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Media/Reserve Borrowing Privileges & Loan Periods


Media

Borrowing Procedure: All Items must be properly charged out.

Reserve Access: Items on reserve for a course are available only to current Fairfield University students and professors. Professors needing to use an item on reserve for another professor's course must ask the Reserve staff to contact the professor for permission.

Item Limits: Patrons may borrow any combination of media items, but in each category, up to: 3 music or spoken word CDs, 3 audiocassette tapes, 2 video recordings (DVDs/video cassette tapes), 2 reserve items, 1 kit, 1 floppy disk, and 2 multimedia CD-ROMs or DVD-ROMs.

Renewals: All materials except "Reserve" items may be renewed once.

Please see the chart below for details.

Media/Reserves Borrowing Privileges & Loan Periods Table*:

Note: Feature films are marked with purple tape on the spine.

Material

Fairfield University Students

Faculty & Staff

Other

Fines

CD, music

7 days (3 max)

7 days

non-circ

.05/day

CD, spoken word

28 days

28 days

non-circ

.05/day

CD-ROM

28 days

28 days

28 days*

.05/day

DVD, Feature Film 

7 days

7 days

non-circ

1.00/day

DVD, Educational

7 days

7 days

4 hrs in Lib

1.00/day

DVD-ROM, computer

28 days

28 days

non-circ

.05/day

Equipment

4 hrs in Library

4 hrs in Lib

4 hrs in Lib

.05/day

Floppy Disk

28 days

28 days

28 days*

.05/day

Kit

28 days

28 days

non-circ

.05/day

Microforms

in Lib use

in Lib use

in Lib use

N/A

Reserve, in house

4 hrs in Lib (2 max)

4 hrs in Lib

non-circ

.20/hr

Reserve, overnight

overnight (2 max)
Due at 10:30 a.m.

overnight

non-circ

.20/hr

Reserve, 3 day

3 days (2 max)
Due at 10:30 a.m.

3 days

non-circ

.20/hr

Reserve, 7 day

7 days (2 max)
Due at 10:30 a.m.

7 days

non-circ

.20/hr

Video, Feature Film

7 days

7 days

non-circ

1.00/day

Video, Educational

7 days

7 days

4 hrs in Lib

1.00/day

*Fairfield Prep students & Guest card carriers fall within the "Other" column.
* Fairfield Prep faculty fall within the "Faculty & Staff" column.
* Adjunct faculty fall within the "Faculty & Staff" column.
* A longer circulation period may be granted to Fairfield University faculty members upon request.
* Guest may have these if it goes with the book. There will be a sticker on the front of the book to indicate that.

For consideration of a special borrowing request, please contact the Reference and Media Librarian, Philip Bahr
at (203) 254-4206.