{"id":146,"date":"2010-09-20T15:49:11","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T20:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/09\/20\/using-borrow-direct\/"},"modified":"2010-09-20T15:49:11","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T20:49:11","slug":"using-borrow-direct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/09\/20\/using-borrow-direct\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Borrow Direct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wanted to borrow a book held by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.cornell.edu\/\" title=\"Cornell University Library\">Cornell University Library<\/a> system only to find out it is checked out, on reserve, or missing?\u00a0 Even though Cornell has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.cornell.edu\/aboutus\/collections\/strength\" title=\"Cornell Library collections overview\">almost 8 million volumes<\/a>, this can certainly happen.\u00a0 What to do?\u00a0 If the book is signed out to another reader you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.cornell.edu\/svcs\/borrow\/chkd\" title=\"About recall\">recall<\/a> the book from the reader who has it, which can take up to two weeks.\u00a0 Or, you can go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.cornell.edu\/svcs\/borrow\/bordir\" title=\"About Borrow Direct\">Borrow Direct<\/a> and request it.<\/p>\n<p>The Borrow Direct group consists of Ivy League schools that have agreed to loan each other books for a month&#8211;so you have just gained access to seven additional university libraries.\u00a0 The books generally arrive within four working days.\u00a0 Now you can even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mannlib.cornell.edu\/news\/borrow-direct-new-and-improved\" title=\"Mann Library Borrow Direct info\">renew<\/a> books obtained through Borrow Direct.<\/p>\n<p>To obtain a book through Borrow Direct online, go to Requests in the Online Catalog, doing a search, and requesting the book.\u00a0 Your request is tracked and you are kept informed when your request has been received, when it has been filled by the lending library, and when it has arrived at Cornell.\u00a0 You can then pick up the book at the circulation desk in the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.lawschool.cornell.edu\/\" title=\"Cornell Law Library\">Law Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, not only do you have the libraries at Cornell subject to your requests, you have those other Ivy League Schools library materials available to you.\u00a0 If you have any problems making a request, please see someone at the circulation desk.\u00a0 They will be happy to assist you.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wanted to borrow a book held by the Cornell University Library system only to find out it is checked out, on reserve, or missing?\u00a0 Even though Cornell has almost 8 million volumes, this can certainly happen.\u00a0 What to do?\u00a0 If the book is signed out to another reader you can recall the <a href='https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/09\/20\/using-borrow-direct\/'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[339],"tags":[637,310],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}