International Library Loans

Document Delivery Service (DDS)

From 1 March 2023, members of the University of Luxembourg can use the DDS to submit a request to consult any document that is not in the LLC’s collections or available electronically in the a-z.lu catalogue.

Books are sent by other libraries located abroad and are loaned for a limited period.
Articles and book chapters are provided as PDFs or print copies by other libraries (depending on the applicable copyright and the terms of the lending library).

Check that the document is not available in the LLC via the a-z.lu catalogue.
Log in to your user account.
Click on ILL (international library loan) at the top left of the catalogue home page.
Fill in the request form.
A librarian will process your request as quickly as possible.
You will be informed about the availability of the document by email.

Articles and book chapters are generally provided within 48 hours.

Books are delivered within 1 to 6 weeks (depending on the lending library and how far away it is).

Your request may have to be cancelled if it falls into one of the following categories:

document cannot be found or supplied by another library
document published very recently (this year)
document dating from before 1900
entire volume of a periodical
reference book

Books

Members of staff and students based on Belval Campus can come and pick up their books at the LLC Welcome Zone from Monday to Friday, 8.00 to 17.00.

Members of staff and students based at campuses in Luxembourg City can pick up their books from the Book Taxi lockers.

Sometimes the lending libraries only allow on-site consultation of the loaned book. In this case, users are asked to come to the LLC to consult the book.
Articles or book chapters

Students will either receive their article as a PDF by email or be asked to come and pick up a print copy of the article at the LLC Welcome Zone between 8am and 5pm.

Staff members will receive their article either by email as a PDF or by internal mail as a print copy.