Student Borrowing

Books, Audio Books, Popular Reading Room Books & Trico Books

• Loan Period: 28 days, or 1 semester for seniors
• Renewals: 2

Reference Books 

• Loan period: 1 day
• Not renewable
• Overdue Fines: $1 per day. You will be responsible for the item's replacement cost plus fees after 3 overdue notices.

Course Reserves

Course reserves provide fair and equitable access to course materials for everyone in your class. Borrow responsibly!

general reserves: mccabe & underhill

• Loan period: 
  • Daytime: 3 hours
  • Overnight: from 3 hours before library closing until 9:30am weekdays, noon on weekends
• Not renewable

general reserves: cornell

• Loan period: 2 hours, in library use only
• Renewals: 1 renewal in person at the Circulation Desk, unless the item has been requested by another patron. 

general reserves: videos

• Loan period: 4 hours, in library use only (although there may be some exceptions for items you may check out for 1 day.)
• Not renewable

active honors reserves

• Loan period: items due at 1pm the following day regardless of checkout time
• Renewals:
  • McCabe & Underhill: unlimited renewals by phone or in person at the Reserves Desk, unless the item has been requested by someone else
  • Cornell: one renewal, unless the item has been requested by someone else.

inactive honors reserves

• Loan period: 28 days, or until the end of the semester for seniors.
  • All honors reserves are subject to recall and all become active on April 1 for the benefit of those studying for honors exams.
• Renewals: 2

Laptops, iPads and electronic equipment

Macbooks

• Loan period: 6 hours, in library use only
• Not renewable

chromebooks

• Loan period: 1 week
• Not renewable

ipads (some with keyboards)

• Loan period: 2 days
• Not renewable

chargers, cables, adaptors, laptop locks, headphones & remotes (for use in the viewing rooms on Mccabe level 3)

• Loan period: 6 hours
• Not renewable
• You may purchase earbuds for 75 cents!

Journals: McCabe & Underhill (Cornell journals do not circulate)

Individual issues

• Loan period: 7 days
• One renewal

bound volumes

• Loan period: 28 days
• Two renewals

Multimedia

dvds & video

• Loan period: 7 days (5 item limit)
• One, four-day renewal

cds & lps

• Loan period: 7 days
• 2 renewals

scores

• Loan period: one semester
• One renewal

E-Z Borrow loans

• Loan period: 12 weeks
• Not renewable
• Overdue penalty of $1 per day