BorrowDirect is back, now with on-site borrowing and access to Johns Hopkins collections
BorrowDirect is available once again to University of Chicago faculty, students, and staff, both through the new Library Catalog as well as lib.uchicago.edu/h/borrowdirect. BorrowDirect offers faculty, students, and staff at Ivy League and other partner institutions unmediated requesting and expedited delivery of items from a combined collection of over 50 million volumes. Since its inception in 1999, BorrowDirect has successfully filled almost 2 million user requests with book delivery in three to five days. The University of Chicago joined the BorrowDirect partnership in June 2013.
Visit our Library Guide for more information about how to use BorrowDirect.
On-site borrowing added through new BorrowDirect Plus agreement
UChicago faculty, students, and staff can now obtain on-site borrowing privileges at BorrowDirect institutions and Duke University as a result of the new BorrowDirect Plus agreement. The BorrowDirect partnership includes Brown, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale.
Availability of specific items and collections and participation of specific campus libraries vary by institution. The lending library’s policies and loan periods apply to UChicago borrowers. It is recommended that users considering a visit to another library view their policies in advance by consulting www.borrowdirect.org/on-site-borrowing. Borrowed items may be returned at either the lending library or UChicago campus libraries.
For the most part, these same materials are already available through BorrowDirect, the rapid online book request and delivery system used by all of the participating institutions with the exception of Duke. The new agreement expands the system to include this in-person component.
Johns Hopkins joins BorrowDirect library partnership
In September, Johns Hopkins University joined the 10 existing BorrowDirect partner libraries to engage in resource sharing and other collaborative library projects. Johns Hopkins University was founded in 1876 and provides information services to more than 21,000 graduate and undergraduate students, 7,000 faculty, 10 divisions, and a wide range of academic and research programs. The Johns Hopkins Libraries contain more than 4.3 million volumes with collection strengths in German and Romance languages, philosophy, the ancient Near East, biomedical engineering, chemistry, and environmental engineering.
