Colorado Library – Courier Services
Use our Courier Code Lookup Page to search for codes and libraries, schools or academic institutions on the Colorado courier system.
Use our Routing Slip Creator to create and print courier slips.
If you’d like to report a service issue, please visit our “Contact Library Courier” page and select the relevant form.
Libraries are strongly advised to read and understand Colorado ILL Best Practices and the Interlibrary Loan Code for the United States, both of which provide the basis for library resource sharing in Colorado.
User Guides
Click Here to access a directory of guides. You’ll find…
- Courier Best Practices & Procedures
- Delivery Information
- Selected Courier Policies
- Courier Log Sheets templates
- and more
Courier Holidays
Courier services are not available on the following days:
- Thanksgiving
- Christmas
- New Year’s Day
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Memorial Day
- Independence Day (Observed)
- Labor Day
We’ll pick up, ship and resell or recycle your library’s weeded material. That income comes back to help feed CLiC’s bottom line, enabling us to more cost-effectively serve your library across all of our other services! Read more about Program guidelines and material specifications. Please don’t hesitate to contact us with your questions. Want to learn a bit more? Watch our video here…
Costs
With courier costs, each library situation is unique and is dependent on local interlibrary loan practices. Operating costs are calculated annually on behalf of all participating libraries, and are a direct result of the previous year’s resource-sharing activity (July through June).
CLiC has two goals:
- Continue to encourage resource sharing throughout Colorado and to maintain affordable pricing for libraries that voluntarily request to participate in the Courier service.
- Ensure sustainability of the statewide Courier service by maintaining predictability in libraries’ costs while still allowing CLiC to “pay the bills” associated with operation of this statewide service, which has handled more than 1.8 million physical items EACH of the past three years [2022 & 2023 & 2024].
Rates have been reduced for participating libraries for FY24-25! How is this possible?
Resource sharing from last year to this year improved across Colorado, reaching more than 1.9M items loaned & borrowed among libraries, academic institutions and schools. That rise in usage would generate more participatory income from libraries utilizing our statewide infrastructure.
But CLiC does NOT manage statewide courier services to generate profit. By combining a healthy subsidy (more than $225,000) with funds projected to be raised from libraries, CLiC was actually able to reconfigure pricing and reduce costs for libraries to participate — and still cover the overall cost to operate the courier service, which for FY24-25 is anticipated to cost more than $1.1M.
Base Courier Rates (October 2024 - September 2025)
| # of Stops per Week | Last Year FY23-24 Rate | This Year FY24-25 Rate | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Stop | $76.48 | $76.48 | $0 - no increase! |
| 3 Days | $555.95 | $555.95 | $0 - no increase! |
| 4 Days | $1,667.86 | $1,667.86 | $0 - no increase! |
| 5 Days | $2,606.87 | $2,606.87 | $0 - no increase! |
High Volume ILL Fee Chart (October 2024 – September 2025)
| Total ILLs | Last Year FY23-24 Rate | This Year FY24-25 Rate | $Decrease (3% REDUCTION!) |
|---|---|---|---|
| <3000 | $ - | $ - | $ - |
| 3000-3999 | $366.71 | $355.71 | $-11.00 |
| 4000-4999 | $733.42 | $711.42 | $-22.00 |
| 5000-5999 | $1,028.16 | $997.32 | $-30.84 |
| 6000-6999 | $1,381.16 | $1,339.73 | $-41.43 |
| 7000-7999 | $1,747.87 | $1,695.44 | $-52.44 |
| 8000-8999 | $2,034.61 | $1,973.58 | $-61.04 |
| 9000-9999 | $2,395.61 | $2,323.74 | $-71.87 |
| 10000-10999 | $2,741.76 | $2,659.51 | $-82.25 |
| 11000-11999 | $3,234.94 | $3,137.89 | $-97.05 |
| 12000-12999 | $3,614.08 | $3,505.66 | $-108.42 |
| 13000-13999 | $3,993.23 | $3,873.43 | $-119.80 |
| 14000-14999 | $4,291.65 | $4,162.90 | $-128.75 |
| 15000-15999 | $4,672.01 | $4,531.85 | $-140.16 |
| 16000-16999 | $5,042.59 | $4,891.32 | $-151.28 |
| 17000-17999 | $5,300.66 | $5,141.64 | $-159.02 |
| 18000-18999 | $5,671.24 | $5,501.10 | $-170.14 |
| 19000-19999 | $6,035.70 | $5,854.63 | $-181.07 |
| 20000-20999 | $6,328.01 | $6,138.17 | $-189.84 |
| 21000-21999 | $6,692.47 | $6,491.70 | $-200.77 |
| 22000-22999 | $7,056.94 | $6,845.23 | $-211.71 |
| 23000-23999 | $7,673.57 | $7,443.36 | $-230.21 |
| 24000-24999 | $8,052.78 | $7,811.19 | $-241.58 |
| 25000 and above | $.35 per ILL | $.35 per ILL | Flat, No Change |
