Q. What is BorrowDirect?

If you are a current student, staff or faculty member at Yale University, you are eligible for BorrowDirect services.

BorrowDirect is a cooperative program that allows current students, faculty and staff at participating universities to borrow materials from one another. Participating schools are:

• Brown University
• Columbia University
• Cornell University
• Dartmouth University
• Duke University
• Harvard University
• Johns Hopkins University
• MIT
• Princeton University
• Stanford University
• University of Chicago
• University of Pennsylvania
• Yale University

If a book at Yale Library is unavailable (lost, checked out, on reserve, or not part of our collection) but is available at a participating BorrowDirect Library, you may place a request through the BorrowDirect catalog. It will be available within four business days.

Click here to search BorrowDirect.

Visit the BorrowDirect website for more information.