Borrow Direct - Revision history

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 [[File:Borrow-direct.jpg|thumb|Borrow Direct's current logo]]
 [[Image:Borrowdirectlogo.jpg|thumb|180px|Borrow Direct's old logo]]
-'''Borrow Direct''' is an interlibrary borrowing service allowing [[Morningside Heights campus]] students to borrow books from Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Penn, Princeton, and Yale<ref>http://library.columbia.edu/find/request/borrow-direct.html</ref>.
+'''Borrow Direct''' is an interlibrary borrowing service allowing [[Morningside Heights campus]] students to borrow books from Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Penn, Princeton, and Yale<ref>http://library.columbia.edu/find/request/borrow-direct.html</ref>. In [[2013]], [[UChicago]] joined the service.
 Much faster than Interlibrary Loan (ILL), Borrow Direct is a great way to obtain books that are checked out, on reserve, or otherwise unavailable within the Columbia University library system.

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 Borrow Direct books have a loan period of six weeks, with one six week renewal. Anecdotally, lending institutions rarely charge overdue fines despite the fact that patrons are warned that such fines may be charged and strongly advised to return items promptly in service of of "good relationships with our partner libraries."
-If available, requested materials will be ready for pickup within four or five business days of the original request. Anecdotally, the average is two. In one user's totally subjective personal experience, [[Yale]] and [[Princeton]] libraries are fastest (sometimes delivering books within one day).  In another student's experience, books borrowed from Brown tend to have a distinct sour smell.
+If available, requested materials will be ready for pickup within four or five business days of the original request. Anecdotally, the average is two. In one user's totally subjective personal experience, [[Yale]] and [[Princeton]] libraries are fastest (sometimes delivering books within one day).
 According to one professor of [[English and Comparative Literature]], every book delivered via Borrow Direct costs $10 in transportation, processing, upkeep, etc.

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 Borrow Direct books have a loan period of six weeks, with one six week renewal. Anecdotally, lending institutions rarely charge overdue fines despite the fact that patrons are warned that such fines may be charged and strongly advised to return items promptly in service of of "good relationships with our partner libraries."
-If available, requested materials will be ready for pickup within four or five business days of the original request. Anecdotally, the average is two. In one user's totally subjective personal experience, [[Yale]] and [[Princeton]] libraries are fastest (sometimes delivering books within one day).
+If available, requested materials will be ready for pickup within four or five business days of the original request. Anecdotally, the average is two. In one user's totally subjective personal experience, [[Yale]] and [[Princeton]] libraries are fastest (sometimes delivering books within one day).  In another student's experience, books borrowed from Brown tend to have a distinct sour smell.
 According to one professor of [[English and Comparative Literature]], every book delivered via Borrow Direct costs $10 in transportation, processing, upkeep, etc.

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-[[File:Borrow-direct.jpg|thumb|Borrow Direct's logo]]
+[[File:Borrow-direct.jpg|thumb|Borrow Direct's current logo]]
-[[Image:Borrowdirectlogo.jpg|thumb|180px|Borrow Direct's current logo]]
+[[Image:Borrowdirectlogo.jpg|thumb|180px|Borrow Direct's old logo]]
 '''Borrow Direct''' is an interlibrary borrowing service allowing [[Morningside Heights campus]] students to borrow books from Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Penn, Princeton, and Yale<ref>http://library.columbia.edu/find/request/borrow-direct.html</ref>.

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 [[File:Borrow-direct.jpg|thumb|Borrow Direct's logo]]
-[[Image:Borrowdirectlogo.jpg|thumb|180px|Borrow Direct's old logo]]
+[[Image:Borrowdirectlogo.jpg|thumb|180px|Borrow Direct's current logo]]
 '''Borrow Direct''' is an interlibrary borrowing service allowing [[Morningside Heights campus]] students to borrow books from Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Penn, Princeton, and Yale<ref>http://library.columbia.edu/find/request/borrow-direct.html</ref>.

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-[[Image:Borrowdirectlogo.jpg|thumb|180px|Borrow Direct logo]]
+[[File:Borrow-direct.jpg|thumb|Borrow Direct's logo]]
-'''Borrow Direct''' is an interlibrary borrowing service offered by all of the Ivy League Universities except [[Harvard]].
+[[Image:Borrowdirectlogo.jpg|thumb|180px|Borrow Direct's old logo]]
-It allows students, faculty and staff at these institutions to request books directly from each others' collections.
+Much faster than Interlibrary Loan (ILL), Borrow Direct is a great way to obtain books that are checked out, on reserve, or otherwise unavailable within the Columbia University library system.
-Much faster than Interlibrary Loan (ILL), Borrow Direct is a great way to obtain books that are checked out, on reserve or otherwise unavailable in the Columbia University library system.
+Borrow Direct books have a loan period of six weeks, with one six week renewal. Anecdotally, lending institutions rarely charge overdue fines despite the fact that patrons are warned that such fines may be charged and strongly advised to return items promptly in service of of "good relationships with our partner libraries."
-Borrow Direct books have a loan period of 4 weeks. No renewals are permitted. However, lending institutions rarely proceed to charge overdue fines for late books despite the fact that patrons are warned that such fines may be charged and strongly advised to return items promptly for the maintenance of "good relationships with our partner libraries."
+If available, requested materials will be ready for pickup within four or five business days of the original request. Anecdotally, the average is two. In one user's totally subjective personal experience, [[Yale]] and [[Princeton]] libraries are fastest (sometimes delivering books within one day).
-If available, requested materials will be ready for pickup within four business days of the original request. In one user's totally subjective personal experience, [[Yale]] and [[Princeton]] libraries are fastest (sometimes delivering books within one day).
+According to one professor of [[English and Comparative Literature]], every book delivered via Borrow Direct costs $10 in transportation, processing, upkeep, etc.
 == External links ==
-*[https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/lweb/requestit/borrowdirect/ Borrow Direct website]
+*[http://library.columbia.edu/find/request/borrow-direct.html Borrow Direct website]
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