** Library Express will be unavailable from 10 pm on Friday night (July 3) until 3 am Saturday morning (July 4) for system maintenance. **
What is Library Express? Library Express is the UW-Madison's "document delivery" and "interlibrary loan" (ILL) service.
UW-Madison students, staff and faculty may also use Library Express to request books sent by mail, if they're living outside of Dane County. For more information, see Distance Services.
What can be requested?
- Articles scanned from print journals located on campus
- Articles not available in print on campus, or through online subscription
- Books not available in print on campus, or through online subscription
What can NOT be requested?
- More than 50 requests per week
- Books available on campus - instead, use "Place Requests" in MadCat to have these sent to your preferred pick-up library
- Books available at other UW System campuses (ex: UW-Milwaukee) - instead, use "UW System Search" in MadCat and "Place Requests" to have these sent to your preferred pick-up library
- Articles longer than 50 pages from journals that are available in print on campus. However, if the article is not available on-campus, then there is no page limit.
- Articles available in full-text PDF online through library subscriptions - check
- These items are very difficult to borrow from off-campus:
- Audiovisual materials including videos and CDs
- Computer software and manuals
- Genealogical resources
- Materials for class reserve or group use - talk to your Reserves contact about purchasing copies instead
- Rare books
- Recently published books - if rejected, use the "Purchase Recommendation form"
- Reference materials
- Technical reports and standards
- Textbooks
- Whole volumes or issues of periodicals
