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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:
- 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.
- 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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