Borrow, request, and interloan items
How to borrow items, place requests, and return items.
Request an item during Alert Level 2 (from Monday 13 September 2021)
Request a physical item from any of our collections. You can collect it from your chosen library, couriered to your home, or have a chapter emailed to you.
Request an item during Alert Level 3 and including 8 to 12 September 2021
Request a physical item from the Kelburn or Law Libraries. You can collect it from the Kelburn campus, have it couriered, or have a chapter emailed to you.
Borrowing
The Library’s borrowing services with information about access to our physical and online resources to support your study and research.
Interloan
Use this service to request items not held by the Victoria University of Wellington Library. The service is for your private research, study and teaching only.
Make a purchase recommendation
Recommendations for the purchase of Library resources can be made by any member of the University community.
Request an item from another location
For books, journals and audiovisual material at other library locations you can make a request through Te Waharoa and pick up from your chosen campus.
Find an item on the shelf
Find physical items on the Library shelves that you’ve found in Te Waharoa search results.
Distance requests
The Distance service allows eligible students to borrow books by post, arrange interloans from other libraries, and receive articles/book chapters by email.