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Increased Borrowing Privileges for Courtesy Borrowers

Borrowing privileges at the Stony Brook University Libraries may be extended to patrons who are not enrolled or employed at Stony Brook University. Known as “courtesy borrowers,” these patrons may be research assistants, visiting scholars, members of affiliated organizations such as the Brookhaven National Laboratory, or community members. In order

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Interlibrary Loan department recognized for exceptionally speedy service

The Stony Brook University Libraries is now an OCLC Express Digital Delivery library! OCLC Express Digital Delivery is a program that started in January of 2021 and groups together libraries with the fastest turnaround times for interlibrary loan. Qualifying libraries consistently fill requests for digital resources within 18 hours. We

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Information about course reserves for Fall 2020

Due to continuing concerns over Covid-19, the University Libraries will not be lending or checking out any physical items (books) for Course Reserves for the Fall 2020 semester.  We are offering to scan a limited number of book chapters to Blackboard if you require them for your class. Our usual

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