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Through our membership in the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium (PALCI), the Library presents .

Students, faculty, and staff can simultaneously search the catalogs of nearly 60 academic libraries, and directly request and borrow books not available at this library. Your requested books arrive at this Library usually within 4 to 7 business days, and will be available at the Circulation Desk.

All you need: your USP ID card and the thirteen or fourteen digit LIB number on the front of it (if this doesn't describe your number, please contact Cynthia McClellan at 215 596-8961).

Only books can be ordered through ; you pick them up at the J. W. England Library and return them here. Use ILLiad to request articles

Participating libraries include the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Villanova University, the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, Rutgers University, University of West Virginia, and the colleges of Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore.

See the complete list of participating libraries.

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