Colorado Library – Courier Services
Use our Courier Code Lookup Page to search for codes and libraries, schools or academic institutions on the Colorado courier system.
Use our Routing Slip Creator to create and print courier slips.
If you’d like to report a service issue, please visit our “Contact Library Courier” page and select the relevant form.
Libraries are strongly advised to read and understand Colorado ILL Best Practices and the Interlibrary Loan Code for the United States, both of which provide the basis for library resource sharing in Colorado.
User Guides
Click Here to access a directory of guides. You’ll find…
- Courier Best Practices & Procedures
- Delivery Information
- Selected Courier Policies
- Courier Log Sheets templates
- and more
Courier Holidays
Courier services are not available on the following days:
- Thanksgiving
- Christmas
- New Year’s Day
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Memorial Day
- Independence Day (Observed)
- Labor Day
Costs
With courier costs, each library situation is unique and is dependent on local interlibrary loan practices. Operating costs are calculated annually on behalf of all participating libraries, and are a direct result of the previous year’s resource-sharing activity (July through June).
CLiC has two goals:
- Continue to encourage resource sharing throughout Colorado and to maintain affordable pricing for libraries that voluntarily request to participate in the Courier service.
- Ensure sustainability of the statewide Courier service by maintaining predictability in libraries’ costs while still allowing CLiC to “pay the bills” associated with operation of this statewide service, which has handled more than 2.6 million physical items EACH of the past two years [2018 & 2019].
Base Courier Rates (October 2022 – September 2023)
| # of stops per week | Base Rate | |
| Community Stop | $128 / year | No more than 120 ILLs per year. Deliveries are made to a nearby host library, and a staff member from the community stop library is responsible for picking up/dropping off items at that host location. |
| 3 | $927 / year | |
| 4 | $1853/ year | |
| 5 | $2896 / year |
High Volume ILL Fee Chart (October 2022 – September 2023)
| Number of Items | Fee | Number of Items | Fee | ||
| 1 – 2,999 | $0 | 14,000 – 14,999 | $4716 | ||
| 3,000 – 3,999 | $431 | 15,000 – 15,999 | $5134 | ||
| 4,000 – 4,999 | $863 | 16,000 – 16,999 | $5541 | ||
| 5,000 – 5,999 | $1210 | 17,000 – 17,999 | $5825 | ||
| 6,000 – 6,999 | $1625 | 18,000 – 18,999 | $6232 | ||
| 7,000 – 7,999 | $2056 | 19,000 – 19,999 | $6633 | ||
| 8,000 – 8,999 | $2394 | 20,000 – 20,999 | $6954 | ||
| 9,000 – 9,999 | $2818 | 21,000 – 21,999 | $7354 | ||
| 10,000 – 10,999 | $3226 | 22,000 – 22,999 | $7755 | ||
| 11,000 – 11,999 | $3555 | 23,000 – 23,999 | $8077 | ||
| 12,000 – 12,999 | $3972 | 24,000 – 24,999 | $8477 | ||
| 13,000 – 13,999 | $4388 | Above 25,000 | $.37 per item | ||
