Borrowing Facilities
A student user can borrow text book/reference book and a fiction/general reading book. Each student member upon registration will receive two loan tickets for borrowing books from lending and schedule reference. Every year a student member will get additional one lending tickets until fourth year. Hence, at the end of the fourth and fifth year, a student member can borrow four lending books and one schedule reference book.
A permanent academic staff member could borrow maximum of ten text/reference books and one fiction/general reading book.
A temporary academic staff member could borrow maximum of ten text/reference books and one fiction/general reading book.
Administrative and Non-academic staff can borrow only one fiction/general reading book.
A borrower is not allowed to exceed the above numbers for any reason or under any circumstances.
a) Lending Procedure:
Except certain categories (e.g. Permanent Reference Materials, Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Atlases, Glossaries, Students’ Project Reports, Research Thesis, Periodicals materials, etc.,) all other books may be borrowed. A book will be issued only when the Loan Ticket and Student Identity Card are produced at the circulation counter.
b) Returns of issued books
Students can keep the borrowed books with them for
- One week for LENDING materials
- Overnight or Weekend (if taken on Fridays) for SCHEDULE REFERENCE materials
Academic staff can keep the borrowed books with them for
- One month for LENDING materials
- Overnight or Weekend for SCHEDULE REFERENCE materials
Borrowed Materials should be returned to the library counter on the due date. The schedule book should be returned on the next working day (falling after the borrowed date) before 9.00 am.
Failing to return the issued books on the due date/time, a fine will be imposed.