This handbook is a guide to the use of materials and services in the Library. You will find information, regulations, policies, and services you need to know about the Library. At Lenoir-Rhyne, the stacks are open and you are free to browse and select the books you wish to borrow. If you are unable to locate material, any staff member will be happy to assist you.

Fall/Spring Semester:

Monday-Thursday	8:00 a.m. - Midnight
Friday	8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Saturday	10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday	2:00 p.m. - Midnight

Students registered at Lenoir-Rhyne College may borrow circulating materials from the Library. Please follow the procedures as listed herein for checking out materials.

Current valid identification cards are REQUIRED for checking out materials. One may be obtained from Residence Life/Student Services Office located in the Cromer Center.

Personal copies and library materials placed by faculty request are located at the Circulation Desk and are circulated for in-house, one day, and three-day use only. Students must present their validated identification card to the circulation staff in order to use this material.

Curriculum materials used to support the Education program are housed in the Curriculum Laboratory located on the second level. These materials may be used in the Lab or may be checked out at the Circulation Desk. Materials circulate for one week.

Books and materials are sensitized to prohibit unlawful removal from the Library. If materials are NOT properly checked out, an alarm will sound and the exit gate will lock as persons pass through it. A violation of the security system will result in the issuance of a violation ticket. Three violation tickets will result in notification to the Dean of Students’ Office for subsequent action.

Please return to the Circulation Desk to discover the problem.

1.  Books may be borrowed for one month and may be recalled by any student or faculty after they have been in circulation for ten days.  Please ask for assistance in recalling books at the Circulation Desk.

Books in the Juvenile and Curriculum Lab collections are charged out for one week.   If a book you want is checked out, you may:

a. Place a HOLD on the book, which automatically reserves it for you when it is returned and does not  allow the book to be renewed.
                                                                            OR
b. Place a RECALL on the book, which makes the book due in ten days (if it has been checked out for less than a week).

2.  When recall or hold books are returned,  they will be "held" at the Circulation Desk for seven days. A notice will be sent to the individual who placed the hold or recall. If not picked up at the end of seven days, the hold or the recall is automatically cancel and the material is returned to the stacks.

3.  You are urged to keep your student information in the Library database current, including name, box number or address changes, since recalled material changes due dates, and you become fine liable if the notice does reach you due to personal information changes.

4  When not reserved for another patron, books may be renewed in person or by phone.  In renewal by phone, please give the following information:

Name and ID#
Barcode numbers of the materials (usually located on inside book
flap upper left hand corner),

Make sure you write the due date on the due date card. You will be held responsible when the material becomes overdue.

Materials are placed on reserve at the request of the faculty member and are circulated from the Main Circulation Desk. Reserve materials loan fall into the following categories:

THREE DAY RESERVE BOOKS may be checked out at any time during the day. Books will be due at 10:00 a.m. on the third day following the day checked out exception on Sunday when due at 2:00 p.m.

ONE DAY RESERVE BOOKS may be checked for overnight use at any time during the day. Books will be due the following morning at 10:00 a.m. except on Sunday when due at 2:00 p.m.

STRICT RESERVE BOOKS do not circulate from the Library.

RETURNING BOOKS

You may return materials to the desk from which they were borrowed, or, when the Library is closed, in the Book Deposit located to the left of the front doors.

The charges for late return of Library materials are as follows:

One month, one week, and curriculum lab materials; 25 cents a day per item for days the Library is open. The maximum fine is $25.00 or the list price of the item when the list price is more than $25.00.

Reserve material: 25 cents per item for the first HOUR and 10 cents for each additional hour for the hours the Library is open.

Audio-visual materials: software, 25 cents per day the Library is open; hardware, $1.00 per day the Library is open.

A receipt will be given when requested. It is recommended you keep your receipt in case of any dispute over payment.

In paying a fine, or paying for a lost item, one is paying for abusing the privilege of using the item and not for the item itself. The item remains the property of Lenoir-Rhyne College and the Carl A. Rudisill Library.

Upon reaching a $5.00 fine limit, you will not be allowed borrowing privileges until this amount has been reduced or resolved.

At the end of a semester, student’s account will be billed for the replacement and fine amounts.
The Registrar’s Office will hold all requests until the Library account has been cleared by the
Circulation Department.

Please report lost Library materials immediately to the Circulation Librarian. Upon notification of a lost item, fines will stop. If the item cannot be found, the list price will charged plus any fines incurred until settlement is made. The list price of the item will credited to the student’s account if the lost material is found and returned to the Library in good condition; however, the maximum fine will be charged.

Generally all campus media is located in the Learning Resource Center of the Library and can be obtained from the Media Circulation Desk. With few exceptions, audio-visual software may be checked out for one week, audio-visual hardware for one day. Software may be recalled in three days if required by another patron.

Viewing equipment for in-house use is provided in the Learning Resource Center preview carrels.

Most media are listed in the online catalog. Those materials located at other locations can be recalled by requesting through the Media Circulation Desk. The Library will obtain the media from the department for you. Ordinarily the Library will need one day to retrieve such materials. Check back after 24 hours to see if the material has been retrieved.

We need your cooperation and help in following the policies listed here:

Food, beverages or tobacco products are not permitted in the Library.

Because distractions are unwelcome to readers, you should keep noise and conversation to a minimum.

In order to give staff time to clear the Library for the day, all activities must be completed 15 minutes before closing. The Library will close promptly at the indicated times. Security will be called to assist staff if patrons refuse to vacate the building.

The term "classification" as applied to the Library means the arrangement of books by subject matter. Books in the Carl A. Rudisill Library are arranged according to the Library of Congress classification system.

Brief outline of the Library of Congress (LC) classification system:

Each item in the Library is assigned its own classification and these are called "call numbers". Material is arranged on the shelves by these call numbers and each has its own unique number. Most call numbers have three lines. (Some call numbers will have more than three basic lines to indicate the edition date, the volume number, the copy number, or other similar distinguishing information.) The parts to the three-line call number are:

The letter(s) on the first line

The number on the second line

The letter/number on the third line

Books are shelved by the first letter(s) on the first line—so the A’s come first. A letter standing alone is shelved before that letter combined with another. The second line number is always a WHOLE NUMBER while the letter and number combination on the third line is a DECIMAL.

 

Example:

BL
226
.H35
1988

Special location symbols are used with some of the call numbers.

If you need help in finding any kind of information, please feel free to ask the Circulation Desk staff or any member of the Library staff for assistance. Reference desk service is also available during the following hours:

Students, staff, and faculty members may request materials from other libraries. If you need a book or photocopy of a periodical article, which our Library does not own, please visit the Interlibrary Loan Office located near the Quiet Study room to fill out a request form. Loans usually take 7 to 21 days to arrive. However, if a periodical article is ordered through the Library’s Mountain College Library Network (MCLN), the article should arrive within 24 hours after your request.

Newly acquired books are placed on open shelves in front of the Circulation Desk so that you may browse through them. These books may be checked out at the Circulation Desk. Near the Circulation Librarian’s office, a display of new "Good Read" books is also available for checkout.

The Library is continually purchasing new books. If you find that the Library lacks information in specific areas, please bring your suggestions to the Acquisitions/Reference Librarian.

Photocopies may be made on the coin-operated machines located on the ground floor of the Library and in the Curriculum Lab on the second floor. The cost is 5 cents per page and you will need exact change. Change can be obtained at the Circulation Desk on the first level. Copyright regulations and copier directions are posted near the copier.

As a courtesy to the campus community, the Library sends e-mail notices when library materials are overdue. It is the responsibility of the student to check e-mail messages for any overdue notices. Once material is checked out, however, the library patron assumes responsibility for returning it in good condition and on time whether or not a notice has been sent.

The Library has electric typewriters for your use located on the first floor in the general stack area. If you prefer, you may bring your own typewriter.

A pay telephone is located to the right of the front doors for off-campus calls. DO NOT use the telephones in any office or workstation.

Coin-operated microfilm and microfiche reader-printers are located on the ground floor of the library. The cost for copying microform is ten cents per copy; exact change is required for these machines. Change can be obtained from the Circulation Desk on the first floor.

The closed study carrels on the second floor are assigned to graduate students, honor students and faculty through the Office of the Library Director.

Current issues of periodicals are arranged alphabetically by title and shelved in the current periodical section of the Library. Bound volumes and back issues of many unbound titles are located on the ground floor of the Library. Also, microfilm and microfiche of periodicals and newspapers are filed in cabinets on the ground floor. Microfiche are available at the Periodical Desk. Computer printouts will give you information concerning format and location of the volumes of periodicals. Periodical holdings are also available on the Library’s home page under Searchable databases - LR Holdings or MCLN Holdings. The Library’s home page is

The Library computer lab is located on the ground level. To access the computers, users must have an LR campus e-mail account. Public access is prohibited.

The databases offered to the campus community allow a wide variety of subject resources one of which is the NCLIVE system which allows statewide access to electronic and print resources. Types of databases available are:

1. EBSCOHOST which offers access to both full text databases, abstracting and indexing databases. It includes both scholarly and popular journals as well as an encyclopedia.

          Databases include:

MasterFile Full Text 1500
Academic Search Full Text Elite
Business source Elite
Hoover’s Company Profiles
Newspaper Source
Health Source Plus
ERIC
Serials Directory
Encyclopedia

2. CARL NOVELIST, a database online reader’s advisory tool that helps readers find new books or topics in which they are interested and feature articles.

3. OCLC FIRSTSEARCH offers access to multiple databases, links to the OCLC Interlibrary Loan service and library holdings.

                              Databases available are: