How much does it cost to use ILL?
The George A. Smathers Libraries offers the Interlibrary Loan service at no charge in order to extend the scope of research materials available to our patrons. However, the average cost to the UF Libraries to obtain these materials ranges from a low of $16 to a high of $128. This includes the cost of providing the service, request fees charged to us by other libraries, and copyright royalty fees or shipping costs. If any of these individual fees exceeds $50, we will ask the patron to subsidize the difference or cancel the request. On average, the Libraries spend over $81,000 per year in fees and approximately $100,000 in personnel and other overhead costs to provide this service.
