Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery

Obtain material from the Burns Law Library collection

• Submit a request to have books sent to your mailbox or receive a scan of book excerpts and database articles via the interlibrary loan system.  
• Faculty can choose to send an email to docservices@law.gwu.edu instead of using the ILL system.  
  • Using the ILL system is preferred.  If a request cannot be fulfilled from the Burns collection, library staff will initiate an ILL transaction to borrow the item from another library. 
  • When sending an email, be sure to provide full bibliographic details:  book title and author, chapter information, publication year, and the first and last page numbers.
• Copyright policy and restrictions apply to all requests. 
• Scans will be emailed to your @law.gwu.edu address.
• Generally, scans will be provided within 24 hours of receipt of a request; scans may take longer based on staffing, busy periods and closures. The office is not open weekends or holidays.  
• All faculty must pick up interlibrary loans from the circulation desk.

Contact the staff at docservices@law.gwu.edu