Today was pretty busy but not quite as hectic as Monday. Slightly smaller TAE courier delivery, significantly fewer USPS deliveries. Made a lot of progress with Patron Requests, keeping on top of returns, lending, etc. #LibraryWork #interlibraryLoan
#InterLibraryLoan
Super busy day today at work; substantial TAE courier delivery, substantial USPS delivery in the afternoon. Busy all day receiving & processing and printing out book straps and stuffing books into blue interoffice envelopes. #Librarywork #interlibraryLoan
Some academics have really unrealistic expectations about library holdings and the ease of obtaining all the obscure shit they want. #InterlibraryLoan #LibraryLife
Catalog access was restored at 4pm and I did hustle to get as much done as possible between then and 5pm but it was a triage exercise and just doing what I could with the time available. I'm still basically facing a 2 day backlog tomorrow.... 📚 #LibraryLife #interlibraryLoan
Pretty busy day at work receiving, returning and lending via courier and USPS. #LibraryLife #InterlibraryLoan
#billc15 #interlibraryloan #libraries
Here’s how the federal budget could affect library books https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/heres-how-the-federal-budget-could-affect-library-books/
For those of you who haven't seen this......
Was reminded this morning that we don't have #TodSlaughter's most famous film, #SweeneyTodd. Thanks to #InterLibraryLoan from our local #Library, we soon will. ❤️
Finish adding Korea Open Access Journals titles to library holdings 😊 https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/landing/main.kci
...getting 1+ ILL requests per week on the titles. 😂
#openaccess #librarian #ILL #interlibraryloan #CJKresources #KoreanResearch
Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs – 404Media
Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs
By Emanuel Maiberg, Oct 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’
Photo by Raul Rosas / UnsplashThe Trump administration’s tariff regime and the elimination of fee exemptions for items under $800 is limiting resource sharing between university libraries, trapping some books in foreign countries, and reversing long-held standards in academic cooperation.
“There are libraries that have our books that we’ve lent to them before all of this happened, and now they can’t ship them back to us because their carrier either is flat out refusing to ship anything to the U.S., or they’re citing not being able to handle the tariff situation,” Jessica Bower Relevo, associate director of resource sharing and reserves at Yale University Library, told me.
After Trump’s executive order ended the de minimis exemption, which allowed people to buy things internationally without paying tariffs if the items cost less than $800, we’ve written several stories about how the decision caused chaos over a wide variety of hobbies that rely on people buying things overseas, especially on Ebay, where many of those transactions take place.
Libraries that share their materials internationally are in a similar mess, partly because some countries’ mail services stopped shipments to and from the U.S. entirely, but the situation for them is arguably even more complicated because they’re not selling anything—they’re just lending books.
“It’s not necessarily too expensive. It’s that they don’t have a mechanism in place to deal with the tariffs and how they’re going to be applied,” Relevo said. “And I think that’s true of U.S. shipping carriers as well. There’s a lot of confusion about how to handle this situation.”
“The tariffs have impacted interlibrary loans in various ways for different libraries,” Heather Evans, a librarian at RMIT University in Australia, told me in an email. “It has largely depended on their different procedures as to how much they have been affected. Some who use AusPost [Australia’s postal service] to post internationally have been more impacted and I’ve seen many libraries put a halt on borrowing to or from the US at all.” (AusPost suspended all shipments to the United States but plans to renew them on October 7).
Relevo told me that in some cases books are held up in customs indefinitely, or are “lost in warehouses” where they are held for no clear reason.
As Relevo explains it, libraries often provide people in foreign institutions books in their collections by giving them access to digitized materials, but some books are still only available in physical copies. These are not necessarily super rare or valuable books, but books that are only in print in certain countries. For example, a university library might have a specialized collection on a niche subject because it’s the focus area of a faculty member, a French university will obviously have a deeper collection of French literature, and some textbooks might only be published in some languages.
A librarian’s job is to give their community access to information, and international interlibrary loans extend that mission to other countries by having libraries work together. In the past, if an academic in the U.S. wanted access to a French university’s deep collection of French literature, they’d have to travel there. Today, academics can often ask that library to ship them the books they want. Relevo said this type of lending has always been useful, but became especially popular and important during COVID lockdowns, when many libraries were closed and international travel was limited.
“Interlibrary loans has been something that libraries have been able to do for a really long time, even back in the early 1900s,” Relevo said. “If we can’t do that anymore and we’re limiting what our users can access, because maybe they’re only limited to what we have in our collection, then ultimately could hinder academic progress. Scholars have enjoyed for decades now the ability to basically get whatever they need for their research, to be very comprehensive in their literature reviews or the references that they need, or past research that’s been done on that topic, because most libraries, especially academic libraries, do offer this service […] If we can’t do that anymore, or at least there’s a barrier to doing that internationally, then researchers have to go back to old ways of doing things.”
See Also: Another version of this story online in the blog.
Continue/Read Original Article: https://www.404media.co/libraries-cant-get-their-loaned-books-back-because-of-trumps-tariffs/
#2025 #404Media #America #Books #DonaldTrump #Education #Health #History #InterlibraryLoan #International #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #LoanedBooks #Opinion #Politics #Resistance #Science #Technology #Trump #TrumpAdministration #TrumpSTariffs #UnitedStates #UniversityLibraries
Or if there's a patron hold that was placed after the automated hold for ILL, it goes and fills that patron hold next, for example. #InterlibraryLoan #LibraryServices #intheweeds
Welp, it's Friday and I hope my tech wizard overlords come thru and fix my tools so I can do my job and get back to serving my patrons and other lending partners. Been too long. #InterlibraryLoan
FTX01 is successfully lending once more! YEAH! I processed 4 lending requests this AM by manually pulling requested items from the shelves here at the main library. I tested the automatic checkout function and interoperability between cloud POLARIS and ShareIt. Success rate was 3 of 4. The one item that did not automatically check out had a condition noted block that had to be bypassed manually (for yellowed pages). All items bagged & shipped out via TAE courier this morning already. We are back in the lending business! Whoohoo! #InterlibraryLoan #LibraryServices
Tonight's #movie, unriffed, was 1955's The Quatermass Xperiment, one we've been wanting to see for years. This was the #film that put #Hammer on the map. And it holds up pretty well. A little slow in spots, but pretty good in general. Good atmosphere, good suspense, good cinematography, and surprisingly good subtle humor. Thank you, #InterlibraryLoan! #Libraries are the best!
📚 Libraries as “Academic Traffic Facilities”: Interlibrary Loan Imaginations after 1945
After #WWII, German #libraries faced massive losses. This article explores how interlibrary loan became central to rebuilding the academic landscape — not just through logistics, but through a new vision of knowledge.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/735653
#LibraryHistory #InterlibraryLoan #ILL #ResourceSharing #KnowledgeInfrastructure #AcademicLibraries #PostwarHistory #UnionCatalogs #Germany #Collections #Holdings
Internet Archive Blogs: Access the Internet Archive collections with RapidILL. “Here’s a resource sharing tip for our community of librarians: RapidILL members have an option to include the Internet Archive as a potential supplier for their borrowing requests.”
Hi everyone, I've created a Signal chat group for anyone working in resource sharing in Australasia. My hope is that we can support each other in our rather niche corner of the library industry and engage in discussions, tips, tricks, news, and anything else.
Please share this with anyone you know who might be interested. Thank you!
Australasia Resource Sharing group https://signal.group/#CjQKIItu4duFXNgTNBOhIrnhDlDSZBxgIP7rv07v9cNOsXTMEhCTVKQ5Ilw-kHxEeHBR0W9Q
Just confirmed I can still do "direct requesting" in OCLC First Search, just like back in 2010. I hate having to plan for a deliberate downgrade in services but we have to press onward and make do with the tools we have at hand. #CantStopTheSignal #FightCensorship #interlibraryloan
So the one section still useful in this book is the discussion of the intersection of ILL and 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 Copyright law, including explication of the Rule of 5, which I'm happy to note my library hasn't ever come even close to violating. It's more a concern of Academic lenders situated as a nexus of scholarly communication. Book is otherwise of interest only to Library historians, especially the technology section. Published in 2011 one year after I started working at my current library, made me downright nostalgic 😆 Badly needs a 4th edition, even if only published as an ebook. #LibraryScience #interlibraryloan #LISprofessionalliterature
https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/05/us-postal-service-suspends-inbound-parcels-from-hong-kong-and-china-amid-tariff-war/
I wonder if that affects #interlibraryloan . Can we return or borrow #books with partner libraries in the US?
#libraries
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