• Instruction/Services
• Library Resources
• Are You a Grad Assistant? Info Specific for YOU

Instruction and Services from YOUR Reference Librarian

Each RIT college has a Reference Librarian to serve as liaison (click here to view list). The Reference Librarian for your college is your first contact for consultation and assistance related to your research needs. Find out more about Research Assistance.

Library Resources - Quick Overview

• Borrowing RIT Library Material

  Grad students may have up to 50 items checked out at any one time. The books from the general collection have a 10 week due date and are renewable if not need by another. The library also has leisure material for your use: best-selling books, videos and DVD's. ALL borrowers pay late recall fines, billed book fees and lost book costs. Avoid fines, learn more....read our Borrowing Policies.

• Course Reserves

  Designed to provide students a central place to access supplemental course materials from their professors. We provide materials to in two formats as chosen by your professor: traditional (print) and online (password-protected delivered via the Internet) Read more.

• Borrowing Books Directly via Connect NY

  Connect NY is a combined catalog of 10 cooperating academic libraries offering 7+ million volumes. Current RIT students, faculty and staff may borrow materials from other Connect NY libraries if RIT Library does not own books or our library's copy is a checked-out. Find out more!

• Information Delivery Services (interlibrary loan)

  If RIT Library doesn't have a book or journal article that you need most likely we can get it for you thanks via our interlibrary loan service provided by the Information Delivery Services (IDS) department and requesting is all done online via IDS Express.

• The ACCESS Card

  Another service available to graduate students needing extensive use of other participating libraries after RIT Library's resources have been fully utilized and exhausted.

  Cards are issued to a limited number of faculty, graduate students and professional research staff members.

  Those requiring specific titles or those engaged in short term projects are referred to our interlibrary loan service.

  Applications are to be made only after the resources of RIT have been exhausted. Click HERE to apply online.

  ACCESS is a cooperative effort of area libraries, coordinated by the Rochester Regional Library Council (RRLC).

What Grad Assistants Need to Know About the Library

This guide (click here) is specifically written for the Graduate Assistant asked to do library research as part of their GA assignment.