State of Iowa Libraries Online

SILO is a joint program of the State Library of Iowa and the Iowa State University Library. For more information about the SILO program, including our history and the technology we use, follow the About SILO link in the left column.

Resource Sharing

• See important news about the Iowa Locator changes in 2008
  
• We offer resource sharing services, including the Iowa Locator and SILO ILL, to all types of libraries in Iowa.
• The Iowa Locator Union Catalog contains over 15 million holdings from 703 Iowa libraries of all types.
  
• The SILO Interlibrary Loan System was used to fill over 106 thousand requests from October of 2005 through September of 2006.
  

Hosted Services

• We provide DNS, e-mail, and web hosting services to Iowa's public libraries.
• DNS and e-mail hosting services are available to any public library with a high-speed Internet connection.
• Web hosting service will be made available through the PLOW Project as part of the Staying Connected Grant from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

For more information about any of our services, including how-to guides and online manuals, click on the name of the service in the left column.