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View your ILL requests, books, and articles. You can also fill out loan requests for books and articles.

Library Catalogs

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Use the following tools to get books from other libraries:

Prospector
Borrowing through Prospector has been paused. You may be eligible to continue to request through Prospector if you are affiliated with other participating libraries, which include many Colorado public libraries.

Request books from Colorado libraries that will come in just a few days. Use to request books Boulder doesn't have, or that are checked out.

WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch)
Use Worldcat to find books from all over the country that you can get via interlibrary loan by clicking "Request from ILLiad":

eBooks

HathiTrust
Partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of public domain titles digitized from libraries around the world.
JSTOR
Digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.
Internet Archive
A collection of freely accessible eBooks published across a range of subjects and disciplines. Use any email address to sign up for an account and borrow up to 10 eBooks at a time.
Access note: Log in required. Use any email address to register for an account and borrow up to 10 eBooks at a time. For help, see our Internet Archive help guide.

Note: The libraries also have a guide to assist you with finding eBooks. Please contact me if you have any questions, or use the link at right to request a purchase.

Literatures in English