Inter-library borrowing procedure and the time taken by the operations: A case study of the Delhi University library

204-210<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:" calibri","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" new="" roman";="" mso-bidi-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:="" en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-US">Details of inter-library borrowing procedures of the Delhi University Library are presented. Nature of requests received, checking of bibliographical details, location of the requested items in other libraries, procurement of these items and time taken to process the request are presented. It has been calculated that the cost of obtaining a document from local libraries and outside libraries comes to Rs. 8. 98 and Rs. 6.69, and it take about 1 hr. 20 min. to process a loan request.