Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC)

For faculty, students, and staff of Georgetown University

What is the WRLC?

The Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC) is a regional resource-sharing organization comprised of eight universities in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area to expand and enhance the information resources available to their faculty, students, and staff.

Who is eligible?

The Georgetown University faculty, students, and staff are welcome to use the libraries in the WRLC. This can be done by either visiting the libraries in person or browsing the catalog on the web.

The WRLC catalog is a shared resource that can be used to search for material simultaneously in all libraries of the WRLC, or can be narrowed to search one specific library for the holdings of a particular title. When a book is found in the catalog and is listed as available, it can be:

• borrowed in person at the library that owns the item by using your Georgetown University GOCard.
• requested online to be held at the library that owns the material to be picked up by the requester
• requested to be delivered through the Consortium Loan Service (CLS) to any of the libraries in the consortium to be picked up by the requester.

If another library in the WRLC has a journal title that is not owned by Georgetown University, articles may be requested through the WRLC catalog and either:

• sent via web delivery directly to your email (providing your email address is in your myALADIN account)
• photocopied and sent to any library in the WRLC to be picked up by the requester.

Material requested through the WRLC is expedited over regular ILL requests as part of the agreement between all the libraries. You may track the progress of your request by using myALADIN.

General WRLC borrowing policies

Full borrowing policies and eligibility guidelines can be found at http://www.wrlc.org/resource/borrowing/. It is the responsibility of the patron to adhere to each institution's policies to maintain borrowing eligibility.

What if the material I need is not in the WRLC catalog?

If you cannot find the material you require through any of the WRLC libraries, submit a request to Interlibrary Loan and they will try to obtain the item(s) for you from other institutions that own the material.

Also, faculty members may borrow directly through OCLC library reciprocal agreements.

Graduate students and postdoctoral/visiting researchers may borrow directly at participating libraries in the CIRLA consortium.

Last Updated: 06/12/07