March 2, 2004 issue

Eagle Express Delivery Service

Need a book or article from the Washington College of Law? Until recently that meant you had to walk downhill to Spring Valley to check it out yourself.

WCL faculty and students, you no longer have to trek uphill to get resources from Bender Library.

Eagle Express, a new service offered this semester, lets any one with an AU ID request items on-line and have them delivered to their AU library. WCL faculty and students can request from 800,000 titles and 3,150 journals at Bender Library and Learning Resources Center, and members of the main campus community have easy access to the more than 116,000 titles and 1,500 journals at the Washington College of Law Library.

The Washington Research Library Consortium shuttle service now travels a daily loop that includes stops at WCL and then the main AU campus. Books will generally be delivered within two working days. Users can speed up the process by checking the catalog of the holding library to verify that the book is available before placing a request.

To place a request from the main campus, go to the library’s Web site www.library.american.edu and select e-forms and services at the upper right, then find the links for interlibrary loans and choose “request a book (or article) from the Washington College of Law.”

To place a request from the Washington College of Law Library, go to the WCL Library Web site at www.library.wcl.american.edu. Select WorldCat at the upper left to search and place interlibrary loan requests for items at Bender Library, just as you would for any other interlibrary loan request.

For more information about this service contact:

• Interlibrary Loans, Bender Library, 885-3282 or ill@american.edu
• Interlibrary Loans, WCL Library, 274-4327 or ill@wcl.american.edu

In addition to this new Eagle Express delivery service, researchers should keep in mind that at both sites they have access to many full-text, on-line law periodicals and documents through the Hein Online database, and they can obtain other full text resources in related fields in the many databases available through the ALADIN system. Users are encouraged to check these resources before requesting an article through interlibrary loan.