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Please have your active PUID card available to check out any material from the libraries. Notify the libraries if your PUID is lost or stolen. Notify the libraries if material is lost or stolen. If you do not have an active PUID, you may be eligible for a visitor's borrowing card. Ask staff at any Circulation Desk for details or check Visitor Information.
There is currently no limit on the number of items you can have checked out to your account at one time.
Current faculty (including visiting scholars), staff, and students with an active PUID and visitors with an active borrowing card may request materials from the Libraries for pickup at any campus location. Faculty, staff, and visiting scholars who request materials be delivered to their on-campus building (i.e. KRAN) should expect delivery within 2-3 business days via campus mail. Emeritus faculty and official retirees who retain access to their PUID and library account may also request materials for pickup from any campus library location. There is currently no limit on the number of items you can request at one time. Not all print collections are available for request. If you have questions about what you can and cannot request, please contact us for assistance.
As part of our document delivery services, if you request via Interlibrary Loan a book owned by Purdue, Libraries staff will place a request on the book for you through your Libraries' My Account and the book will be delivered to you according to the method you provided on the original interlibrary loan request (includes Personal Delivery - please see below for more information).
Need help requesting materials? Check out this short video.
Faculty, staff, retirees (including emeritus faculty), graduate students, and online-only undergraduates have the option to request home delivery of Libraries-owned print materials (within the United States only). Eligible print materials will have a "Personal Delivery" drop-down request option in Library Search after clicking "Request Hold." Not all print collections are available for this service. If you're not planning to return to campus, materials may be mailed back to us at
You are responsible for return postage. If you're returning to campus this summer or fall, you may bring those materials back with you and return them to any campus library location.
Faculty, staff, and students affiliated with Purdue University in Indianapolis can borrow items from the West Lafayette library. Items will be shipped to a patron's home or dorm address. We cannot ship via campus mail. Items can be returned via mail or at the IU Indianapolis University Library. For book drop locations, see IU Indianapolis information for returning materials.
By filling out the Request for Proxy Services form, a patron authorizes another patron to check out items on their account and accepts responsibility for those items. Proxies are used mainly for the convenience of faculty members so that graduate students or other assistants can pick up items from the library using their own Purdue ID to charge it to the faculty member's account. Proxies can be non-Purdue affiliates as long as they have a valid (non-expired) visitor card.
Most items from our core collections (includes serials and journals) are due in 17 weeks for faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students. Library staff reserve the right to change due dates if materials are needed for course reserve. You will be responsible for fines/fees related to not returning those materials.
Loan Periods for non-core loan items are:
We will continue to automatically renew eligible materials checked out by Purdue patrons. Visitors will need to manually renew their materials or call/email us for assistance. Items that have been requested by another user and limited loan materials are not eligible for auto-renewal.
You can Renew the material you borrowed by the due date to extend the loan period. Core Loan Materials may be renewed. Limited Loan materials (e.g. Cornerstone Reading Room), with the exception of media, are not renewable.
You will be responsible for paying any fines or fees for late return or non-return of library materials checked out on your PUID. For lost items, replacement copies may be accepted - please contact Circulation Services for guidance before you make any replacement purchases. Refunds for paid materials will not be given after one year from payment.
For all billing inquiries, contact Circulation Services at (765) 494-0369 or circservices@purdue.edu.
In addition to being returned to any campus library, or via campus mail (to: CIRC SERVICES / LIBR / STEW) materials may also be returned to the following mailing address:
Purdue Libraries/Circulation Services
504 Mitch Daniels Blvd
West Lafayette IN 47907
You may also return your library materials (including Interlibrary Loan and PurdueBorrow materials) to a NEW outdoor book return located between Academy Park and the Stewart Center docks. This book return will only be emptied Monday through Friday in the mornings, so there may be delays in returns processing.
We have resumed our normal billing activities related to non-return of materials.
765-494-0369 circservices@purdue.edu
