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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.

See how it's done! Watch the Video Tutorial

Instructions for submitting UB requests


  1. From the UW-W Catalog (http://wtwlib.wisconsin.edu).
  2. Select "UB and other catalogs" at the top of the page.
  3. Select all or specific libraries next to UB Libraries and click "Connect".
  4. Enter terms in the search box. select title, etc. and click "Search".
  5. Click "Show" to display the results, then select the desired item and click "Requests".
  6. Enter your ID and last name; and click "Login"
  7. 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 participating in Universal Borrowing.

UW Library
Contact Person
Colleges select specific library
Eau Claire-McIntyre Library John McCrakin MCCRACJM@uwed.edu; (715)-836-3856
Green Bay-Cofrin Library Leah Smith smithle@uwgb.edu; (920)-465-2303
La Crosse-Murphy Library Dwayne Webb webb.dway@uwlax.edu; (608)-785-8524
Madison ** Dineen Grow (Memorial Library) dgrow@library.wisc.edu; (608)-263-1721
Milwaukee-Golda Meir Library Lisa Weikel lweikel@uwm.edu; (414)-229-4132
Oshkosh-Polk Library Roberta Stuemke stuemke@uwosh.edu; (920)-424-3320
Parkside-UW-P Library Marilyn Pinzger pinzger@uwp.edu; (262)-595-2238
Platteville-Karmann Library Molly Hoeper hoeperm@uwplatt.edu; (608)-342-1679
River Falls-Davee Library Julianne Johnson julianne.k.johnson@uwrf.edu; (715)-425-3321
Stevens Point-University Library Andy Pech Andy.Pech@uwsp.edu; (715)-346-4214
Stout-University Library Kristine Assink AssinkK@uwstout.edu; (715)-232-1215
Superior-Jim Dan Hill Lori Hughes lhughes@uwsuper.edu; (715)-394-8130
** Not all UW-Madison Libraries participate in UB lending.

 

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