Access VDX: https://alberta.vdxhost.com/vdx
Please remember: Libraries are required to check their VDX queues every day that they are open.

Alberta Interlibrary Loan website - This is an Interlibrary support website for Alberta public library staff set up by Chinook Arch.  It provides lots of great information on resource sharing, shipping, Gov’t courier lists, tips, links, and VDX (however, the VDX manual on the website is for Chinook Arch libraries only. Please refer to the documents below for assistance with VDX). To log in, enter your VDX login and password.

To view the most current VDX materials, please download the following documents:

• Quick Reference Guide (updated September 2016)
• Quick Tips (updated February 2014)
• VDX Manual for PLS Member Libraries
• Using TAL Online for ILL (updated May 2018)
• PLS ILL Bookbands
• Creating an On-the-Fly Record to check-out VDX items to your patrons 
• Lending Out Your Items to Satisfy a Request from a Non-TRAC Library  (updated June 2016)
• Requesting from US Lenders
• Borrower Work Queue Statuses
• Inclusions List (updated February 2014)
• Requesting an item not in TRAC (2018 pilot for VDX Lower-Use Libraries)
• VDX Glossary
• VDX Reports

Video Tutorials

• Requesting an Item With VDX
• Receiving an Item With VDX
• Returning an Item With VDX
• TAL Online for Library Staff
• TAL Online My Public Library Account