Institute faculty and students are entitled to user privileges in the John K. Mullen Library and the Kathryn J. DuFour Law Library of The Catholic University of America. At the beginning of each semester, registered Institute students receive a library bar code at the circulation desk of Mullen Library upon presenting an Institute student ID. The University library system contains more than 1,300,000 journals, books, dissertations, and other research materials. The Theology/Philosophy/Canon Law Library located on the third floor of Mullen Library houses specialized reference materials in the areas of religious studies and philosophy.

As a benefit of CUA’s membership in the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC), students have access to ALADIN, a shared electronic library system serving several universities in the Washington, D.C., area. ALADIN includes the online library catalog as well as article databases, electronic journals, image collections, and Internet resources. Students may access ALADIN databases remotely, i.e., from home or office. Additional databases on CD-ROM are available in the libraries. In addition to the Consortium Loan Service, which allows students to borrow volumes from other universities in the WRLC via a courier service, interlibrary loan from non-WRLC-member schools is available, and requests for both loan services may be submitted to the Access Services desk via the Mullen Library website. All faculty and students are invited to take advantage of group and individual instruction in the use of electronic library resources at Mullen Library.

Mullen Library has a number of computer stations located throughout the building that are available for research and internet use.  In addition, Dell PC and Macintosh iBook laptops can be checked out from the Circulation Desk for use inside the library. The laptops have word-processing capability and are connected to Mullen’s wireless network.  Students who own a laptop may check out a wireless network card from the Circulation Desk for access to the network. Further information about the wireless network is available at: http://libraries.cua.edu/access/wireless.html.

Students may purchase a photocopy card for use with the Mullen photocopying machines on the second floor.