Under a program sponsored by OCLC, ULS provides its faculty upon request with a card that extends borrowing privileges to more than 150 other research libraries in the United States and Canada. ULS reciprocates by opening its collections to visiting scholars. Particularly in recent years, ULS has been working more closely with the other doctoral institutions in Virginia. Representatives from both the interlibrary loan departments and the collection management departments meet regularly and are working on cooperative projects that are aimed at sharing resources and increasing access. RALC also includes a program whereby VCU students can borrow items from any of the cooperating libraries with a signed pass.
Faculty have access to the same service through their identification cards.
As a Resource Library for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, ULS is looked upon as a primary supplier in the Southeast. Through a variety of institutional memberships, the library has developed partnerships with various libraries. Within Virginia its most important work has been done with the Virginia Council of Health Science Librarians and with the Richmond Health Interest Group. VCU was one of the key institutions in establishing the Virginia Medical Information System, which is being funded through a grant. ULS also has several smaller cooperative arrangements.