To establish the right to Library services, particularly to borrow Library materials, the prospective user is responsible to provide adequate identification establishing both individual identity and relationship to the University or Library.

Initial Registration:
Students: those who bring a current, picture student ID will be registered immediately. If a student has not been issued a student ID, but can show proof of registration (i.e. a paid bill or a class list) and picture ID, Library staff will register the student by issuing a (temporary) Special Borrower card with barcode, entering the borrowing privileges into the online system as student borrowing privileges.

Faculty/staff: those who bring a faculty/staff ID card will be registered immediately using that card. In the absence of a faculty/staff ID, other proof of faculty or staff status may be accepted and a picture ID is required. Special borrower cards are issued in such cases with faculty/staff privileges entered into the online system.

Special borrowers: picture ID, recognizable to staff as valid identification, is required in addition to a recognizable document or card establishing entitlement to special borrower privileges (see Library Guideline 256).

ID of registered borrowers:

Once registered, borrowers should present their barcoded ID for all Library charge out of materials and lockers. In the absence of that ID, staff will normally accept an alternative picture ID when the user can also correctly recite his or her social security number.

Responsibility to safeguard ID:

Because borrowers are individually responsible for the return of materials they borrow from the Library (see Library Guideline 251), borrowers should carefully safeguard cards establishing borrowing privileges. Users should immediately report to the Library loss of a borrowing card so staff can invalidate its barcode. Failure to properly notify the Library may result in assessment of responsibility and financial liability for subsequent loans contracted to that borrower barcode.

previously implemented guideline, statement approved 10/19/92 , rev. 9/27/01