Borrowing and Renewals
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Users can borrow a maximum of 50 items at any one time
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All loans must be registered at the Loan Desk (where there is also a self-service facility)
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Items on loan may be kept until the due date given on the user's personal Library account
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Loans may be renewed twice by the user, if not reserved by another user, after which items must be returned to the Library
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No item may be borrowed on behalf of another person without express authorisation and/or presentation of that person's EUI Library card
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Users are legally responsible for all items borrowed in their name
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An overdue item may be renewed but if the ‘grace period’ has elapsed before the renewal, a fine is still payable
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Inter-library loans may not be renewed
Users are legally responsible for all items checked out in their name and must ensure that they are not damaged or lost. It is a serious offence to write in, damage, lose or refuse to return Library material. The cost of replacement for lost or damaged material will be charged to the user and other sanctions may be applied.
My Reading History service allows you to review what you have checked out once you activate this option.| Once you enable this service, all items you check out will be recorded until you delete them or disable My Reading History.
Borrowed books remain on a user's loan record and are subject to fines until they have been checked in at the Loans Desk.
All EUI buildings except the Badia have a secure box labelled ‘EUI Library Books Drop’. Deposited books are returned to the Library and checked in every week-day. Check your
personal Library account|
to ensure that books have reached the Library and been checked in. It is the responsibility of the user to notify the Library of any discrepancy.
Fines are charged automatically by the Library system. To avoid a fine, if a book is overdue and near the end of its ‘grace period’, you should bring it to the Library in person so that it can be reissued.
Some older and/or rare material is kept in storage. To consult these documents, make a storage request|. Requested documents are collected from the storage three times a week, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and are available at the Loan Desk from 16.00 onwards.
When a document is on loan, an EUI member may reserve the item by using the 'Place Hold' option in the Catalogue. The item will be kept at the Loan Desk for the user when it is returned by the borrower who can no longer renew the loan. Items may only be recalled immediately by Library staff if they are needed for seminars.
Consulted items should not be reshelved, but left on the book trolleys available throughout the Library for quick reshelving.
Only borrowed library materials containing a current date slip and personal research materials stored on the shelves of allocated working-spaces will not be reshelved.
Books reserved for seminars are kept at the Loan Desk. They must be checked out before being consulted in the Library, and then checked in at the Loan Desk. Overnight or weekend loans of specific items are only allowed by departmental request. Use the Library Catalogue to check for seminar literature listed by professor or by course.
Books reserved for Economics seminars (‘VSP reserve’) are kept at Villa San Paolo.
euilib@eui.eu|
Tel. +39 055 4685 358