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Services for Students, Faculty, and Staff

  • Request DeliveryPlace requests via IUCAT for delivery of materials held by libraries within the IU system
  • Office Delivery: Faculty & Graduate StudentsFaculty 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 DeliveryIUB faculty, staff and students may request digital copies of journal articles held only in print and microform formats within Bloomington campus collections
  • Rush Cataloging RequestSubmit a request for any title marked in IUCAT as "on order," "in process," or "being cataloged" and for IU dissertations not yet cataloged
  • Request Books by MailIU students, faculty, and staff can request books to be delivered to a mail address in the U.S.

Services Available to IU Affiliates & Unaffiliated Researchers

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

Requesting Materials Not Owned by IU Libraries

  • Borrowing privileges at other institutions for IUB affiliatesReciprocal borrowing programs to borrow from other colleges and universities in person

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