If you do not see your question answered here, feel free to Ask a Librarian.
Libraries are offering access to many in-person services, including book pickup, collection access, study spaces, computer labs, and equipment checkout. Review our Library by Appointment page to learn what locations and what services are available. Alternatively, our Locations page, or our all-in-one services table can help discover library hours and services.
Print/Scan Appointments are available at Business, College, Memorial, and Steenbock Libraries.
Alternatives to printing on campus
In many cases, you can upload documents electronically in Canvas, or share via Google docs or email. Please check with your instructor and consider alternative approaches for note-taking, studying, and document sharing.
For non-course related printing needs, FedEx, UPS, and Insty-Prints (Monona) stores offer printing services. We recommend you call the locations to determine if they are still open and offering printing.
Print/Scan Appointments are available at Business, College, Memorial, and Steenbock Libraries.
There are several ways to scan documents at home with just a smart phone or tablet:
Contact the Circulation Office and if possible, include your locker/carrel location & number, contents of locker/carrel, and needed items. You will be contacted when they are ready to be picked up at Memorial Library.
It is currently not possible to deposit your thesis at Memorial Library. Instead, follow these instructions posted on the Graduate School website.
Yes! The Libraries are offering pickup by appointment services: You can put items on hold in the catalog and then schedule an appointment to pick up these items at Memorial Library or Steenbock Library.
This service allows access to items from AMP, Art, Business, College, Geology, iSchool, Law, Memorial, Middleton Shelving Facility, Music, Science Libraries Shelving Facility, Social Work, Steenbock, Verona Shelving Facility, and Wisconsin Historical Society.
More information is available here.
We are also working to digitize books upon request. If you know you only need some chapters or specific pages, you can place a request using our Interlibrary Loan service. Log in to your account, choose the option to Request an Article, and fill out the form with the book chapter’s information as best you can. (If you are unsure which chapters or pages to request, please Ask a Librarian for assistance.) You will receive an email when the chapter is available online for you to download. We are currently prioritizing items needed for course content at this time, so some requests may take time to fill.
The Libraries can send available, circulating materials to graduate students, faculty, and staff who reside and work outside of Dane County. Please see Distance Services for more information.
Books and materials that you got from any campus location can be placed in the outside book returns at College, Memorial, and Steenbock. Items returned via the book return may remain on your account for some period of time, but fines will not be assessed.
Please don’t use the drop box for returning equipment.
Having loans at the time of graduation does not prevent you from graduating.
Questions about returning material or your library account, <a href=”https://www.library.wisc.edu/memorial/spaces/service-desks/circulation-office-170/”>please contact the Circulation Office</a>.
Books and materials that you got from any campus location can be placed in the outside book returns at College, Memorial, and Steenbock.
Equipment can be returned to the location from which it was checked out. Please double-check that all cables, bags, and support materials are in the equipment bag before returning the item.
Items returned are quarantined for at least a week, so your account information may not reflect the return until the items pass through quarantine.
No. Having library materials checked out at the time of graduation does not prevent you from graduating.
All materials returned will be quarantined for at least 7 days. This means that returned items may stay on your record for the period of this quarantine and some amount of time after the quarantine period, as it will take some time to process all the returned materials. Note that any overdue fines generated during this time will be waived.
If you are not able to get to Madison to return items, they may be returned via postal service to Memorial Library. It is recommended that items be insured before sending via USPS, as patrons are responsible for materials until they reach the library. Please note that standard item replacement fees begin at $100.00 and equipment replacement fees can be much higher.
Address items to:
Memorial Library, Room 166
728 State Street
Madison, WI 53706
Contact circulation@library.wisc.edu with any questions or concerns you have about returning general library materials, and direct questions about equipment circulation and returns to technologycirculation@library.wisc.edu.
Yes, College, Memorial, and Steenbock Libraries have laptops available for checkout for two weeks. DoIT has laptops available to be shipped to faculty, staff, and students if they are not able to come to campus.
College Library is also checking out AV equipment – including still cameras, video cameras, and audio recorders – to be used in support of classes, research, and instruction.
Equipment returns now have a 2-week loan period. Please do not return equipment (laptops, cameras, headphones, etc.) via the book returns.
Maybe – we provide access to many ebooks, and academic publishers have been making their content freely available during this disruptive time. You can Ask a Librarian to see if your textbook has online availability. You can search our catalog for the book. We are also keeping a list of publishers that have opened up content for free in response to the COVID-19 emergency. If the book is only available in print, course instructors can contact us to see about having it digitized.
Students should ask their instructors about how to access course content.
Instructors who need assistance or have questions about replacing their physical reserves (including asking us to digitize items in our physical reserves) can go to our Course Content for Instructional Continuity page and use the “Course Content Support Form.”
We support teaching at a distance and are prepared to support instructors with alternative modes of instruction during this disruptive event. Visit the library support for instructional continuity page to learn about course support and instructional services provided by the Libraries.
Using the library website, navigate to the resource you want to use. The resource will eventually ask you to log in with your NetID. Once entered, this remains active until you exit your browser or are logged out after 6 hours of inactivity. For more information see our page on Off-Campus Access.
The campus VPN does not automatically give you access to library resources. Accessing resources from links on the library website will ensure you get access, on or off the VPN. Note that some publishers block our VPN’s IP address, and so you cannot use the VPN when trying to access their publications.