Covid-19 Continuity: Explore the library's online resources and services, or consult our service updates.
Access to many libraries — in NYC and around the world — continues to be curtailed because of the coronavirus. Before planning a visit to another library, including any library in the SHARES and/or METRO programs, check to make sure it is open to visitors.
NYPL’s ebook collection supplements ours, and NYPL also offers grab-and-go services for its circulating collection. MaRLI is now MaRLI by Mail.
As of November 5, all NYPL patrons with MaRLI, Research Borrower, and CUNY Graduate Center borrowing privileges may request eligible research items for pickup at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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The New York Public Library (NYPL Research Libraries) offers borrowing privileges, study rooms, and off-site access to e-resources.
MaRLI, the Manhattan Research Libraries Network, allows those approved by NYPL to visit and borrow from Columbia and NYU Libraries.
METRO referrals allow single-day, on-site access to NYC libraries, based on the need for an item that is otherwise unavailable.
SHARES extends university and museum library on-site access to visitors with a current GC photo ID.
GC Interlibrary Loan delivers most resources from other libraries to the GC for pickup.