Interlibrary Loan Brings The World’s Libraries To Your Door

Did you know that Newport Library Has almost 1 BILLION(!!) books, movies and audio items in over 360 languages?  

Sounds too good to be true? Well, yes and no. Within its four walls, Newport Library maintains a collection of about 100,000 physical items, give or take. This doesn’t count the thousands of downloadable audio and video products available through our Library2Go service. Nor does it include the many additional thousands of items available within our two-county Coastal Resources Sharing Network.

But we also have an Interlibrary Loan service (ILL) whose database, WORLDCAT, contains over 1.2 billion physical and digital items worldwide. Presently, Newport Library is able to borrow from any free lender within the United States, so our real numbers are a bit smaller, but you get the idea. Newport Library’s ILL service is a great way for students, researchers, or just the curious, to obtain hard-to-get material not usually found in smaller public libraries. If it exists at all, ILL can probably get it for you.

Click here to access the WORLDCAT database or stop by Newport Library and let us show you the world. You can also email your ILL requests directly to the library using this form.