SIS - Van Routing

Understanding Van Routing Procedures:

ESC Van Routing - INCOLSA Wheels - Other Options

ESC Van Routing

This van routing system provided by the IDOE, Education Service Centers and Shared Information Service Centers enables patrons to receive and return materials from the SIS centers via the Education Service Centers van routing system free of charge throughout the school year.

To use this van routing system, your school must be a member of an Education Service Center (ESC) that has a van system. If your school is a member of an ESC served by the SIS center from which you request materials, that SIS center will deliver the materials to you in a red nylon bag. You will return the materials, in this same bag, to the pick-up location of the ESC van service in your corporation. If you are unsure of this location, ask your local SIS center or ask your school’s principal, secretary, or administration office. If your school is not a member of the ESC's served by the SIS center from which you request materials, the SIS center will send you the materials, along with a red van bag, via US mail. You will return the materials to the SIS center that serves your ESC via the van system, and they will return them to the original SIS center.

Packaging Materials For ESC Van Routing:

The Shared Information Service centers will place you materials red nylon bag. The bag will be secured with a nylon tie.
On the will be a clear pocket containing a tag indicating the school corporation, teacher's name and school name.
Along with the materials requested will be a packing list, a survey, a nylon tag for when materials are returned, and information about appropriate pick-up dates and locations.
The tag on the bag will need to be flipped over so that it reads either Return to SIS @ Ball State University or SIS @ Purdue Univeristy.
If you do not have a van bag, some ESC van drivers will accept the materials in a plastic bag, box, or envelope labeled "Return to Shared Information Services."
If you have materials from both locations, simply return the materials to the one center of your choosing.
Further information regarding the ESC van system may be attained by contacting either site.

Go to “Locations” to see a map of regions served by each of our centers.

INCOLSA Wheels

The Wheels courier service delivers library materials quickly, efficiently, and inexpensively to all INCOLSA member libraries and their customers throughout the year. Through INCOLSA Wheels, SIS can deliver materials to a library or other member location near you for easier pick-up. As a patron of SIS, you may return your borrowed materials to an INCOLSA member location and ask that they be returned ATTN: Shared Information Services. Visit INCOLSA on the web at www.incolsa.net or contact SIS for a list of member locations as well as addresses and contacts for each location to insure that your materials are returned to the proper place so that we may receive them in a timely manner. Do not drop materials off at your local library under the assumption that they will know where the materials need to go! Make contact with the person listed in charge of INCOLSA materials; make sure that you are dropping them off at a member library; and make sure that the library knows that the materials are to be returned to the SIS center that serves your area via INCOLSA Wheels.

To return materials via INCOLSA Wheels to SIS at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN ask that materials be returned to Purdue University Library ATTN: Shared Information Services, contact: SIS Purdue Center (765) 494-2900.
To return materials via INCOLSA Wheels to SIS at Ball State University in Muncie, IN, ask that materials be returned to Burris Lab School ATTN: Shared Information Services, contact: Susan Robinson (765) 285-2342.

NOTE: If contacts listed here are unavailable, contact your local SIS coordinator.

Mailing Materials

If the you are with a school that is not a member school of an Education Service Center van system or if you are unable to travel to any of the INCOLSA member locations, then the SIS center will mail materials directly to you with the understanding that it is your responsibility to return the materials in person or via US Mail or other mailing service. Packages mailed should be insured.

Questions and Suggestions

We want to make our delivery services work as efficiently as possible and input is welcomed. Questions can be directed to either center, Ball State Shared Information Services or Purdue Shared Information Services.

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