Illinois Library Delivery Service

We are pleased to announce that we will be adding 3 new locations to ILDS this summer. Morton College (MRT), and Kennedy-King College (KKC) will begin service on July 1. Richard J. Daley (RJD) will begin service on August 1. A revised paper label that includes the 3-letter ILDS code for the new locations is available. Please join us in welcoming these new locations to ILDS!

For those sites that provide access to the ILDS Paper Label on their websites, you may want to consider linking directly to the paper label on the ILDS site: http://www.illinoisdelivers.net/PaperILDSlabel.pdf. This is a persistent link that will always direct participants to the current version of the label.

The CARLI delivery staff and the Preservation Working Group have developed a best practice for the packaging of fragile or expensive materials that travel in ILDS.

Although ILDS delivery bags (both purple and canvas) offer a measure of protection, libraries should not depend upon the bag alone to safeguard items such as audio or video tapes, CD's, DVD's, Blu-ray disks or other fragile and/or high-value items. Materials being transported in ILDS (or any physical delivery service) are handled several times by library and courier staff members and travel in several vehicles both coming and going. While the courier stresses the need to handle library materials appropriately, individual drivers and sorters have no idea what is in any specific bag. Consider the likelihood of damage if you place a single DVD in a thin plastic jewel case in an ILDS bag, just as you would when mailing similar items through the Postal Service or UPS without adequate protection.