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Universal Borrowing

Universal Borrowing is a free service that allows UW-Whitewater students, faculty, and staff to obtain books, videos, DVDs, tapes, records, government documents, and microfilm from other UW System libraries. The lending library ultimately determines which materials are lent, but generally reference, periodicals, and special collections items may not be borrrowed.

Universal Borrowing requests can be made online through the library catalog. In most cases, materials take 2-4 days to arrive. You can track the progress of your UB requests via your personal record and you will be sent an email when the item arrives. Once received, materials are kept at the Circulation Desk for 10 days and are returned if not picked up.

Materials not available from another UW library can be requested from another library using InterLibrary Loan (ILL)

Students may borrow materials for 28 days and renews their items once if there unless another patron has requested the item. Staff and Faculty may borrow UB materials for a semester, and are allowed one or two renewals (depending on the lending library). All renewals must be done online by accessing your personal record. Questions related to overdue or renewing UB items should be directed to the Circulation Department of the Lending UW Library.

Instructions for submitting UB requests


  1. Begin at the University Library Homepage.
  2. Click on UW-W Catalog.
  3. Select "UB and other catalogs" at the top of the page.
  4. Select all or specific libraries next to UB Libraries and click "Connect".
  5. Enter terms in the search box. select title, etc. and click "Search".
  6. Click "Show" to display the results, then select the desired item and click "Requests".
  7. Enter your ID and last name; and click "Login"
  8. Enter your ID number for verification and click on "Submit Request".

For a guided tour of Universal Borrowing, please visit our online tutorial.

 

UW Libraries particpating in Universal Borrowing.

UW Library
Contact Person
Colleges select specific library
Eua Claire John McCrakin MCCRACJM@uwed.edu
Green Bay Leah Smith smithle@uwgb.edu
La Crosse Dwayne Webb webb.dway@uwlax.edu
Madison ** Dineen Grow dgrow@library.wisc.edu
Milwaukee Lisa Weikel lweikel@uwm.edu
Oshkosh Roberta Stuemke stuemke@uwosh.edu
Parkside Marilyn Pinzger pinzger@uwp.edu
Platteville Molly Hoeper hoeperm@uwplatt.edu
River Falls Julianne Johnson julianne.k.johnson@uwrf.edu
Stevens Point Andy Pech Andy.Pech@uwsp.edu
Stout Kristine Assink AssinkK@uwstout.edu
Superior Lori Hughes lhughes@uwsuper.edu
** Not all UW-Madison Libraries participate in UB lending. Currently the Business, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics, Memorial, Music, Physics, Social Science Reference and Wendt Engineering libraries do not lend books through Universal Borrowing.

 

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