The Northern Regional Library Facility (NRLF) is a University of California off-site cooperative library storage facility located in Richmond. Materials from UCSC (as well as UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, and UC Davis) are deposited into NRLF. Items that are stored at NRLF will have the location "NRLF Storage" in Cruzcat, with a status of either "REQUEST AT ILL" or  "ASK AT MEDIA" or "ASK AT SPECCOL."

All NRLF requests, except for Special Collections material, is brought to the library through the Interlibrary Loan service (for current UCSC faculty, staff, and students) for pickup or use in approximately two working days.

Friends of the Library and UCSC Alumni Association members may borrow UCSC-owned items from NRLF by using the Manual Form with an affiliation of “courtesy borrower.”

Community members without UCSC library cards may request UCSC-owned items that will be library use only when they arrive by using the Manual Form with an affiliation of “I don’t have a library card.”

Ways to request NRLF material for current UCSC faculty, staff, and students:

• From Cruzcat Classic (Click on “NRLF Storage,” look up title in Melvyl, and use Request)
• From Melvyl (Use Request)
• From Citation Linker
• From article databases (Use UC-eLinks)
• Special Collections NRLF request form

For more assistance, please visit Ask A Librarian.