Where to Return Items

Most items can be returned to any listed location. Indoor drop boxes may require an MCard for access.

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 located outside the Interlibrary Loan Office in Hatcher North. This helps us promptly check in items and remove them from your account. The information services desks listed below also accept these returns, but processing may be delayed.

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: To the left of the south building entry doors (behind the Clements Library)
• Shapiro Library: Southwest corner near the emergency exit doors and South University driveway
• Pierpont Commons: At the drive-up entrance off of Murfin Avenue

Send by mail

If you've left campus, you can mail items back to the library:

University of Michigan Library
913 South University Avenue
Room 104
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Drop boxes by campus location

Central Campus

Hatcher Library

• North lobby drop box
• North Information Services Desk
• South drop box (outside)
• South Information Services Desk

Shapiro Library

• Outdoor drop box near the southwest corner of building
• 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 6370) 

Medical Campus

Taubman Health Sciences Library Information Services Desk

North Campus 

Duderstadt Center

• 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

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)

North Campus Research Complex

• Drop box inside the MLibrary@NCRC space (Building 18, Room G018)

Athletic and South Campuses 

Museums Library in the Research Museums Center has a drop box and is available 24/7 with an MCard to U-M museum curators and researchers

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)
• 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)