Community Borrowing Card Holders (Library Donors)

Donors of $50 or more to the Libraries’ charitable funds are eligible for a Community Borrowing Card. Whether donors give to the Library Impact Fund or any other library fund, they have the following library privileges:

• Access to campus libraries and physical collections
• Loans of UW-Madison items, up to 999 items. See loan periods below.
• Requests of UW-Madison physical materials to be picked up at the campus library of choice, up to 5 requests at one time.
• Loan renewals
• On-campus access to databases, full-text electronic materials, and other digital resources
• On-campus guest wireless access
• Visitor-level access to computer technology and printing

The following services are NOT available:

• Off-campus access to UW-Madison licensed electronic resources
• UW System materials
• Interlibrary loan or requesting from other institutions
• Remote Delivery
• Borrow equipment at InfoLabs circulating locations
• Reserve study rooms at campus libraries

UW-Madison also offers some fee-based services to the public.

Friends members with an active community card can continue to use the services that that card provides. Applications for new and renewal cards should be made online at go.wisc.edu/borrowcard.

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