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Borrow, request and interloan items

How to borrow items, place requests, and return items.

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.

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