Borrowing and Delivery

Requests:

• Items that are checked out (Recall/Hold/Borrow Direct)
• Items in other Cornell libraries (Library-to-library book delivery)
• Books to be delivered to faculty offices
• Books in the Library Annex

Note: There is no fee for scanned articles from books or journals in the Library Annex. Other requests for scans of articles from the Cornell Library may be free as well, please see the Document Delivery page for details.

• Articles from Cornell libraries (Document Delivery)
• Articles from the Library Annex (Document Delivery - no fee)

• Items from non-Cornell libraries:
  • Borrow Direct
    Use for delivery of books that Cornell University Library does not own or are unavailable (checked out, lost, etc.).
  • Interlibrary Loan
    Use to request delivery of books, videos, etc. as well as copies of articles that Cornell University Library does not own.
  • Interlibrary Lending for non-Cornell institutions and individuals

Circulation Policies

• Returning books

Policies by user group:

• Faculty & staff
• Graduate students
• Undergraduate students
• Card holders
• Visitors
• Weill Cornell Medical College visitors
• Proxy Borrowers