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Interlibrary Loan
An interlibrary loan is how we connect you with materials from libraries outside of Saskatchewan. If we determine that your request doesn't meet our Collection Policy, we will attempt to borrow the material from another Canadian library.
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Turnaround times and loan periods vary depending on the lending library. Please submit your request with accurate information and as much detail as possible as that will speed up the process. You will be notified when your requested item is available for pick-up.
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- Picking up interlibrary loans:
- You can pick up and return interlibrary loan items at any RPL location.
- Renewing interlibrary loans:
- Renewals are up to the lending library. Please contact library staff if you wish to renew your interlibrary loan. Renewals must be requested at least two days before the item is due back.
- Returning interlibrary loans:
- You can return your item to any Saskatchewan public library. Your library account will be billed for the replacement cost of the unreturned item. If you return the item in good condition the replacement cost will be removed from your account.
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Interlibrary loan is primarily used for books, magazine articles, and back issues of newspapers on microfilm. The following things are not available through interlibrary loan:
- Items available or on-order in our catalogue, including musical instruments
- Books published in the current or previous calendar year
- DVDs, videos, audiobooks, CDs, and other audio-visual and multimedia items
- Whole issues of magazines
- Items that are not available in Canadian libraries
You can submit up to 10 purchase and/or interlibrary loan requests per month.
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We’ll make every attempt to fulfill your requests, but we can’t guarantee that each attempt will be successful. If a title has already been submitted and gone through the request process once, and has been deemed unsuitable for our collection, or isn’t available through interlibrary loan, it won’t be considered again — even if it’s been submitted several times.
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Magazine articles
- You can request photocopies of magazine articles through interlibrary loan. Please search for the title of the magazine or journal in our E-Journal Portal before submitting your request — we might already have digital access to the article you’re looking for.
- If you still can't find what you are looking for, feel free to submit a request. Keep in mind that our article-sharing partners are Canadian academic and special libraries, so they’ll have access to academic journals, not popular magazines.
- Digital copies are provided in PDF format, free of charge. Print copies will be subject to our usual charges for printing.
Microfilm:
- You can select Microform as the format of the item and then fill an as much information as you can.
- Please note that microfilms will only be sent to RPL’s Central Library, where our microfilm readers and printers are kept.
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