Postal Services and Interlibrary Loan: 

Due to the upcoming holiday period, staffing and anticipated backlogs in the postal service, interlibrary loan requesting will resume in the New Year on January 6. Please contact us for more information.

 

If we don't have it, we will try and get it for you.

If West Perth Public Library or any other library in Perth County doesn't own what you want, WPPL staff will try to borrow it from another library through Interlibrary Loan (ILLO).

All library materials requested on interlibrary loan are subject to the availability and interlibrary loan policies of the lending libraries.  Borrowers require a valid WPPL library card to make an interlibrary loan request.

About ILLO

  • Check the library catalogue first. If we do not have the item you would like, submit an Interlibrary Loan request or ask staff to assist you in processing your request
  • Books, audiobooks and articles may be requested
  • Physical material will only be requested from Canadian libraries
  • WPPL cardholders may request up to 2 Interlibrary Loans each week and must do so at WPPL (their home library)
  • WPPL's interlibrary loan system is only available to WPPL cardholders whose home library is WPPL
  • Perth County residents who do not hold a WPPL card are asked to request ILLO service from their local library system within the Perth County Information Network (PCIN). Those living outside of Perth County are asked to request ILLO service from their local library system
  • Interlibrary loans can take from 1-6 weeks to arrive.
  • We will contact you once your item(s) have arrived or if your request cannot be filled. Interlibrary loans must be picked up within 7 days of arrival
  • Requests for renewals must be made at least 5 days before the due date and are granted subject to the approval of the lending library
  • Items returned late are subject to a fine of $1 per day late

The following items are not available for ILLO

  • DVDs, VHS, music CDs, entire issues of periodicals and items published in the last 24 months may not be requested
  • Microfilm from the Ontario Archives. Please contact the Stratford-Perth Archives to order.

Borrowers require a valid WPPL library card and must live in Perth County to make an interlibrary loan request. Members who have a card at another PCIN library are asked to request ILLO service at their home library. Any ILLO requests made at WPPL must be picked up and dropped of at WPPL

>Simply fill out our InterLibrary Loan request form and we will do our best to get the item in for you.

 

Questions?

For more information, please contact the library at 519-348-9234 or send a message to askwppl@westperthpl.ca