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if you can't find what you need from the Mardigian Library, you can:
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Borrowing Information

Other Services

  1. Proxy Cards
    • Eligibility: Current UM-Dearborn students, faculty and staff
    • Apply to: Mardigian Library items
  2. Submitting UM-Dearborn Student or Visiting Scholar Verification Form
    • Eligibility: Current UM-Dearborn faculty and department admins
    • Faculty and department admins can submit this form to grant students/visiting scholars library privileges.
  3. Booking Mardigian Library Videos & DVDs
    • Eligibility: Current UM-Dearborn faculty
  4. Faculty Course Support Form
    • Eligibility: Current UM-Dearborn faculty

Did you know?

  • Newspaper Subscriptions
  • Currently enrolled students and currently employed faculty and staff are eligible for a free digital subscription to the New York Times (NYT) (some limitations apply) and Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

  • Access requires creation of accounts for each site. Full details and setup instructions are available on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal setup pages.

Who Can Borrow

Materials Needed

Borrowing Privileges

  • Mardigian Library physical books
  • Mardigian Library audio visuals
  • Mardigian Library journals
  • Mardigian Library Electronic Resources (databases, e-books, electronic journals, etc.)
  • Other UM Campuses physical books
  • MeLCat books
  • MeLCat e-books
  • MeLCat audiovisuals
  • Interlibrary Loan materials

Currently registered UM-Dearborn students, faculty and staff may use all library services, including off-campus access to journals and databases. UM-Dearborn students who do not take classes during the summer term will still have access to all library services, as long as they were registered for classes in the previous winter semester.

UM-Dearborn graduate students who are finishing a thesis or dissertation, but are not enrolled in classes, must have a Visiting Scholar verification form on file with the library to have access to library resources.

All University of Michigan borrowers must present a valid MCard (UM photo ID card) in order to check out materials. Current UM-Dearborn students, faculty and staff may get or replace their MCard at the University Center Information Desk.

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