Campus Access for Visitors
All visitors are required to use a self check-in kiosk to register their visits and wear visitor badges at all times during their time on campus. It is important to note that E.B. Williams Law Library operates under a separate access policy and procedure. Staff, faculty, students, and contractors with a Georgetown NetID will continue to access all Law Center buildings using their GOCards.
Visitors Check-In locations:
- McDonough Hall 2nd Street entrance
- Hotung Building Eleanor Holmes Norton Green entrance
- 500 First Street front entrance
- 125 E St. front entrance (McCourt School of Public Policy)
Ways to check in:
- Register in advance (recommended)
- Hosts (Georgetown community members) can pre-register visitors for easy sign in via this form.
- Your visitor(s) will receive a QR code for easy scan and sign in upon arrival.
- You will receive an email notification when your visitor(s) has arrived.
- Register upon arrival to campus
- Follow the instructions on the touchscreen and be sure to write your name exactly as it is listed on your ID. Please be ready to present your ID to the officer for verification.
Watch the Video Showing the Check-In Process
Frequently Asked Questions
At a self check-in kiosk, visitors follow these steps to check-in:
- Step 1: On the Welcome page, select SIGN IN.
- Step 2: On the Choice page, select one of the four choices that matches the purpose of your visit:
- Visitor with Appointment
- Walk-In Visitor
- Contractor
- Reprint Badge
- Step 3: On the About You page, enter your email address, name, and company.
- Step 4: On the Destinations page, type in your destination and estimated departure time and click NEXT.
- Step 5: Retrieve your visitor badge from the printer and present it with a photo identification to the security officer at the desk before proceeding to your destination.
No, event and conference attendees, including members of the media, are not required to use a check-in kiosk. They should proceed to the designated event check-in table. Please contact the event host for check-in instructions.
No, guests to the E.B. Williams Law Library must go through a separate check-in process at the library’s security desk. The procedure is in place to maintain the library’s restricted access, ensuring that only authorized users can enter. For more information regarding who is eligible to use the library, visit https://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/who-may-use/
To avoid bottlenecks at the self check-in kiosks, we have established a pre-registration process for group visitors. Hosts can initiate the process so that guests can complete their registration beforehand and simply scan their QR codes at one of the kiosks when they arrive, saving time and minimizing contact with the iPad kiosk.
If you are a Law Center staff or faculty member hosting a group of more than five external visitors, please submit a request through the Pre-Registration Setup for Georgetown Law Visitors form to set up group invitation and pre-registration at least one week prior to the visit date.
The pre-registration process eliminates the need for visitors to input their information at a kiosk. Here is a summary of the process:
- The Law Center host initiates guest pre-registration by submitting a request through the Pre-Registration Setup for Georgetown Law Visitors form. This action automatically generates a Service Desk ticket within the system.
- An IST technician then assigns the ticket to a system administrator of the Sign-In Enterprise (SIE) application.
- The SIE administrator proceeds to upload the visitor list or directly input visitor details into the system.
- Subsequently, guests receive an email invitation enabling them to pre-register their upcoming visits. Concurrently, the host is notified through email whenever a guest completes their registration.
- Upon completion of pre-registration, guests will receive a personalized QR code specific to their visit.
- When guests arrive, they can scan their QR codes at a check-in kiosk, which subsequently prints their day stickers.
Multi-day guests have two options for checking in using the kiosk. They can either pre-register and utilize a QR code for check-in, or they can check-in at the kiosk on a daily basis.
Law Center hosts wishing to pre-register multi-day guests by submitting a request through the Pre-Registration Setup for Georgetown Law Visitors form to set up the pre-registration at least one week prior to the visit date. It’s important to keep in mind that the visitor badges provided to multi-day guests are stickers with limited durability. As a result, guests will require a new sticker for each day of their visit. Regardless of the chosen option, guests will need to use a kiosk each day to print a new badge. The badge will prominently display the estimated departure time for that particular day.
Visitors can easily print a replacement badge by using a check-in kiosk. On the Welcome page, select SIGN IN and then proceed to the Selection page where the Reprint Badge option is available.
Absolutely. To locate Law Center buildings, you can utilize the campus locator tool. Simply open the campus locator, enter the name of the building in the search field located in the upper left corner of the screen, and click Search. The tool will display the Law Center buildings on the map. Alternatively, you can use this direct link to the Law Center campus.
Here are the three Law Center buildings equipped with self check-in kiosks:
- Bernard P. McDonough Hall (2nd Street entrance)
- Eric E. Hotung International Law Building (Eleanor Holmes Norton Green entrance)
- 500 1st St NW (main entrance)