Borrowing Print Books
You can request print books through our Pick It Up service using in the library catalog. You can pick up books at the PCL main desk.
Searching for Books
You can search for books with these two tools:
Questions about the UT Libraries' borrowing policies (including putting holds on books)? Find info on loan periods, holds, reserves, and more.
Unlimited users.
Click the "Log In" button and choose "University of Texas at Austin" from the drop-down menu. Select "continue" and then enter your EID and password when prompted.
HathiTrust is a large digital library bringing together materials from sources including Google Books, the Internet Archive, libraries at HathiTrust partner institutions, and other commercial digitization projects. Search more than 11 million volumes with more than a third of these available for full text access and download (primarily books and journals published before 1923 and U.S. Government publications).
University of Texas students, faculty, and staff can download materials in the public domain in addition to conducting full text searches of all materials in the HathiTrust Catalog.
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WorldCat is something of a universal library catalog, where you can search records from library catalogs from around the world, in multiple languages. WorldCat is great for niche research when you've hit limits with our UT catalog.
Unlimited users.
Updated continually. Provides access to the world's most comprehensive bibliography, with over 49 million bibliographic records for audio-visual materials, books, maps, musical scores, newspapers, and periodicals in 370 languages and covering information from 4,000 years of knowledge. Many of the holdings for materials at the University of Texas Libraries are included, as well as holdings for other libraries in Texas, the United States and worldwide.
The Black Queer Studies Collection is a groundbreaking project that features the UT Libraries’ unique holdings in the area of African and African Diasporic Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies. This collection is accessible digitally through the Library Catalog.
Learn more about the UT Libraries' the Black Queer Studies Collection.
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