{"id":6,"date":"2013-10-23T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries-test.mit.edu\/document-services\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:07:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:07:01","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/docs\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Resource Sharing offers free interlibrary borrowing services to the MIT community, and lends materials to domestic &amp; Canadian institutions.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>MIT users<\/h2>\n<p>MIT Libraries can get you virtually anything you need. If we don&#8217;t already own or subscribe to it, we have library-sharing networks and article delivery services with these turnaround times:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Electronic items:<\/strong>\u00a0under 1 minute to 4 days, depending on the item<\/li>\n<li><strong>Physical materials:<\/strong> 3-10 days (specialized requests can be longer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Guide to find, request, and get the materials you need:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/research-support\/get-materials-via-the-libraries\/\"><strong>Get materials via the MIT Libraries<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Best bets if we don&#8217;t own an item:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Articles: <\/strong><a href=\"\/illiad\">Request via ILLiad<\/a> | <a title=\"Interlibrary Borrowing (ILB)\" href=\"\/docs\/ilb\/\">ILB\/ILLiad guide<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Books: <\/strong>Search <a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.mit.edu\/worldcat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MIT&#8217;s WorldCat<\/a> to request directly via <a href=\"\/borrow-direct\">BorrowDirect<\/a>. If this option isn&#8217;t available, there will be a link in the record to request the item via ILB using MIT&#8217;s <a href=\"\/illiad\">ILLiad<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>MIT community members can also <a href=\"\/borrow\/non-mit-access\/\">borrow from other institutions in person<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"loan\">Non-MIT libraries looking to borrow materials from MIT collections<\/h2>\n<p>Use our Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service: <a href=\"\/docs\/ill\">See our ILL guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resource Sharing offers free interlibrary borrowing services to the MIT community, and lends materials to domestic &amp; Canadian institutions. MIT users MIT Libraries can get you virtually anything you need. If we don&#8217;t already own or subscribe to it, we have library-sharing networks and article delivery services with these turnaround times: Electronic items:\u00a0under 1 minute to 4 days, depending on the item Physical materials: 3-10 days (specialized requests can be longer) Guide to find, request, and get the materials you need: Get materials via the MIT Libraries Best bets if we don&#8217;t own an item: Articles: Request via ILLiad | [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/page-front.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/docs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}