UPDATE: Starting Monday, Jan 31st 2022 access to the Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons physical spaces for Alumni and Guest Borrows will resume. Alumni and Guest Borrows are welcome to access the Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons physical spaces between 7:30 am - 6pm, Monday- Friday. Late-evening and weekend access will continue be reserved exclusively for current SU students, faculty, and staff, with a valid SU Campus Card.
If you have any questions please contact the Lemieux Library Circulation Desk at 206-296-6233 or email libcirc@seattleu.edu. Please allow up to 1-2 business days for a reply.
We are pleased to offer a variety of library services to Seattle University alumni. These services include: borrowing Lemieux library books, journals, and media, access to Special Collections, and basic research assistance. An Alumni Borrowing Account does not give borrowers access to licensed online resources (ebooks, articles, databases, streaming audio and video, etc.).
Request an Alumni Borrowing Account
Any Student, Faculty, or Staff from another Alliance Member Library is entitled to the same rights when they walk into a library as they are when they are at their home Library. However they must be verified.
Patrons requesting visiting patron privileges and or requests to pick up at a different member Library must physically visit the library in person in order to be verified.
Patrons will need to bring their ID (University, College, State Issued) and must be able to log in to their Library account.
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In order to maintain our reciprocal on-site borrowing program, staff at each Alliance library will need to verify that the visiting patron is a current student, faculty, or staff at a Summit library, and then enter a patron record for the visiting patron into their own patron databases. We call this "adopting" each other's Summit-eligible patrons.
Calling other libraries to verify patrons is difficult given the various hours of operation, levels of library staff working Circulation desks, busy phone lines, etc. This "workaround" is an efficient way for Alliance libraries to determine eligibility for Visiting Patron service: we will ask the visiting patron to log into their home library accounts at the circulation desk, and from there the staff member can see the patron's address on record, the patron's User Group, and the patron record's expiration date.
Lemieux Sponsored Guest accounts can be created for volunteers, members of visiting programs or conferences, and groups with which the library has a reciprocal agreement. Arrangements must be made in advance, please contact the Lemieux Library Circulation Desk at 206-296-6233 or email libcirc@seattleu.edu to request a guest account.
Alumni can check out up to six items at any time from the general collection. No renewals are allowed.
Lemieux Sponsored Guest accounts can be created for volunteers, members of visiting programs or conferences, and groups with which the library has a reciprocal agreement. Arrangements must be made in advance and approved by the Circulation Manager, Aaron Morgan. Further approval from Library Administration may be necessary.
Contact libcirc@seattleu.edu and receive a response within 24-48 hours.
Visit the Alumni Office to learn about other benefits, events, and professional development opportunities for SU alumni.
