Borrowing Materials
Borrowing Materials, and Borrowing Privileges
Students, faculty, and staff of the University of St. Thomas are the primary clientele of the UST Libraries. Other users (CLIC-affiliated users, MTLA consortium affiliates, ELS students, Friends of the Library, Inter-District School faculty) also have certain borrowing privileges. The length of the loan period and cost of the Identification/library card are determined by the affiliation with the University, as specified in the tables below.
The UST Libraries are open to the general public and all visitors may use reference materials and services, electronic databases and other resources on site. Circulating material from the UST Libraries may be loaned to public and academic libraries through interlibrary loan. All borrowers must present appropriate ID (UST ID card, CLIC school ID card, alumni/friends card, etc.) in order to check out library materials.
Category 1: UST Affiliated Users
| Affiliation | ID Card | Loan Period | Renewals | Total Items | Media | CLIC | ILL |
|
Undergraduate students |
UST |
6 weeks |
Twice, 4 weeks |
unlimited |
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Graduate students |
UST |
6 weeks |
Twice, 4 weeks |
unlimited |
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Faculty/staff |
UST |
Semester |
Twice, additional term |
unlimited |
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Faculty Emeriti |
UST |
Semester |
Twice, additional term |
unlimited |
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Retired Faculty/staff |
UST |
6 weeks |
Twice, 4 weeks |
6 max |
No |
No |
No |
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Alumni card |
6 weeks |
Twice, 4 weeks |
6 max |
No |
No |
No | |
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Senior Citizen Students |
Senior Citizen Card |
6 weeks |
Twice, 4 weeks |
6 max |
No |
No |
No |
Category 2: Other Users
| Affiliation | ID Card | Loan Period | Total Items |
|
CLIC students |
CLIC school ID |
6 weeks |
unlimited |
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CLIC faculty and staff |
CLIC school ID |
varies |
unlimited |
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ELS students |
ELS ID |
6 weeks |
6 max |
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Friends of Ireland Library (at Ireland only) |
Friends card |
6 weeks |
6 max |
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Friends of OSF Library (at OSF only) |
Friends card |
6 weeks |
6 max |
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MTLA consortium (at Ireland only) |
School ID |
6 weeks |
ask |
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Faculty of Inter-District School (at Keffer only) |
Inter-District ID |
6 weeks, or end of semester |
ask |
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Friends of Law Library (at Law Library only) |
Bar ID |
6 weeks |
3 max |
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High school students |
Picture ID |
n/a |
n/a |
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Members of the public |
Picture ID |
n/a |
n/a |
