Borrowing from the Library by institutional members

Who may borrow?

The University of Adelaide Library offers membership to local libraries and organisations for an annual fee. Eligible institutions include commercial institutions, State, Commonwealth and Local Government departments and instrumentalities, recognised post-secondary education institutions, and certain non-profit organisations.

Annual Institutional membership costs $220 and members are entitled to borrow up to 100 items per year.

Please note: you are responsible for all items you borrow; you will have to pay for the cost of replacement, plus a non-refundable handling fee of $30.00, of items that are lost or damaged while they are on loan to you.

Library Card

Institutional members are issued with a Library Card. You will need to bring this Card with you when you use the Library.
If you lose your Library Card, report the loss immediately to Service Enquiries (telephone number 8303 5124). Any loans made with it before it is reported lost will be your responsibility.
Lost Library Cards may be replaced at a cost of $22.00 [includes GST].

What may be borrowed?

Institutional members may have on loan up to 20 items at a time from the Main collection of the Barr Smith Library.
Special conditions apply at the Elder Music, Law, Waite and Roseworthy Campus Libraries; please ask at the branch libraries for full details.

Services

Access to most licensed electronic resources is available via public access terminals throughout the Library. Remote access to electronic resources is not possible.

Restrictions

As well as course work items, there are other categories of material that may not be borrowed. They include material from the Reference collection, the bound and unbound journals, newspapers, items from the audiovisual collection, and microforms.
Institutional members may not use student computers.

Loan period

Books may be borrowed for 4 weeks. You may renew a loan up to 4 times as long as no-one is waiting for the book.

Renewing a loan

You may renew the loan of a book from MyLibrary on or before the due date.

A loan may not be renewed if another user is waiting for the book or if you have already renewed it for the maximum number of renewals allowed.

An item on loan to you may be recalled if it is urgently required by another user. The loan period will be reduced to seven days and you will be notified of the new due date by email.

Demerit points

Demerit points are allocated when items are not returned by the due date, at a rate of 2 points per day (or part of a day).

If you acccumulate 200 demerit points your borrowing privileges are withdrawn for 14 days. You can check how many demerit points you have accumulated by using the MyLibrary option on the Library Catalogue.

Please talk to a staff member at Service Enquiries (telephone 8313 5124) if you have a question about demerit points.

More information?

Full details of charges and eligibility, and application forms, are available from Service Enquiries on Level 3 of the Barr Smith Library.

• Telephone number 8313 5124
• Fax: 8313 4973
• E-mail: library-services@adelaide.edu.au.