The BorrowDirect partnership, which currently includes the libraries of Columbia and Cornell Universities, Dartmouth College, Princeton University, The University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University as well as Brown, will be expanding later this year to include the Harvard and MIT libraries. With this expansion, Brown users will have direct access to an additional 20 million books (and over 50 million total books and other items in the collective collections of the Ivies and MIT).

All of the libraries of Harvard and MIT (including the professional schools) will be participating, but operations for lending and borrowing will be implemented in varying stages during this year. We expect the first of Harvard’s collections, as well as MIT’s, to be available in late spring or early summer. Other collections from Harvard will follow.

Please send questions or comments to libweb@brown.edu