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Services for Law Faculty: Loan Periods, Renewals and Recalls

Terri Geiger (x3-8881), Head of Access Services, organizes and supervises library circulation services. Rebecca Martin (x3-8879), the Faculty Liaison, provides document delivery and other circulation services to law faculty.

Law Library * Other B.U. Libraries * Records and Privacy * Materials not at B.U.

Law faculty may borrow items in the law treatise collections for an initial loan period of one year.  Reserve materials and materials marked Limited Circulation, Library Use Only, or Non-Circulating may be borrowed by law faculty for a two week period.  These include journals, looseleaf services, reference materials, and primary sources.

Materials in the law collections are automatically renewed by the Faculty Liaison.  Faculty may also renew their own materials through the use of My Library on the library catalog.   To renew material beyond five years or ten weeks (initial loan + 4 renewals), return the material to the Pappas circulation desk to be checked in and then checked out again to your record. 

If you receive a recall notice for law materials and you need the material beyond the new due date, please contact Rebecca to make arrangements for continued use. 

Other B.U. Libraries

General circulation materials from other B.U. libraries circulate for an initial loan period of 3 months.  Non-circulating and reserve materials from other B.U. libraries can generally be obtained by library staff for 24 hour use by faculty. 

Notices of upcoming due dates from other B.U. libraries may be forwarded to Rebecca to request renewals.  She will request a brief return of materials which have been borrowed for more than 9 months (initial loan + 2 renewals) in order to check the material in and then check it out again to your record.

If you receive a recall notice for non-law materials and you need the material beyond the new due date, please return the material by the due date and forward the notice to Rebecca to obtain a replacement copy.

Please note: The law library does not fine law faculty but other B.U. libraries do.  Overdue or recalled materials from other B.U. libraries should be returned promptly.  Faculty will incur fines and may be blocked from future borrowing at the lending library for failure to return materials by their due dates. 

Borrowing Records and Privacy

Statements of all materials currently checked out are emailed to each faculty member once a year.  A printed copy of your current circulation record may be obtained at any time by contacting Rebecca (x3-8879).

The library does not maintain records of materials you have returned.  Once materials are returned all records are cleared from the system.  For materials you currently have checked out on the library's online circulation system, only you and library staff members have access to the record.  The faculty have made an exception for inquiries from other law faculty.  If a law faculty colleague has material you have requested, full-time staff have been authorized to give you this professor's name.

Materials not Available at Boston University

Rebecca (x3-8879) coordinates interlibrary loan for faculty to obtain books and copies from libraries outside BU.