope/package with the requesting librarian's or library clerical person's name and school.  Place the item in the outgoing BOCES courier box in your school office.  Only send the item to the SLS office if the request is from a nonpublic or school library not in this BOCES.  

Statistics:

School library staff is requested to keep statistics on any item that they borrowed or lent to another school, in this BOCES, in which the MandarinM3 ILL form was not used.  Around June 10th every year, the SLS sends out a count of what we have for individual school libraries borrowing and lending for that school year, and ask the library staff to adjust the figures for our statistics.

Molly will be happy to visit any library to demonstrate the SLS MandarinM3 Union Catalog.  Just call her at 1-800-836-7510 ext. 3750 or molly @ onboces.org.

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