On March 18, 2011, "The New York Public Library and the libraries of Columbia University and New York University have launched a pilot initiative to expand access and use of collections and better serve their users.  The collaboration, dubbed the Manhattan Research Library Initiative (MaRLI), will enable NYU and Columbia doctoral students, full-time faculty and librarians, and approved New York Public Library cardholders with a demonstrable research need not met by currently available resources, to borrow materials from all three institutions."

Both NYPL and NYU have extensive and important Judaica collections, and this will be the first time that NYPL’s research collections will circulate (albeit with exceptions).

For more information about the MaRLI, and to register, go here:  http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/projects/marli.html