Instruction and Services from YOUR Reference Librarian

Each RIT college has a Reference Librarian to serve as liaison. The Reference Librarian for your college is your first contact for consultation and assistance related to your research and term-paper needs.

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Library Resources - Quick Overview

• Borrowing RIT Library Material: Undergraduates may have up to 25 items checked out at any one time. The books from the general collection have a 3 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.
• Borrowing via Connect NY: Connect NY is a combined catalog of 5 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!
• 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.
• 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.