IMPORTANT: If you have difficulty placing requests in MelCat please contact the Library for help.

Placing Holds on the MelCat Catalog

Do you need a Book or Material that our library doesn’t have?

You are now able to request your own Interlibrary Loans from the MeLCat Statewide Database.

Cromaine District Library is pleased to announce that our library is one of the newest additions to MeLCat, the Michigan Electronic Library Catalog. MeLCat is Michigan's new statewide online union catalog and resource sharing system. It contains the combined holdings of all participating Michigan libraries and is expected to eventually include approximately 12 million unique titles representing 48 million items. Other Michigan libraries will be added to MeLCat on an ongoing basis for the next several years.

Our Library patrons will enjoy the following benefits through MeLCat:

• Ability to request library materials from any place at any time
• Monitor the status of your own information requests
• Search over the Internet to quickly identify materials owned by all types of libraries statewide.

We have always offered interlibrary loan service to our patrons. Now you can initiate your own interlibrary loan requests by using MeLCat or you may continue to receive assistance from a librarian. In order to make requests and borrow materials, a person must be a registered library card holder in good standing.

How to renew a MeLCat ILL item

MeLCat participants allow one renewal per item. You cannot renew an item until 7 days before the due date. Login to MyMel in MeLCat, locate the item to renew and select renew. To renew an ILL item, call the library at least five business days before the item is due. A one time renewal of interlibrary loan materials is granted at the discretion of the lending library.