General Guidelines:

• Reference material check-out is limited to faculty and graduate students
• Normal check-out is for 48 hours, but with the Librarian’s discretion, may be extended to up to five working days plus the weekend
• Patrons may renew materials with Librarian approval, but must bring the item(s) back to Library to do this (no online or phone renewals)
• Librarians may deny check-out if the material is a high-use  or high-need item
• Fines for overdue Reference materials are $5/day

Procedures:

• A Reference Librarian (or other librarian with desk-duty) fills out a “Reference Special Permission” form (currently pink and located in the “Reference Material Check-Out” folder in the file drawer at the Reference Desk)
• The patron takes the book and slip to the Circulation Desk, and a Circulation staff member does an override in ALEPH to manually adjust the due date, then the material is checked out to the patron
• The item is desensitized as usual (no special security desk alert necessary)
• Items are returned to the Circulation Desk and checked in there, re-sensitized,  then handled like any other Reference item