Western Massachusetts Regional Library System - Libraries - Cooperating - Communicating - Sharing
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Interlibrary Loan:

The Western Massachusetts Regional Library System (WMRLS) provides direct and mediated Interlibrary Loan (ILL) services through its ILL Department at Regional Headquarters in Hatfield.

The service is available to all member libraries regardless of size, and provides access to Regional materials collections and to the automated resources in which the Regional Library is a participant (C/W MARS, the Massachusetts Virtual Catalog, and OCLC).

Regional collections include:

  1. Headquarters Collection: This collection is developed to fill ILL requests when the items needed are unavailable from usual suppliers. The kinds of high demand materials purchased for this collection include price guides, travel guides, health trends, interests that are transitory or marginal, and materials that often disappear from the shelves of member libraries. The Professional Collection, a subset of the HQ Collection, consists of materials to support librarians in the management, selection, and organization of their collections, services, resources and personnel.
  2. Supplemental Collections: This collection was developed to supplement public library collections in communities of less than 25,000 population. It also functions as (but is not developed for) an Interlibrary Loan resource. Collection strengths include: large print, fiction, unabridged audiobooks and videocassettes.

Interlibrary Loan Online Forms

Requests for books, non-print materials, materials on a specific subject, and periodical articles may all be submitted to WMRLS ILL by Fax, WMRLS ILL (Title, Subject, or Periodical) Request Form, or by e-mail.  Requests to be forwarded beyond Regional Collections must be submitted on either the WMRLS ILL Form (paper or electronic versions) or an ALA ILL Request Form.

Instructions for completing the ILL request forms or other ILL processes are available.  

For additional information on ILL contact:

Jan Resnick, Assistant Regional Administrator
Regional Headquarters
Phone: (413) 247-9306, ext. 115
FAX: (413) 247-9740
jresnick@wmrls.org

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