Request Materials (IU-owned)

Students, faculty and staff can request and receive Libraries materials in a number of ways: 

  • Request Delivery – place requests via IUCAT for delivery of materials held by libraries within the IU system
  • Office Delivery for Faculty & Graduate Students -  Faculty and graduate students able to receive packages via campus mail in a secure office or mailbox may request items to be sent direct to their campus office
  • Request Article Delivery – IUB faculty, staff and students may request digital copies of journal articles held only in print and microform formats within Bloomington campus collections
  • Rush Cataloging Requests – submit a request for any title marked in IUCAT as "on order," "in process," or "being cataloged" and for IU dissertations not yet cataloged
  • Books By Mail - IU students, faculty, and staff can request books to be delivered to a mail address in the U.S. 

The following services are available to Indiana University affiliates as well as to unaffiliated researchers:

  • ALF Request – request delivery of items held at the Ruth Lilly Auxiliary Library Facility (ALF), our offsite collections vault
  • Lilly Library Request System – place requests electronically through IUCAT and Archives Online for Lilly Library materials to be used in the reading room, or to order reproductions

Find more information about borrowing, circulation and other customer access services.

Requesting materials not owned by IU Libraries