Information Delivery & Library Access: Information Delivery & Access Services

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The Information Delivery & Library Access (ID&LA) area provides information service assistance and enables access to Barker, Dewey, Hayden (Humanities & Science), and Rotch libraries. ID&LA staff work to make the MIT Libraries' collections as useful as possible by providing electronic or physical delivery of content from library collections.

Services offered by ID&LA include:

• Article and book delivery from the Library Storage Annex
• Course Reserves (electronic or print items available for short term loan)
• Interlibrary Borrowing
• Interlibrary Loan to non-MIT institutions
• Privileges for borrowing or access to MIT Libraries and non-MIT Libraries such as Borrow Direct or Harvard Libraries
• Your Account requests (placing recalls, holds, book delivery for faculty)
• Contact circulation@mit.edu with questions about library fines, getting items in the MIT libraries collections, access to non-MIT libraries
• Borrow and request provides answers to many questions about borrowing and returning library materials

Information Delivery and Library Access Staff

Commonly-used ID&LA Email Lists 

Note: These are the most common lists used to contact ID&LA staff. For a more comprehensive list, see our wiki page.