Interlibrary Lending Policies
1. Requests
- The Knox College Library lends to any requesting institution submitting its request on appropriate interlibrary loan forms or through the OCLC-ILL subsystem.
- Knox College does not charge a fee for lending.
2. Non-Circulating Items
- Items in these collections cannot be loaned: Course Reserves, Current Interest Collection, Electronic Books, Honors Collection, Limited Editions, LP records, Maps, Books acquired in the last 4 months, Whole Periodicals, Reference, Special Collections, Online/Streaming Video, recent Computer Science books.
- We do not fill copy requests for special collection items. To request copies from Special Collections and Archives, please contact them directly at specialcollections@knox.edu.
4. Loan Periods
- Books/microfilm are loaned for 30 days and can be renewed. Book/microfilm maximum loan period is 90 days. DVDs/music CDs are loaned for 21 days and can be renewed. DVD/CD maximum loan period is 42 days. We send invoices for replacement costs at 8 weeks overdue.
- Will lend overseas: Fee charged to cover Express Mail costs. Books/microfilm are loaned for 30 days and can be renewed. Book/microfilm maximum loan period is 90 days. We do not lend DVDs outside of the US. We send invoices for replacement costs at 8 weeks overdue.
- PDFs of book chapters and journal articles are sent electronically.
5. Overdue & Damaged Material
- Overdue notices are sent on items that are not returned by the due date. Borrowing libraries may be billed for replacement cost of material that is extremely overdue.
- Borrowing libraries may be billed for replacement cost of material that is damaged.
