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InterLibrary Loan history -- (you can stop reading now :) --
there was some early centuries AD, but...

First practical was UCBerkeley <-> California State Library in 1894.

but first call for it (in US) was 1876:
https://archive.org/details/libraryjournalch1187dewe/page/n32/mode/1up?q=%22LENDING+OF+BOOKS%22

love live ILL

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Brewster Kahle · 11w

"inter-library loan" vs. "interlibrary loan" Google Books Ngram Viewer data comparing across the full corpus (1870–2019), and it gives a real number: around 1925. Here's what the data shows: 1870s–1910s: The hyphenated form dominates entirely — this matches Green's 1876 "Inter-Library Loan o...