Borrow Direct (BD) provides access to BOOKS not in the Dartmouth College collection - as well as to books that are currently unavailable from the Dartmouth collection (checked out, on reserve, in process, missing, on order, or non-circulating).

Borrow Direct provides direct access to the combined Library catalogs of:
Brown University • Columbia University • Cornell University • Princeton University • University of Pennsylvania •Yale University

** Your Dartmouth ID is your "Patron ID" **
                No need to register

Submit requests:

* Click on the DartDoc image above.
* At the Library Home Page - look under FIND IT
* In the Library Catalog - look for the Can't find it? box on the right side of the screen.

* In BD search for books by Author, Title, or ISBN (there is no Keyword searching)
* At the search results - click on the Request button.
* Verify your Name.
* Choose a Pickup Location.
* Scroll down and click on Submit Request.

When the book arrives you're notified by e-mail.

Borrow Direct delivers most book requests to Dartmouth within 4 business days.

You can request material NOT OWNED by the Dartmouth College Library through this interlibrary loan service. The Library will try and obtain material of any type or format – the lending library chooses to honor our request, or not.

** First time users must Register (only once) and create a User Name and Password **

Submit requests:

* Click on the DartDoc image above.
* At the Library Home Page - look under FIND IT
* In the Library Catalog - look for the Can't find it? box on the right side of the screen.

* ILL takes a certain amount of time, approximately  7-10 days for microforms, books, or other volumes. Less time for journal articles.
* Include a complete citation for the material:
 Books: author, title, publisher, date of publication.
 Articles: author, article title, journal title, volume no., pages, date of publication.
  – it speeds the process at our end and insures the lending library will supply the correct item(s).