Circulation Policies

Region 8 Library Pages

Technical Library

Circulation of library materials is limited to EPA Region 8 Staff, or libraries that participate with Interlibrary Loans. An Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is one library loaning material to another library.

Interlibrary Loans

The Region 8 Library loans many of its materials to other Libraries.

The Region 8 Library accepts electronic Interlibrary Loan (ILL) requests from other libraries through OCLC (an international cataloging and lending service for libraries) or a mailed/faxed ALA (American Library Association) form.
Technical reports, books, microfiche, and videotapes loan for four weeks. Items are renewable for an additional 2-4 weeks, if there are no other requests for the items when the request to renew is placed. The library does not loan an entire issue of a journal but will photocopy up to 30 pages of individual articles.
Items are loaned to all geographic areas, including outside of the U.S.

The Region 8 Library will borrow materials from other libraries for Region 8 EPA staff.

Interlibrary loan (ILL) is a means of providing EPA patrons with access to information not owned by the Region 8 Library. In turn, the Region 8 Library makes its resources available to other Libraries with reciprocal borrowing agreements. Certain items, e.g. reference materials, can not be borrowed.
EPA staff can request that items be borrowed from another library by sending an E-mail or calling the library staff, or by completing an ILL request form.

Circulation

The following circulation periods apply to Region 8 EPA staff:

Technical reports, microfiche, audio/video tapes, books, and journals (not the most recent edition)are loaned for two weeks.
Books from the "new book shelf" can be loaned for one week.
(A new book is defined as a book which has been in the library for less than 3 months.)
Newspapers and journals (most recent issue) are loaned overnight or over the weekend.
Reference books can be checked out overnight or over the weekend.

Renewal

Items which have a waiting list may not be renewed. Renewal policies for all other items are:

Library technical reports, microfiche, audio/video tapes, books, and journals (except for current issues) are renewable for 2 weeks, up to two times.
Books from the new book shelf are renewable for 1 week, one time only. (A new book is defined as a book which has been in the library for less than 3 months)
Reference books, newspapers, and current issues of journals are not renewable.

Region 8 Library Pages

Technical Library