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)If you need materials that Georgetown does not own, we also have access to the collections of the WRLC libraries. This consortium gives you access to 12 million volumes owned by 9 different DC area schools. With the 5 day a week courier service, we can receive items from these partner libraries in 1-3 days.
- Borrow Books from Other LibrariesIf the item is not available at Georgetown, but is available at a consortium library, select Consortium Request in HoyaSearch. To request a book beyond the DC area, place a request through Interlibrary Loan.
- 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! It can be reserved here, and you can look at what we have to offer 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.
Computers & WiFi
- Computers & WiFiInformation on WiFi, laptop use, computer software, charging stations, etc.
