Circulating Collections

Request a New Book

If there is an upcoming or recently released title you would like to see at the Redwood, use this REQUEST FORM to recommend it for our collections. Please fill out as much information on the form as possible.

Members can also use Interlibrary Loan to request an item as a temporary loan from another institution. For more information about this service, please see the Interlibrary Loan tab.

Interlibrary Loan Policy for Redwood Library Members

For current members, the Redwood Library & Athenaeum can obtain items which the library does not hold in its collections through both in-state and out-of-state interlibrary loan requests. These requests may be for books, audio-visual materials, journal articles, and any other circulating material generally expected to be held in collections of cooperating libraries.

To request a item please use our ILL FORM.

Who may use Interlibrary Loan?

Members of the Redwood may place an interlibrary loan request. There is no guarantee that requests will be filled, but every reasonable effort will be made to obtain requested items on a timely and free basis. Members will be informed of the status of their loans if the item is proving difficult to obtain.

How do I request an item from another library?

To make an interlibrary loan request please speak to the staff member at the circulation desk or fill out this ILL FORM.

Please supply as much information as possible (author, title, publication date, etc.) and either a phone number or email address.

Requests without contact information CANNOT BE PROCESSED.

How much does the service cost?

Generally, ILL items will be sent at no charge between libraries; however, there may be instances where the lending library may charge a fee for lending or duplicating materials. If the patron is willing to pay for the requested materials, they must do so before the materials are sent. Under no circumstances will the Redwood pay the interlibrary loan charges on behalf of a member.

When will I get my books?

Interlibrary loan requests will be filled as quickly as possible. Turnaround time varies depending upon the lending library and materials requested. Patrons will be notified by telephone or email when their materials arrive at the library.

When are interlibrary loan books due? Are there late fees?

Loan periods and late fees are set by the lending library. Generally, loan periods range from 2-4 weeks. Members keeping items past the due date are responsible for all late fines set by the lending library.

Please note that ILL materials are subject to recall by the lending library at any time.

What is the renewal policy?

Renewal policies are also determined by the lending library. Please request a renewal before the initial loan period is up. This allows us ample time to contact the library and receive their reply before the item must be returned.

Where do I return materials?

Please return interlibrary loan materials at the circulation desk or in the book drop if the library is closed.

Redwood Library ILL Lending Policy

The Redwood Library fills requests of circulating materials for OLIS and OCLC libraries. Depending on size and condition, most circulating materials will be sent to requesting libraries. Scans or other reproductions requested through ILL will be assessed and filled based on Fair Use Copyright restrictions. Special Collections materials will not be sent out via ILL, but are available to view in our Reading Room by appointment.

For any questions regarding our ILL Lending Policy, please contact Willa Anderson at ill@redwoodlibrary.org.

NONFICTION

• Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science by Renee Bergland
• Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer
• After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations by Eric Cline
• The Believer: A Year in the Fly Fishing Life by David Coggins
• The Island: War and Belonging in Auden’s England by Alan Pell Crawford
• Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World by Eric Jay Dolin
• Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham
• Liberty, Equality, Fashion: The Women Why Styled the French Revolution by Anne Higonnet
• This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America’s Revolutionary War in the South by Nicholas Jenkins
• The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective by Steven Johnson
• Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen through the Lives of the Soldier Poets by Michael Korda
• Decade to Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861 by Robert W. Merry
• Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes by Clive Oppenheimer
• An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America by Matthew Stewart
• Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna, and the Discovery of the Modern Mind by Frank Tallis

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR

• Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End by Alua Arthur
• The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It by Corey Brettschneider
• Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius by Carrie Courogen
• The Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World by Andrew di Robilant
• The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America by Sarah B. Franklin
• An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• A Gardener at the End of the World by Margot Anne Kelley
• Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball by Keith O’Brien
• How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomerantsev

FICTION 

• The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez
• The Goddess of Warsaw by Lisa Barr
• Trust Her by Flynn Berry
• The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier
• Broiler by Eli Cranor
• Teddy by Emily Dunlay
• Assassins Anonymous by Rob Hart
• W.E.B. Griffin Zero Option by Peter Kirsanow
• A Better World by Sarah Langan
• When We Were Silent by Fiona McPhillips
• A World of Hurt by Mindy Mejia
• The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Extinction by Douglas Preston
• The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
• Very Bad Company by Emma Rosenblum
• Middle of the Night by Riley Sager
• A Spy Like Me by Kim Sherwood
• Death in Cornwall by Daniel Silva
• God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer by Joseph Earl Thomas
• Ladykiller by Katherine Wood

MYSTERY

• Don’t Let the Devil Ride by Ace Atkins
• Death of a Master Chef by Jean-Luc Bannalec
• Return to Blood by Michael Bennett
• To Seize a Queen by Fiona Buckley
• The Widow Spy by Megan Campisi
• Eruption by Michael Crichton & James Patterson
• If Something Happens to Me by Alex Finlay
• The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley
• The Last Word by Elly Griffiths
• Watch Where They Hide: A Jordan Manning Novel by Tamron Hall
• Smoke and Mirrors by M.E. Hilliard
• The Mayfair Dagger by Ava January
• The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby by Ellery Lloyd
• Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies by Catherine Mack
• I Need You to Read This by Jessa Maxwell
• Cabaret Macabre by Tom Mead
• The Hollow Tree by Philip Miller
• God of the Woods by Liz Moore
• Farewell, Amethystine by Walter Mosley
• Hunted by Abir Mukherjee
• Death in the Air by Ram Murali
• Granite Harbor by Peter Nichols
• Come to the Window by Howard Norman
• The Devil Raises His Own by Scott Phillips
• A Talent for Murder by Peter Swanson
• Bright Objects by Ruby Todd
• Locked in Pursuit by Ashley Weaver
• Holy City by Henry Wise

Circulating Periodicals

America: The Jesuit Review of Faith and Culture
American Ancestors
American Gardener
Antiques*
Architectural Digest
Art in America
Art New England
Atlantic Monthly
Boston Globe & Magazine
Boston Magazine
Britain
Consumer Reports
Cooks Illustrated
Cruising World*
Down East
Early American Life
Economist
Esquire
Financial Times
Fine Gardening*
Food & Wine
Forbes
Foreign Affairs
Gardens Illustrated*
Harpers Bazaar
Harpers Magazine
Harvard Business Review
Harvard Health Letter
History News
Horticulture – Magazine of American Gardening
House Beautiful*
Jamestown Press
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
Lapham’s Quarterly
Literary Review
National Geographic
Naval War College Review
New England Historical & Genealogical Register*
New England Home
New York
New York Review of Books
New York Times
New York Times Book Review
New York Times Magazine
New York Times Style Magazine
New Yorker
Newport Daily News
Newport Harbor Guide
Newport History: Journal of the Newport Historical Society*
Newport Life Magazine*
Newsweek
Old-House Journal*
Preservation*
Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute
Providence Journal
Report from Newport: Salve Regina University Magazine
Rhode Island History*
Rhode Island Monthly
Sailing World
Saturday Evening Post
Sea History
Smithsonian
Spectator
The Green Light: Bulletin of the Point Association of Newport, RI*
The Times of the Rhode Island Historical Society
TIME Magazine
TLS: the Times Literary Supplement
Town & Country
Vanity Fair
Vogue
Wall Street Journal & Magazine
Yachting
Yankee

*We also hold back issues of these periodicals in either our Circulating or Special Collections

cloudLibrary eBooks and eMagazines

Redwood Library members can download the cloudLibrary app by searching in the Apple App Store or Google Play OR going to “get the app” in the dropdown menu on cloudLibrary’s homepage. Login using the same ID and Pin you use to access your account in our catalog.

Kanopy

Members can now watch over 26,000 titles through the Kanopy streaming service. Each month, members are given a 30 ticket allotment. Most content costs 2 tickets per viewing, while episodic content (including Great Courses) is ticketed and assigned a viewing period based on total running time. Users will see how many tickets a title will use and how long they will have to watch it before pressing play.

Download the Kanopy app from the Apple App Store or Google Play for mobile viewing. Members will need their full library card number in order to make an account. If you have any trouble setting up your account, please contact redwood@redwoodlibrary.org

Naxos Music Library

Our members have access to the music streaming service, Naxos Music Library. You can listen on your PC from or download the app from the Apple App Store or Google Play. Please contact the front desk to access login information.

Sanborn Maps

Redwood members have to access over 660,000 maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities from 1867 to 1970 in electronic form through the Sanborn Digital Maps database. Please contact the front desk to access login information.