Borrow Books and Other Materials
- Borrowing Books from LauingerLearn about the policies for checking out books from Lauinger Library.
- The Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC)The WRLC was established in 1987 by some of the major universities in the Washington D.C. area to share library collections and information technology in order to enhance the resources available to their students and faculty. Georgetown participates in the WRLC through its Consortium Loan Service (CLS) and through cooperative collection development. You can request consortium member books through the WRLC catalog and they will be sent to Lauinger Library for pickup.
- Scanning RequestIf you need a chapter or article from a book or journal Georgetown owns at any of our campus libraries, you can place a request through our Interlibrary Loan system, and we will make the scan for you. It's quick and easy, and you will receive the PDF in your email.
Pro Tips
Paging Books: We will page books for you! Need a book from our collection (Lauinger, Blommer, Bioethics, OCS, etc) but don't have time to locate it in the stacks? Simply request the item in HoyaSearch and our staff will grab it for you. Once it is ready for you at our Circulation desk, you will be alerted via email and can come pick it up.
Self Checkout: Want to check out a book, but the Circ desk is closed? There are self-checkout machines located on the 2nd, 3rd floor, and 4th floors of Lauinger Library.
Course Reserves
Course Reserves provides electronic and media materials to instructors who request them. Electronic reserves are PDF files of scanned journal articles or selected book chapters. Media reserves generally refers to streaming video, but can also refer to audio.
Electronic and media reserves, if your course has them, should be accessible via your course’s Canvas page. When an instructor requests electronic reserves, Access Services provides PDFs and streaming media directly to the instructor, who then adds them to the respective course’s Canvas page.
If you do not see media reserves or electronic reserves that you are expecting to find in Canvas, please ask your instructor where to find them. Instructors who would like assistance acquiring reserves or posting reserves to Canvas can email us at reserves@georgetown.edu.
Multimedia Equipment
We loan media equipment! Cameras, microphones, projectors, chromebooks, DVD drives, convertors, cords, you name it! You can look at what we have to offer and reserve it here.
- Multimedia EquipmentLists multimedia available for check out from Lauinger Library.
Printing, Scanning & Photocopying
- Printing & ScanningInformation on printing from computers in library and your laptop, scanning/photocopying and copy cards, etc.
