Save Time, Ask a Librarian

If an item is not yet in our collections, you can suggest a purchase.

Use our online forms to request a book or a film. If the suggestion respects our collection development policies, we will order it for free without prior confirmation. If the request is denied, we will inform you by email.

To request a book, you need to sign in with your Switch edu-ID account. If you do not have a Switch edu-ID account yet, please follow this procedure to register for our library network.

The time it takes to obtain a purchase varies greatly, between 3 and 5 days for an ebook, 4 and 6 weeks for a paper one, also depending on the publisher and the supplier.

If it is an emergency, please indicate a due date in the online form and we will do our best to get it in time.

But other options exist to save time:

• checking if another library in Geneva has the document
• asking for an interlibrary loan and document delivery

When the document is ready to be borrowed, it will be reserved under your name at the loan desk for 10 days.