Books that have been borrowed for you from other DC-metro area academic libraries

We wanted to remind everyone that we switched library systems last year, providing broader and faster access to other DC-metro academic library collections as well as our own. Several of you have taken advantage of this feature and have books checked out from these other libraries.  To see if any particular book you have checked out is from another library, just look at the barcode on the book, and it should list the lending library.

The majority of of the titles borrowed for you from these other libraries have a semester long loan period, and this semester, the due date is May 31st  and that due date would have been listed on the rider in the book when you received it.  While any lending institution should send you an overdue notice via email, the obligation to return or renew the item exists even without that notice.

Because these materials belong to another library, we have no ability to waive any fees that those libraries charge. If you wish to renew any items, please sign into your library account (use the “sign in” link at the top right) and renew the titles; again, since these titles belong to another library, we have no ability to do this for you.  If you wish to return the titles, just send them our way (e.g., library drop boxes, circulation desk), and we’ll ensure that they are returned to the lending locations.  Items that are not returned or renewed will be moved into “lost” status, and the lending library will charge you at least $110 for each such item.

Access to the Washington Post and New York Times

General newspaper subscriptions are normally undertaken by a University’s undergraduate library, but as the costs for these two national newspapers are unusually high for libraries and determined by student headcount, it is not currently affordable university wide.  We have decided to establish our own subscriptions, and the access for both is restricted only to our campus. For The Washington Post access via the following link:

https://wrlc-gulaw.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991010839083504113&context=U&vid=01WRLC_GUNIVLAW:01WRLC_GUNIVLAW&lang=en

Our site license subscription provides unlimited data access to content published on the Washington Post website, which is complete back through 2001, to any user within the Law Center.  This subscription unfortunately does not include access to their archives.

For the New York Times, we set up the subscription with Portal. All faculty members need to register every year because the system grants 1 year access only for non-student users. Faculty/staff need to add N/A for graduation date, otherwise the sign up process will not work.

1. Click on the link: http://nytimesaccess.com/georgetownuniversitylawlibrary/
2. This will bring you to the portal and fill out the registration form.
3. Each registered user will receive an email notification to acknowledge the registration. Then, s/he will receive another welcome email when their online access is activated. 

If you have a question about the subscription, please contact Oi Ling Yu. If you need help with a technical issue, please contact Smita Parkhe.

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