LTLS Services

School Delivery

LTLS will begin normal delivery to all schools on Monday, August 25. Please email delivery@lincolntrail.info if your school delivery should be delayed past that date or if your school will be open before that date.

Group Purchase of Wilson Select Database

On July 16, 2008 the Illinois State Library discontinued Wilson Select Plus and Periodical Abstracts for the people of Illinois as a result of the Governor’s specific line item budget cut in the Secretary of State and State Librarian’s budget.  Illinois Library Systems have been gathering information regarding pricing and interest in continuing access to these two products.  Based on our findings, there is broad-based support across all types of libraries for the Wilson Select Plus product. 

LTLS closed on 4th of July

The LTLS administrative office in Champaign will be closed Friday, July 4th. There will be no van delivery. The staff at LTLS wish you a very happy Independence Day!

School Delivery Update

There will be no more school delivery stops made for this school year after Friday, June, 6, 2008. If you have questions please contact Bob Towner .

School Closing Dates Needed

LTLS requests the summer closing dates from all school district members libraries.  Please send them to the delivery department at Lincoln Trail. Email delivery@lincolntrail.info or call LTLS at 217-352-0047 (in the main voicemail menu press 2 for delivery). Be sure to include your name, agency code, and closing date. Thank you for your cooperation.

Delivery for Friday, April 18, 2008

LTLS staff has worked diligently today to eliminate the delay for items to be delivered. In order to assure that all items that are currently at LTLS get to borrowing and lending libraries, delivery personnel will delivery to every library that has materials to be delivered on Friday, April 18. This means that libraries that normally don't get delivery will get delivery on Friday if we have materials. Please get your delivery items ready for pick up for us. The delivery scheduled times will probably vary slightly as drivers include all stops on the routes.

Attention: LTLS School Member Libraries

Please send your spring break schedule to the delivery department at Lincoln Trail. Please email delivery@lincolntrail.info or call LTLS at 217-352-0047 (in the main voicemail menu press 2 for delivery). Be sure to include your name, agency code, and closing dates. Thank you for your cooperation.

LTLS Closed Friday February 1 and Deliveries Canceled

Due to the sever weather conditions LTLS is closed Friday, February 1, 2008. All deliveries are canceled.

ILDS & LTLS Van-Deliverable Items

The Illinois State Library has issued a statement that reinforces the policies against sending material other than interlibrary loan items via the delivery services provided by both the regional library systems and ILDS. Transfer of such items through our delivery systems is actually a violation of US Postal regulations. Only interlibrary loan materials and the paperwork directly connected to the items being transferred are permitted to be handled by us. Items that should be mailed include overdue notices, returning library cards, greeting cards, newsletters, donated materials, other correspondence, checks, etc. While we have been fairly lenient with this in the past, the new ILDS administration has begun to enforce such rules, and LTLS will begin returning such items to their originating libraries in the future. Read the full legal write-up on this subject.

Polytalk Featured

Polytalk was featured in Sarah Long’s “Our Libraries” column which ran on January 20 in the Daily Herald newspaper.