School vacations

School librarians please take note: as the academic year winds down, please remember to tell NHAIS Services if you will not be responding to requests in the NHAIS ILL System during the summer. We'll set your account so new requests won't be routed to your location during your vacation. This helps move requests along to active libraries, rather than letting them sit around waiting and waiting for a closed library to respond.

Contact the NHAIS Help Desk with your vacation information (library name, first and last dates you won't be responding to ILL) via e-mail or call 603-271-2141.

If your school's calendar for 2026-27 is already fixed, you can submit vacation dates for the entire school year now--there's no need to wait. Fill out the School Closed Dates form and send it to NHAIS Services.

To check whether you've already submitted vacation dates, go to Staff Dashboard > ILL Admin > Participant Record > Holiday List. If you see appropriate start and end dates listed there, you need do nothing more.

You may get curious about other things in the Participant Record while you're on that page. For an explanation of what it all means, see a 2022 NHAIS Notes post.