Faculty
Services
Circulation
Fines and Fees
Book and Audio-Visual Reserve Policy
Electronic and Print Copy Reserve Policy
Borrowing
Slides
Information Literacy
Instruction
Circulation
ALL material and equipment leaving the library
must be checked-out at the circulation desk. Material
should be returned to the circulation desk during open
library hours. A book drop located outside the library
is available for after hour book returns only.
All
instructional media and slides must be returned to the circulation
desk.
Loan Periods
- Books
- 56 days
May be renewed the first time for an additional 56
days and renewed a
second time for 14 days.
- Audio
Visual, Professional Collection and Back Periodicals
- 14 days
May be renewed 2 times for an additional 14 days each
time.
- Current
Periodicals, Reference, Special and Archival Collections DO NOT CIRCULATE
- Laptop Computers
- 7 hours
- Digital Cameras
(still and video) - 24 hours with the exception of Friday. Cameras must be returned to the library by 8:15 PM on Friday. No weekend loan periods.
May NOT be renewed.
- Other Instructional Media
- 6 hours
- Slides
- Semester
May be signed out for the semester or until there
is another request for them.
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Fines
and Fees
- First
Overdue Notice
An
overdue notice will be sent when print items become seven
days overdue. There will be no charges at this time.
- Second
Overdue Notice
If the print item becomes 30 days overdue a second notice
will be sent; at which time the item will begin to
incur a $0.50 a day overdue fine. Audio-visual
material will incure a $1.00 a day fine after becoming
7 days overdue.
- Third
Overdue Notice
If there is no response from the second notice, after
14 more days, you will be charged with the cost of
replacing the print material in addition to any fines incurred
and applicable processing fees.
- SEE INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA FOR EQUIPMENT FINES & FEES
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Reserve Policy
To
support the academic programs of Pennsylvania College
of Art and Design, the library provides the maintenance
and distribution of reserve resources. To manage the
organization and circulation of reserve materials, the
following policies have been developed:
Guidelines
- A
reserve form must be completed each semester material
is placed on reserve. A separate form must be completed
for each course.
- Three days are required to process reserve books.
- Two weeks are required to process electronic reserves.
Books and Audio-Visual Reserves
- Books
owned by the college library may be placed on reserve
for one academic semester. Unless otherwise notified,
reserve books will be returned to the regular collection
at the end of each academic semester.
- Due
to space limitations, only five books per course may
be on the reserve shelf at any time.
- After
receiving the reserve form, the staff will retrieve
the books from the collection. If a book is checked-out,
attempts will be made to retrieve it, but there is
no guarantee it will be returned in a timely manner. Three days are required to process reserve books.
- Personal
books may be placed on reserve for one academic semester.
The five book limitation includes any personal books.
Faculty members are required to pick-up any personal
books at the end of the semester. Personal books not retreived within 90 days from the end of the semester will become the property of the PCA&D Library.
- In
processing personal books, reserve labels, a label
with the instructor’s name, a bar code label
and other identifying notations will be affixed to
the book.
- The
library will not be responsible for any damage to
or loss of a personal book placed on reserve.
- Reserved
books may be checked-out overnight. They must be checked-out
after 3:00 PM and returned before 9:00 AM the following
day. In some cases a faculty member may request that a reserved book be restricted to library use only.
- A
limit of one reserve book may be checked-out to an
individual at any given time.
- A
$1.00 a day fine will be charged to any overdue reserve
books.
- Faculty
Request for Book and Audio-Visual Reserves
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Electronic and Print Copy Reserves
-
Materials placed on electronic / copy reserve must be in compliance
with the Fair Use Copyright Law. To find out more
about the statute, you may go to one of the following
Internet sites:
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
or
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html
- If
an instructor requests electronic and/or print copy materials that do not
comply with the fair use guidelines, the instructor
must obtain copyright permission before doing so.
Permission may be requested by writing the author
or publisher of the work, or by contacting the Copyright
Clearance Center, 27 Congress Street, Salem, MA 01970.
There may be fees involved. The library is not responsible
for any fees in acquiring copyright permission.
- Each
reserve must include the following
information:
a full bibliographic citation in Modern Language Association
(MLA) format, instructor’s name, day and time
of class period and class title.
- All electronic / copy reserve requests are subject to library director approval. Two weeks are required to process electronic reserves.
- Electronic reserves may be active for one academic semester. At the end of the semester all electronic reserves will be transferred to an innactive file.
- Faculty
Request for Electronic and Print Copy Reserves
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Borrowing Slides
The
library slide collection is for the use of faculty for
lectures and classroom instruction. Slide projectors
and trays, as well as slides, are available for borrowing
from the library. The following outlines the procedure
for checking-out both:
Slide
Check-out
- It
is strongly suggested that you check-out slides two
weeks prior to the time you need them. This will ensure
that the images are available.
-
When choosing slides, place them in an empty 8x10
slide sleeve. The numbered,
plastic hanging files in the drawers MUST REMAIN in
the files.
-
Photo copy the sheet(s) of slides you are borrowing
at 90%. Be sure to copy the side that identifies what
the slide is. Check
the copies and make sure each slide is labeled or
identified. If the slides are not,
please recopy or handwrite any necessary information.
-
On the copy sheet, PRINT
CLEARLY your name and the date. Give
this to the librarian. It is a good idea to make a
second copy for your records.
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Information Literacy
Instruction
Consult
with the library
director to schedule class information literacy instruction. Instructors will be asked to complete
an online Faculty Information Literacy Instruction form, which can be found on the library website under the Services / Forms tab (or the link below), at least
two weeks prior to the scheduled time. In addition
your students may be asked to complete a pre-instruction
assessment survey as well as a post-instruction assessment
survey. Statistical information gathered from the surveys
will be used to make further improvements to the instruction
content. During the consultation with the library
director, an instructor should be prepared to address
and discuss a course assignment which emphasizes specific
information resources. The library director will work
with you to gear the instruction toward the goals or
objectives of the assignment.
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Pennsylvania
College of Art and Design Library will periodically
and randomly conduct assessment surveys of services
provided. Surveys will be presented to all users of
the library including faculty, students and staff. Survey
results are analyzed and evaluated to improve the quality
and type of service provided by the library.
Library website updated September 2008 |
