Document Delivery Policies

Document Delivery is offered to current GVSU Students, Faculty, Emeritus Faculty, and Staff. GVSU University Libraries will pay up to $20.00 on your behalf for each item requested (this is almost always enough to get the item to you without charge). Please allow 1-2 weeks for delivery of items.

What can I get through Document Delivery?

  • Articles not available online.
  • Books, videos, DVDs, and Theses that GVSU does not own or that are lost.

We cannot borrow the following items through Document Delivery:

  • Textbooks
  • Rare books
  • Complete issues of journals
  • Genealogy

How many requests can I place through Document Delivery?

  • Undergraduate Student: 10 active requests
  • Graduate Student: 20 active requests
  • Faculty & Staff: 30 active requests

Digital Copies and Borrowed Books, Music, DVDs, etc.

  • Digital Copies are available to download for 14 days.
  • You may request 1 renewal from the lending library, and Renewals on borrowed items are done at the discretion of the lending library.
  • Items more than 7 days overdue may not be renewed.
  • If you have items more than 14 days overdue, your account will be blocked.

Page last modified November 5, 2012