Welcome to Loyola! This guide will introduce you to library resources and services that will assist you as you start your graduate work in the Department of English.

Contact us for research help, book requests, instruction assistance, or library service questions. We're here to help you succeed in your research, and are happy to meet with you to discuss your work and recommend:

• Search strategies in the library catalog;

• Subject-specific databases;

• Locating materials at other libraries and requesting them using interlibrary loan; and

• Primary-source research at local research libraries.

• University Libraries Website

• Library Catalog Search

• Interlibrary Loan

• English Journals

• Request a Research Appointment

• Reserve a Study Room

• Research Help Chat

• Services for Graduate Students

Use these forms to register as a proxy user for a faculty member.  Proxy user status allows you to request or check out materials on behalf of a professor with whom you are working.  The items you request or check out for them goes on their library account, not yours.