Upcoming Changes FAQ

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Beginning July 1, 2013 the University of WI-Madison will be taking over lending.

What lending symbol should we send requests to after July 1, 2013? Will UW-Madison be the central ILL lending operations to other libraries for all of the various smaller libraries on campus?

All requests for materials housed within the UW-Madison collections, including the State Historical Society, can still be sent to the OCLC Symbol GZM. We will fill materials from within all of the campus collections that allow the lending and copying of materials for interlibrary loan.

How will this affect shipping via Redbox (especially returns) – who will we ship back to?

You can continue to ship materials back to the UW-Madison campus via the red box to the GZM symbol.

Will there be restrictions on public library interlibrary loan when UW and WiLS split?

We are in the process of drafting a contract with DPI for borrowing and lending between our collections. At this time we plan to honor our current contracts.

In your policies, (OCLC) UW-Madison charges $20/loan.  Is this true for all libraries?  If so, what are your payment options?

Our ILL per item fee will remain $20/IFM. GZM accepts payment via OCLC IFM, invoice, or credit cards. We prefer payment via IFM. If you are not an IFM using library, we will send invoices regularly.

Wisconsin libraries interested in establishing reciprocal lending relationships with us for reduced rates (currently $7.95 per item) should contact Joy Pohlman at jpohlman@library.wisc.edu.

What will your new lending policies be?

The majority of our current policies will remain:

  • Have up to five volumes per request
  • Have up to six reels of microfilm of the same title per request
  • Have up to ten microfiche per request
  • Receive master theses as scanned PDFs

We will not be able to offer our Rush or Digitization on Demand services. We hope to reevaluate these in the coming years.

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