BorrowDirect Resource Sharing Service
BorrowDirect enables faculty, students, and researchers at participating libraries to discover, request, and rapidly receive physical materials from 14 of the world’s premier library collections. Founded in 1999 by Columbia University Libraries, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, and Yale University Library, the program grew to include the libraries of Brown University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), New York Public Library, Princeton University, Stanford University, and the University of Chicago. Drawing on a collective collection of over 90 million items, members have supplied millions items to their collective library users since 1999. Since July 1, 2025, BorrowDirect is administratively hosted by ReCAP (Research Collections and Preservation Consortium).
