Section R2-3-601. Eligibility

To be eligible for Library Services and Technology Act competitive grants, State Grants-in-Aid (including construction), and access to First Search, a library:

1.        Must participate, upon patron or library request, as a lender and/or borrower in the statewide interlibrary loan of circulating print materials, regardless of subject or genre, without charge to their patrons or to other Arizona libraries.

2.        Is encouraged, but not required, to share circulating, non- print materials.

3.        May limit interlibrary loan requests to six per patron at any one time.

4.        May limit requests to materials that have been published for at least a year; not currently on a nationally recog- nized best-seller list; or not needed by the library’s own patrons.

5.        With prior notice to the patrons, may pass on to their patrons real and actual charges incurred from out-of-state libraries in the filling of those patrons’ interlibrary loan requests, including postage.

Historical Note

New Section made by exempt rulemaking at 11 A.A.R.

3863; effective October 15, 2005 (Supp. 05-3).