• When your ILL is ready for pick-up, it will be behind the counter and not with your regular holds. A staff member will need to check it out for you.
• It takes 2 to 6 weeks for your item to arrive. Items may be traveling across the country for you! We will notify you when it arrives.
• The owning library sets the due date. While they normally give you about 3 weeks, checkout periods vary.
• You cannot renew an ILL.
• Your ILL will have a blue tag on the front it with a barcode and the due date. Please don’t remove it because that’s how we track it.
• There may be a nominal fee. Don’t worry. We will try all free sources first and if the only option for borrowing is fee based, we will let you know before we borrow the item for you.
• Overdue fines and charges for lost or damaged materials still apply. However, because the item does not belong to us, at 60 days overdue, we will pay the owning library for the item and will be unable to issue a refund.

If you are comfortable searching for items on your own, you can use WorldCat to search for items and place your request. WorldCat, short for World Catalog, works similarly to Olathe Public Library’s catalog, except that its catalog scope is global.

If you’d prefer us to do the searching, tell us what you are looking for by submitting a Book/Media Request Form.