Loan Periods

Loan periods for most Circulating items - two weeks.  
          40 items may be borrowed by a patron at one time.
          Users must have and present their University ID badge, driver's license or library card
                issued by HSL to checkout materials. Desk staff may allow checkout to faculty
                and students who are regular customers and/or who can verify their identity
                without ID through patron record information such as ID number and month and day of birth.

Books may be renewed up to 10 times or a total of 20 weeks if no holds have been placed upon them.  A hold request will honor the current loan period; further renewal is not allowed.

Items checked out via the campus delivery system will have loan periods extended to allow time to send out and return materials.

Journals from the 2nd floor circulate for two weeks to UCD AMC faculty and students.

Loan periods for Reserve items vary, the items are kept behind the Service Desk.  These items can all be renewed unless there is someone waiting for them to be returned.

     books, videos, and DVDs check out for two hours
     audiovisual equipment such as laptops, white erase markers, and headphones check out for 4 hours.
     Library copies of reserve items check out overnight after eight PM.  They are due two hours after the
           library opens. 
     Instructors’ personal copies may not be taken from the library unless the instructor has given
           specific loan instructions

More information about reserves | Information about the student fee-funded "ASAC textbooks" on reserve.

Non-Circulating items, such as Reference materials from of the 1st floor reference collection
         must be used within the library.

Access to items at the service desk for non-affiliated patrons
Items kept behind the customer service desk requested by a nonaffiliated patron who does not have a card, an application for a restricted card can be requested and filled out.  This restricted card allows reserve items and audio visual items to be checked out and used within the library.  This card does not allow the holder to take any materials out of the library.