LPS Student Services and Collections

Request materials from other libraries (when not owned by or immediately available at the Penn Libraries)

Reciprocal borrowing agreements with other libraries including our Ivy+ partner libraries

You can request all books, regardless of which library owns it through interlibrary loan forms. Our resource sharing staff find the best and quickest way to get the book for you.

Archival material, dissertations, newspapers, recordings, video, Web sites, books, manuscripts, databases, from libraries around the world. Most libraries in the United States and major libraries from around the world have collections represented in Worldcat.

As members of CRL, Penn Libraries has unlimited access to a collection of approximately five million items, including the largest circulating collection of newspapers in North America; more than 38,000 foreign journals and 800,000 foreign dissertations; major microfilm and paper collections from Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Europe, South Asia, Southeast Asia; and more