Access Services

Branch Operations Services runs the daily operations of the Art, Built Environments, Drama, Engineering, Foster Business, Math Research, Music, and Tateuchi East Asia Libraries. We can answer your questions about the libraries and its services, as well as help you find and check out materials, place requests, use library equipment, and reserve rooms.

Central Circulation Services helps you locate and retrieve library materials in the Suzzallo & Allen Stacks, off-site storage, Government Publications, and Media collections. Our public desk is on the first floor of Suzzallo Library, and this is where you can check out and return books, pick up your requested items, and ask questions about loans and library policies.

Interlibrary Loan & Scanning Services serves the UW community on all three campuses for free by working with libraries around the world to obtain print or electronic materials for users when the UW Libraries doesn’t have what you need. We also serve the greater  research community by providing scanning services to non-UW users including Cascadia, UW alumni, businesses, and non-affiliated individuals for a fee. We also provide interlibrary loan services to libraries, archives, museums, and government agencies. 

Library Account Services issues, renews, and manages library accounts for the University of Washington community, as well as off-campus borrowers, across all three campuses. Library Account Services is also responsible for collecting payments for library charges, notifying library borrowers of charges and sanctions, overseeing the UW Libraries appeals process for library charges, and issuing and renewing study carrels and spaces.