NYPL & MaRLI (Manhattan Research Library Initiative)

NYPL extends borrowing of select material for GC affiliates, for pick-up and return at an NYPL research library. Register for NYPL extended borrowing privileges by bringing an NYPL card (apply online or in person at any NYPL location) and a GC ID card to an NYPL research library. With these, NYPL library staff will issue a CUNY-GC sticker for your NYPL library card that signals extended borrowing privileges. 

GC affiliates with extended borrowing privileges may borrow select materials in the Research Catalog (https://www.nypl.org/research) and the ReCAP Shared Collection (https://www.nypl.org/scc) for pick-up and return at an NYPL research library, with 120-day loans, renewable by in-person request. NYPL extended borrowing cards renew every September.

• Science, Industry and Business Library (lower level information desk),
• Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, room 217
• Library for the Performing Arts
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 

Databases and E-Book Collections

Any NYPL barcode allows off-site access to many NYPL research library databases, including e-book and archival collections not available through the GC Library. Use your NYPL barcode to reach NYPL e-resources from the NYPL site (https://libguides.nypl.org/eresources).

Also see the NYPL's online Research Guide Resources for Graduate Students:  Collections for additional information about the NYPL's research centers, collections, databases, and more.  

Any New York Public Library cardholder in good standing at all participating libraries and without any current fines is eligible to apply for the MaRLI program. Applicants must demonstrate a need for research materials not held by the New York Public Library, but that are held by Columbia or NYU libraries.  

New Requirements for MaRLI.  Until the end of September 2019, applicants must first acquire a New York Public Library card, then consult in-person with a librarian at an NYPL Research Library to determine eligibility. Applicants then complete online application for MaRLI membership as directed by the NYPL librarian reviewer. Applications are usually processed within five business days with results e-mailed from marli@nypl.org.

As of October 1, 2019, admission to MaRLI will not be application-based. Instead, an in-person consultation with an NYPL research librarian determines an applicants eligibility to use Columbia and NYU libraries on-site. NYPL reviewers will extend MaRLI privileges only when NYPL resources are determined to be insufficient and all other available resources are exhausted, and when research requires unique materials available only at NYU or Columbia libraries. 

How do I inquire about MaRLI privileges?

1. Schedule a general research consultation with a librarian at NYPL Research Libraries: https://www.nypl.org/ask-nypl/make-appointment-librarian 
    
2. During your consultation, a librarian will determine how NYPL’s collections can support your research and what other options, including but not limited to MaRLI, may be available.
    
3. If MaRLI is offered to support your research, you will receive additional information about activating your borrowing privileges at NYU or Columbia.
    
4. Members of the MaRLI program will receive renewal details in early September of each year, and will need to opt-in to continue their participation. Doctoral students and faculty will need to show a current student ID at an NYPL research library to renew.

Upon admission to the program, MaRLI participants will need to visit a research Library location to retrieve and to authorize or to update a MaRLI library card. Bring the required identification listed here.  For more information, see the MarLI page at NYPL.org/research.