Graduate Student Services

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.

Request materials from other libraries (when not owned by Penn Libraries)

We have shared borrowing agreements with other libraries, including our Ivy+ library partners.

Worldwide search for library materials. This catalog shows which libraries own searched items. We are often able to obtain books identified through Worldcat through our Interlibrary Loan service.

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