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1. Verify that Pratt does not own the item by using PrattCat (the libraries' catalog) to search for books by title or articles by periodical title.

2. Place a request. To make an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) request, you have 3 choices:

3. You'll receive an email when the item has been received. For most articles, you'll receive a link to the PDF of the file. For physical books, they'll be held at the reference desk for you.

4. Return the item by the date specified. The lending periods may differ from your standard loan period and the length of the loan is determined by the library that sent us the item.

For more information go to: https://library.pratt.edu/services/interlibrary_loan/ or contact the ILL department, either at the Brooklyn Campus Library at illbklyn@pratt.edu, (718) 230-6841, or the Manhattan Campus Library (Pratt Manhattan Center #410) at illmanha@pratt.edu, (212) 647-7547.

Pratt Libraries is part of ALB Consortium (Academic Libraries of Booklyn), so you can get an ALB card and check out 2 books from participating institutions.

A Librarian can write you a METRO PASS to visit a library you don't have access to. You won't be able to check out the item, but you can copy or scan what you need.

ALB Cards and METRO Pass information are available at the Reference Desk on the first floor of the Brooklyn Library and at the Circulation Desk at the Manhattan Library.

The map below shows other libraries in NYC and your level of access to them.

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 Remember that with library resources especially, it pays to search smart:

use AND in between search terms to group them together

use OR for more results

use NOT if you want to exempt a word from your results

use quotation marks "_" to isolate phrases

use the wildcard * to get all versions of a word