Lend and borrow with Te Puna Interloan

New Zealand and international interloans

You can borrow from other New Zealand and international library collections or share from your own using WorldShare Interlibrary Loan (WorldShare ILL). Worldshare ILL automates your interlibrary borrowing and lending processes though the largest resource-sharing network in the world to save your staff time and to ensure timely delivery of items to the people who need them.

The premium version of WorldShare ILL, Tipasa, is also available to Te Puna members at an additional cost. Get in touch if you are interested in Tipasa

Guides for New Zealand and international interloans

Use our guides to help you find, borrow and lend items using WorldShare ILL.

• Discover items — a step by step guide to finding items to request (PDF, 1.30MB)
• Borrower actions — a step by step guide to actions carried out by a borrowing library (PDF, 1.5MB)
• Lender actions — a step by step guide to actions carried out by a lending library (PDF, 880KB)

Australian interloans

Virtual Document eXchange (VDX) is used for lending between New Zealand and Australian libraries.

Guides for Australian interloans

Use our guides to help you interloan with Australian libraries.

Borrow from an Australian library

• Search for an item and place a request (pdf, 595KB)
• Request a loan, (pdf, 475KB)
• Request a copy (pdf, 585KB)

Lend to an Australian library

• Log in and check requests (pdf, 375KB)
• Responding to a loan request (pdf, 330KB)
• Responding to a copy request (pdf, 380KB)

Reciprocal lending

Some libraries choose not to charge one another for interloans. In other words, they have a reciprocal lending arrangement. As a Te Puna member library, you are free to set up your own reciprocal arrangements and/or you can join the National Reciprocal Group.

The National Reciprocal Group

The National Reciprocal Group is a cross-sector collective of Te Puna member libraries who agree not to charge each other for interloans. This is coordinated by Te Puna Services. Each quarter, we invite libraries to opt-in or out of the group. This is announced via the Te Puna Interloan Updates mailing list.

Current list of National Reciprocal Group members

Setting up reciprocal lending in WorldShare ILL

It’s a good idea to group reciprocal libraries together in WorldShare ILL. This enables you to:

• limit search results to items held by reciprocal libraries
• prioritise reciprocal libraries first when requesting interloans.

To create groups in this way, see our guides to setting up Service Configuration, in particular:

• Preparing your custom holdings groups (DOC, 430KB)
• Setting up custom holdings groups (pdf, 570KB)
• Setting up custom holdings paths (pdf, 430KB)

Set up service configuration — all the guides to setting up service configuration in WorldShare ILL.

List of National Reciprocal Group Libraries

Find a New Zealand library or location of an item

Can’t find a New Zealand Library or don't know if an item exists or where it is located? Try our location service or the Directory of New Zealand Libraries. Any other questions please get in touch.

Directory of New Zealand Libraries

The Directory of New Zealand Libraries provides interloan contacts and other information about every library in New Zealand. Te Puna members can send in an online request to update their library details.

The Directory of New Zealand Libraries

Verify the existence or location of items

Use or free location service if you need to verify the existence or location of books, articles, printed music, serials, or any other items that you are unable to find.

Email the location service at dss@dia.govt.nz.

Interloan statistics for your library

Get insight into your library’s borrowing and lending patterns using WorldShare ILL reports.

WorldShare ILL Reports guide for a range of available reports and how to generate them.

WorldShare ILL Reports guide (pdf, 595KB)

Need help?

For further help with interloans and other Te Puna services email us tepuna@dia.govt.nz

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OCLC support

Help resources are also available for WorldShare on the OCLC support pages.
OCLC support

Related content

Set up WorldShare Interlibrary loan

New to WorldShare Interlibrary Loan (WorldShare ILL) or need a refresher? Use our guides to get set-up or to check if you have the recommended settings in place.

Interloan billing

Te Puna members can use our integrated billing services to process payments for interloans between New Zealand and international libraries.