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Consortium Loan Service:
Borrowing and Lending among WRLC Libraries
The Consortium Loan Service (CLS) provides eligible borrowers
with materials not available at the Catholic University libraries. See WRLC Borrowing Policies for circulation details.
- Patrons with CUA undergraduate, graduate, faculty, faculty
associate, and staff privileges may use CLS.
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- Circulating books not owned by CUA. The books must display
the
status Available in the WRLC Libraries Catalog.
- Articles from journals and reference books not owned by
CUA. The
articles must be less than 50 pages.
- Books and journals owned by CUA that are shelved at
the WRLC Center or are missing, lost, or charged.
- Please note: Requests from CUA patrons for CUA items
will not be processed.
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- Click on myALADIN
on
the library home page.
- Type your Patron ID and Last Name.
- Go to Patron Information and E-mail Registration and click
on Edit.
- Select CLS Requests and Web Document Delivery
and click on Update.
- Go back to the Patron Information and E-mail Registration
page. Type
your e-mail address in the text box (Make sure that Web delivery is not
disabled.) and click on Update E-mail.
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- Search for your item (book or journal) in the WRLC
Libraries Catalog (http://www.aladin.wrlc.org).
- Click on the title that is owned by a library other than
CUA and confirm that the item is available or that the volume is owned.
- Click on the Request button at the top of the
screen and enter the barcode from your Cardinal Card (student ID).
Enter your last name and click on Login.
- Verify that the Library for Pickup is Catholic U. -
Mullen Library.
- Complete the form as directed. For articles fill in the Vol/Issue/Date,
Article Title/Author, and Article Pages
fields.
- Enter your Patron ID and click on Submit Request.
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- You will be notified by e-mail if the item requested is
eligible
or ineligible for CLS. Requests for ineligible items are cancelled.
- You also may check the status of a request in myALADIN
30 to 45 minutes after you submit the request. Go to Consortium Loan
Services Activity and click on View.
- When a request is ready you will be notified by e-mail or
phone.
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- Consortium loan requests usually take three to five
business days,
but they may take longer. Please plan ahead.
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- Books are delivered to the Circulation Desk of Mullen
Library and held for ten days.
- Articles are sent via Web delivery. To download or print
them, go to the Consortium
Loan
Services Activity section of myALADIN.
To retrieve articles click on View, next to Web Document
Delivery.
- Articles that do not copy well may be sent in print to
Mullen Library, where they are held for ten days.
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- Yes, you may renew CLS material through myALADIN,
under the WRLC Libraries Activity section.
- Click on George Mason and Georgetown to
renew items from those libraries.
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American University
(AU)
Catholic University (CU)
Gallaudet University
(GA)
George Mason University
(GM)
Georgetown University
(GT)
George Washington
University (GW)
Marymount University
(MU)
Trinity College (TR)
University of the
District of Columbia (DC)
WRLC Center (WR)
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Call 202-319-5060, fill out the Contact Form, or stop
by the
Circulation Desk in Mullen Library.
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