Library

All Reed Library books are searchable in the library catalog. This includes reserves books, ebooks, rare books, and Reed theses.

Find it

Search the Reed catalog from the library homepage or start a new search directly in the library catalog. Use the drop-down in the search box to limit to reserves books, or use filters to narrow your search results.

I found what I want. Now what?

Get it from the library stacks

Find the book on the shelves in the library, and bring it to the circulation desk to check out.

Request for library hold shelf pickup

Be sure to login! You won't have request options unless you're logged in.

Select "Reed Item Request", then select your preferred pickup location. You'll get an email when your requests are ready, and you'll have 5 days to pick them up before they'll be reshelved.

Digitization request

Only need a chapter or a few pages? Make a digitization request! Please allow 4-5 business days. The library cannot scan an entire book or multiple chapters.

1. Go to the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) form and login with your Kerberos
2. Select the most relevant option under "New Request" on the left.
3. Fill out the form. The more information you provide, the easier it is to fill the request.
4. You will get an email notice when your request is ready as a PDF.

Things to know

Reed books check out for 28 days for students, and longer for thesis students, faculty, and staff. If you lose a book, a replacement fee will get charged to your account. Learn more about checkout length, recalls, and replacement fees.

Special types of books

• Reserves books check out for limited time because they're on reserve for a particular class. You can take reserves books out of the library. Bring the call number to the circulation desk to get a reserves book.
• New books, theses, and oversize books check out for normal periods of time, but are shelved in special locations.
• Rare books and Artists' books are part of Special Collections and Archives. Contact archives@reed.edu to learn how to access these books.
• Reference books, current journals, and bound journals are available to use in the library and can't be checked out.

Summit is a borrowing service from a group of academic libraries in the Pacific Northwest that agree to share books with each other. Search and request books from Summit libraries in the Reed library catalog.

Find it

Search the library catalog using the "Books, Articles, and More" or the "Reed + Summit" drop-downs.

I found what I want. Now what?

Request for library hold shelf pickup

Be sure to login! You won't have request options unless you're logged in.

Select "Request from a Summit Library", then select your preferred pickup location. You'll get an email when your requests are ready (usually 3-5 business days), and you'll have 5 days to pick them up before they'll be sent back.

Things to know

Summit books and media check out for 12 weeks. If you return a book late or lose it, a fine will get charged to your account. Learn more about checkout length, recalls, overdue fines, and lost fees.

Request books from libraries anywhere in the world with Interlibrary Loan (ILL), free of charge.

Find it

Find books in WorldCat. If you already have a citation for a book, go to the next steps.

I found what I want. Now what?

Pickup from the library hold shelf

1. Go to the Interlibrary Loan form and login with your Kerberos
2. Select the most relevant option under "New Request" on the left.
3. Fill out the form. The more information you provide, the easier it is to fill the request.
4. Interlibrary Loan staff will contact you about preferred pickup locations.
5. You'll get an email when your requests are ready, and you'll have 5 days to pick them up before they'll be sent back.

Digitization request

Only need a chapter or a few pages? Make a digitization request! Follow the steps above, selecting "article" or "book chapter" in the New Request menu. You'll get an email when your request is ready as a PDF. It can take 4-5 business days, but could be shorter or longer. Libraries cannot scan an entire book or multiple chapters.

Things to know

The library that lends the book decides the checkout period and lost item replacement fees. Please return books on time! Other libraries might not lend to us if we're consistently late in returning books. Learn more about checkout length, recalls, overdue fines, and lost fees.

Check Multnomah County Library

The Multnomah County public library has books, ebooks, audio books, magazines, streaming video, and more. All Reed students and faculty can get a free library card. Extra public library perk: get free passes to the Portland Art Museum, Portland Japanese Garden, Rose City Rollers, and more! Check out our guide to Multnomah County Library.

Reed books

Reed books check out for 28 days for students, and longer for thesis students, faculty, and staff. Renew Reed books in your library account. Reserves books must be renewed in person.

Summit books

You can renew Summit books for 6 additional weeks. Select "renew" in your library account.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL) items

The library that lends the book decides if they'll allow renewals or not. Make a renewal request in your Illiad account in "View > Checked Out Items / Renewals". Select the linked transaction number, then "Renew Request". Books that don't renew will often come with a paper attached that says "No Renewals".

Return books--from Reed, Summit, or ILL--during library open hours near the circulation desk, just inside the inner library doors. Please return your reserves books here during open hours!

Return books anytime at the top of the lobby stairs or ramp, to the right of the lobby elevator.

If you need a Reed book that someone else has checked out, place a request so that you're next in line. We'll also send a recall notice, letting the current borrower know to return the item if they're done with it. The due date doesn't change.

If you need something before the due date, ask at the circulation desk or send an email to library-circ@reed.edu. We'll ask the borrower to return the item if they're done.

If we don't have something that you need for your thesis, the library might be able to buy it and check it out to you. Contact the subject librarian for your major with the title, author, ISBN, and any important details about your request.

If you need it immediately, request the book through Summit or Interlibrary Loan as well. Books can take some time to order and get into the library.