Please note that interlibrary loan requests for physical deliveries need to be received by Dec. 5 for processing before the winter holidays. Requests for scans (articles) will be processed until Dec. 19. Requests received after these dates will be processed in the new year. Services return to normal on Jan. 5.
LEO deliveries to academic departments end Dec. 19 and resume Jan. 5, 2026. Deliveries to Library locations remain on a normal schedule until the holiday break. Please note all locations are closed from Dec. 24 to Jan. 1.
What we do: Access Services enables faculty, staff, and student access to materials by facilitating loaning and borrowing between institutions, and delivering library materials to libraries, departments, and distance and continuing education students.
Our work includes:
- Interlibrary Loan: borrowing, which borrows items not owned by the Library;
- Library Express On-Grounds (LEO), a service for faculty and graduate students that delivers books, journals, and DVDs to departments on Grounds;
- Instructional Scanning (ISS), which digitizes course related materials for inclusion in UVACanvas sites as additional readings;
- School of Continuing and Professional Studies/Distance Education Delivery, a service which mails Library materials to SCPS and Distance Education students who live outside the Charlottesville/Albemarle County area;
- Lending to other libraries when our collection contains books that other institutions would like access to.
- Notice to Health Science Library users: The HSL Interlibrary Loan system operates separately from the UVA Library system. Please enter the ILLiad system here. If you need assistance, please contact the Health Science Library at (434) 924-5444.
Learn how to use Interlibrary loan and LEO Delivery with our step-by-step tutorial.