Administrative and Support Staff
Admission Policy
All members of the administrative and support staff are welcome to use the library facilities and services. Nonetheless, the library management asks that you please identify yourself adequately when required by library staff.
Loans
Staff patrons wishing to take out materials on loan from library should identify themselves as staff members to the library attendant by showing their staff ID card, also necessary for actual check out process.
- Loan Policies
- Books – General Collection (excluding reference books and limited loan items): 30 days; subject to recall after seven days if another user requests item.
- Reference books: not normally loaned out; if authorized, must be returned on stipulated date.
- Reserve materials (books and other materials kept on Reserve Shelves for the use of students in particular courses): not available for loans to staff, unless enrolled in the class.
- Journals: most current issues are not loaned out; older back issues lent for 7 days; exceptional loans must be returned on stipulated date.
- Newspapers: not normally loaned out; if authorized, must be returned on stipulated date.
- Audiovisual materials (videos, CDs, CD Roms, tapes, slides, ect.): 3 day loans
Photocopy Services
The library offers a photocopy service for copying of library materials. Staff patrons who wish to use this service, please bear in mind that copies will not be made on demand. Requests will normally be returned within a two-hour period (Monday – Friday).
- Maximum number of pages copied per book: 35; one article per journal
Photocopy Service hours: Monday – Friday: 9:00am – 5:30pm
Orders placed after 5:30pm, on weekdays or holidays will be returned after 11:00am following workday.
To order photocopies, ask for and fill out forms available in library office.
- Photocopy fee: No charge will be made to staff for minimum orders; excessive requests, however, may entail a charge. See Library Director.
Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Services (ILL/DDS)
The library offers staff members and interlibrary loan and document supply service for job-related materials.
- With respect to SLU home campus libraries, at the moment only electronic delivery of copies of journal articles and/or pages from books maintained in their print collection are available. No loans of books or journals are currently available. This service is free of charge.
- With respect to materials held by other libraries, staff members may request loans and/or copies of materials held by other libraries, although these requests will be subject to policies of the lending library. Given that requests made to non-SLU libraries implies payment of a fee on part of the university, please reserve your requests for those items not easily obtained by you elsewhere in Madrid.
All requests for loans and/or copies must be placed through the Madrid Campus Library Offices, as ILL/DDS is a service that functions between libraries and not individuals and libraries. To place an ILL/DDS request, please fill out the appropriate form below and send.
