When an item you need is not owned by Fondren Library, or is unavailable, you may request to borrow the item from another library.
Has It Been Digitized?
Google Books Brings together millions of titles from the dawn of printing to the present day. Out-of-copyright books are available in full text.
Internet Archive Over 2,000,000 digitized books and manuscripts.
Hathi Trust A shared digital repository of United States' great research libraries.
Digital Libraries
Biblioteca Digital Hispánica
This virtual library of the Biblioteca Nacional de España provides digital access to thousands of books printed before the 20th century, manuscripts, prints, drawings, pamphlets, posters, photographs, maps, and other materials.
Biblioteca Nacional Digital Brasil
The components of this virtual library from Brazil's Biblioteca Nacional provide digital access to rare books, manuscripts, drawings, maps and other materials.
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
Includes thousands of classical texts from Spain and Latin America in digital format. Also links to publishers, libraries, archives, and many other resources.
Digital Library of the Caribbean
dLOC is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. It provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.
Latin American Open Archives Portal
Provides access to social sciences grey literature grey literature (working documents, pre-prints, research papers, statistical documents, and other difficult-to-access materials typically published by research institutes, non-governmental organizations, and peripheral agencies that are not controlled by commercial publishers) produced in Latin America..
Memória - Biblioteca Nacional Digital, Portugal
Full-text access to fundamental Portuguese texts related to art, science, law, education, history, language, literature, music, and other areas. .