Default due dates

From the NHAIS mailbox:

Does every NHAIS library have the same default length of time auto populate the 'due date field' for books they're lending to other libraries? Is there a certain length of time that a library is required to lend a title for? If that's something that can be altered in the default due date field, is that a change that a library can make themselves?

All libraries have the same default lending period used to calculate the due date--except those libraries that have completed and sent to NHAIS Services a Lending Policy form, which allows you to specify default loan and renewal periods for different formats. It also lets you specify which formats you will and will not lend through interlibrary loan.

The NH ILL Protocol Manual says "The recommended interlibrary loan period for books shall be six weeks. The loan period for all other formats of materials, if they are not six weeks, shall be specified in the written interlibrary loan policy of the individual library." (Don't have a written interlibrary loan policy? Developing Your Interlibrary Loan Policy can help you create one.)

There's lots more information about due dates in a 2022 NHAIS Notes post.