Where to Return Items

We encourage you to hold on to your library books while our buildings are closed. If you must return, please use the outdoor drop boxes. See returning borrowed items during COVID-19 for details.

Most items can be returned to any listed location.

Please return all media items (such as CDs and DVDs) directly to a staffed information services desk or use the designated media drop box at the Music Library. This helps ensure materials do not get damaged.

It’s best to return interlibrary loan materials to the drop box outside the Interlibrary Loan Office in the Hatcher Library, so the items can be checked in promptly and removed from your account. The information services desks listed below also accept these returns, but processing may be delayed.

Individuals who have difficulty returning items due to disability can contact the Interlibrary Loan Office to arrange support.

Outdoor drop box locations

Outdoor drop box locations are available at all times, even when library locations are closed. Items returned during closed hours will be backdated to prevent any inadvertent late fees.

Hatcher Library: Drop box to the left of the south building entry doors (behind the Clements Library)
Shapiro Library: Drop box near the southwest emergency exit doors (near the South University Avenue driveway)
Pierpont Commons: Outdoor drop box at the drive-up entrance off of Murfin Avenue

Central Campus

Hatcher Library

North Lobby drop box
North Information Services Desk
South drop box (outside)
South Information Services Desk

Shapiro Library

Southwest drop box (outside near the southwest emergency exit doors)
Shapiro Lobby drop box
Shapiro Lobby Information Services Desk
Askwith Media Library Information Services Desk (room 2002)

Fine Arts Library

Fine Arts Library drop box (next to the Information Services desk)
Fine Arts Library Information Services Desk

North Quad

Donald Hall Collection desk (room 6470)

Medical Campus

Taubman Health Sciences Library Information Services Desk

North Campus

Duderstadt Center

Duderstadt Center Information Desk on floor 1
Art, Architecture, and Engineering Library’s Information Services Desk on floor 2
Pierpont Commons (outdoor drop box at the drive-up entrance off of Murfin Avenue)

North Campus Research Center (NCRC)

Drop box in the library space in Building 18, Room G018 available 24/7 to anyone with NCRC access

Music Library

2 drop boxes outside the library entrance (one for CDs/DVDs and the other for books)
Music Library Information Services Desk
Drop box on floor 5

Taubman College of Architecture drop box (floor 1, under the stairs near the southeast exit)

Athletic and South Campuses

Buhr Reading Room Information Services Desk

Museums Library in the Research Museums Center

U-M Dearborn

Mardigian Library: Interlibrary loan items and U-M Ann Arbor and Flint items must be returned in person to the user service desk on the first floor

U-M Flint

Thompson Library

Drop box at the entrance (outside) d
3rd floor lobby drop box
3rd floor circulation desk

French Hall drop box on floor 3 (near elevators)

William S. White Building drop box on floor 1 (near the information desk)