Other ILL Services

Referrals Beyond the Madison Campus

If an item is not available on the UW-Madison campus, you can have WiLS refer the request to another library.

If you want the request referred, please put “Refer” in the borrowing notes. For loans, we will only go to Wisconsin and MINITEX locations. For copies, we will refer anywhere in the world, but out-of-country items must be accessible via OCLC.

Referrals will be sent to you via the same method you receive items from WiLS, i.e., red box, Odyssey, mail, UPS, Ariel, or Edoc. Libraries in Wisconsin will ship the item directly to your library. Materials received from out of state libraries (including Minitex) are shipped to WiLS which will then send them to you via your preferred method.

The cost of a referral is a flat $17.00 for each request regardless of how many times we refer it. You are charged that fee whether we are able to fill it or not, and we will pay charges up to $30. We will try as many libraries as possible until the deadline date or we run out of potential lenders.

If you have any questions regarding the Referral Service, please contact Bob Shaw (reshaw at wils.wisc.edu) at 608.263.4981.

Access (Newsletter)

Access is the monthly interlibrary loan newsletter produced by WiLS staff.
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WiLS ILL Annual Meeting

WiLS sponsors an ILL meeting every fall at the Pyle Center in Madison. Program suggestions are always welcome and should be addressed to Bob Shaw at reshaw@wils.wisc.edu.

See past meetings: 2011 Meeting | 2010 Meeting

ILL User Statistics:

Monthly ILL  user activity statistics grouped by type of library:  ILL statistics

Reference Service

Submit a Reference Request Form by Web, e-mail, phone, FAX or mail. Reference is an enhanced (free) service for level-1 members, all non-level ones pay or deduct $18.00 from their WiLS deposit account. Reference Service

Site Visits

A site visit, which typically takes a half-day, by WiLS staff is part of the full membership package. If you are interested in having a site visit at your institution, please contact Bob Shaw at reshaw@wils.wisc.edu.

Topics that are covered include:
Policy Directory
Admin Module
Custom Holdings
Lending Patterns
Constant Data
OCLC Statistics
IFM
OCLC Worldcat Resource Sharing: the Basics
Worldcat Resource Sharing – Quick Reference
OCLC ILL Policies Directory – Quick Reference
OCLC’s ILL web page (Resource Sharing)
OCLC Registry
WiLS Home page (Resource Sharing)
- Kathy Schneider’s WiLS statistics
- Referrals
- WiLS ILL Service Fees
- Access
- Annual Meeting
Minitex Agreement
Minitex Libraries
Copyright Clearance Center
LVIS Libraries
Member Directory – handout
Listservs – ILL-L
ISO codes
Wisconsin Interlibrary Loan Guidelines
Interlibrary Loan Best Practices
Odyssey Standalone
E-DOC
SCLS Delivery
Google Books