Libraries to Go: A Document Delivery Service for Faculty



Utilizing student couriers, we will deliver books from any ULS libraries to any Pitt faculty members office within the prescribed boundaries of the Pittsburgh campus.

This service is extended to all faculty members with offices on the Pittsburgh campus, including the faculties of Law and the Health Sciences. Before explaining the service, we want to thank Provost Jim Maher for providing the support necessary for us to mount this new service.

Here is how it works:

Requests can be made for books and for copies of journal articles located in all Pittsburgh Campus libraries, including Health Sciences and Law. Books will be delivered to Oakland Campus offices or to Pittsburgh Campus ULS libraries. Journal articles will only be delivered electronically.

You can expect delivery within 1-2 business days after placing the request. Materials from other campuses, the Health Sciences and Law libraries, or offsite storage may take slightly longer.

Faculty members may designate a graduate student or staff member as their proxy to receive the material. In case you are not available for delivery, consider designating someone as your proxy using the Libraries To Go Proxy Request Form (PDF) . The proxy agreement must be renewed each term. A signature is required for all deliveries. For privacy and accountability reasons, no one who is not specifically authorized as a proxy may sign for deliveries.Please be aware that the faculty member is responsible for all materials charged to their library account.

Faculty whose records are blocked due to suspension of circulation privileges will not be able to place requests. For information on charge and fine limits, please see the ULS Borrowing Policies. UPMC faculty not affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh cannot place ULS document delivery requests and should use HSLS Document Delivery. Couriers
cannot return books to the library for faculty.

How to Request an Item

To place a request for an item, you need to be viewing the brief or long record which displays the bibliographic information for the individual item you want in PITTCat.

  • Search for the item in PITTCat

  • Display the Brief or Long Record for the individual item
  • Click on the gold Requests button at the top or bottom of the page
  • If you have not previously logged in, the Patron Login form will appear
  • Enter your University ID number (the number on the front of your PITT ID) and your Last Name in the appropriate fields and click the Login button
  • Once you have done this, or if you were already logged in, you will see a Requests Menu listing the types of requests
  • Select the appropriate option from the pull down menu

    • to borrow books
    • to get copies of articles from journals
    • to request books located in Storage
    • to request articles from journals located in Storage
    • to request a book that is checked out

  • Click the OK button
  • Follow the instructions on the request form and fill in all pertinent information
  • Re-enter your University ID Number
  • When you are done, click on the Submit Request button
Book Requests

You can request delivery of books located in any Pittsburgh Campus ULS library, branch campus library, or the Law or Health Sciences
libraries.

Books can be delivered to any Oakland Campus office or ULS library.

To facilitate delivery, please provide building name and room number. Requested material is delivered on a daily basis, except on weekends or holidays. Delivery to an office will be attempted once. After that, you will have to pick the book up at the nearest ULS Library. If you selected a library as your delivery location, the book(s) will be held there for seven days.

There are no charges for these services. You can check the status of book requests by looking at the Request Information section of My Library Record.

All books must be returned to any Pittsburgh Campus ULS library.

Journal Article Requests

University of Pittsburgh faculty may request free copies of journal
articles that appear in journals located in ULS Libraries or the
Health Sciences or Law Libraries.

For journals located in storage, use the Journals in Storage Request.

Journal articles will be scanned and made available to you in PDF format. You will be notified of availability by email, but no information about article requests will appear in My Library Record.

You will receive an email entitled "Automated Document Delivery Notification".

In the email there will be a link and a PIN (Personal Identification Number). Clicking on the link will take you to a login page. On the login page, enter the email address you supplied on your request and the PIN number from the email and click on the LOGIN button. This will take you to a page with a link to your request. Click on the link and the document will open up in Adobe Acrobat Reader for you to read or print. If you don't have Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can download it for free from Download Adobe Acrobat

For Assistance with any document delivery questions, please email libs2go@library.pitt.edu.