Featured Service: Libraries 2 U
A faculty member finds a book in the University Libraries’ online catalog that looks promising for her research. When the faculty member is on one campus, say St. Paul, and the book is on another, say Minneapolis East Bank in Walter Library, Libraries to U is the answer. Since the late 1980s, Libraries to U has provided free Twin Cities on-campus delivery of books from the collection to faculty, staff, and students with disabilities. Formerly called Lumina to U (in reference to the online catalog’s former name), Libraries to U also provides photocopying and mailing or scanning and electronic delivery for print journal articles and non-circulating materials, like those in the Andersen Horticulture Library at the Arboretum. If that same faculty member is doing research in Bozeman or Berlin or Brooklyn Park, Libraries to U will send the book to her for the cost of shipping. Approximately 15,000 requests are received each year.


