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Libraries Online Inc., a Connecticut interlibrary consortium, is currently spending roughly $20,000 a month on e-books for its 38 members.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 11, 2024

If so, you usually can get the source through a networked system called interlibrary loans.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

I discovered that the librarians could, through the wonder of the interlibrary loan, get me books they did not have, and that they would.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2018

To do that, biologists often request specimens through a kind of interlibrary loan.

From Science Magazine • May 11, 2017

Lately she’s begun to work at the main desk, greeting the regular patrons by name as they walk through the doors, filling out forms for interlibrary loans.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri