[ILL-L] Charging Fees to Patrons for ILLS

[Linda Beins]

Because of possible severe cuts in funding, my director has approached me
with a proposal to begin charging for ILLs. We are a public library system
that borrows items on behalf of patrons of 33 very small to medium-sized
public libraries. I would appreciate hearing from other public library
systems and consortia as well as public libraries that are charging fees or
have charged fees in the past. How much do/did you charge and for what? How
did the fees affect the service and your volume of ILLs? How do/did you
manage the accounting? What other issues should I anticipate?

 

Thanks,

Linda B.

 

Linda G. Beins

ILL/Reference Coordinator

Finger Lakes Library System

119 E. Green St.

Ithaca, NY 14850

607 273-4074 ext. 32

lbeins at flls.org

 

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