Circulation

Faculty

Check-out

Professors may check out library materials in several ways:

In person at the Library Service Desk on the 9th floor of the library
By an email to the faculty member's liaison or to CIRCREQ (circreq@kentlaw.edu) identifying the item already found in the library and asking library staff to create a checkout record. Library staff can deliver items to a faculty office or faculty mailbox
By faculty research assistants on behalf of the professor if the professor has authorized this with a signed Faculty Research Assistant Library Permission Form

Click here to get the permission form in MS Word.

Circulation Policy

Downtown Campus faculty may borrow material from any location in the library. Books circulate for a period of 1 year, serials for 6 months and media items for 3 weeks.

Returning Books

Books may be returned to the Library’s Circulation Desk on the 9th floor, the library pick-up box (located near most faculty offices), or the book drop near the Bursar's Office on the 2nd floor.

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Students

Check-out

Students may check out items from the Library at the Circulation Desk on the 9th floor. A valid IIT student ID card (from Chicago-Kent Law School, Stuart School of Business, or main campus) serves as a library card for check-out purposes.

Circulation Policy

In order to insure the completeness of multi-volume and supplemented works, only single-volume items which are not supplemented may be checked out. Non-circulating items include:

Primary law (reporters, statutes, administrative materials)
Loose-leafs
Multi-volume sets
Reference material (including digests, directories, and encyclopedias)
All regularly updated (by pamphlet supplementation, or pocket parts) material

Books that circulate may be borrowed for 4 weeks. Media items circulate to graduate students for a period of 1 week. (Undergraduate students may not borrow media items.)

Items may be renewed by using the MyAccount feature in the Library's catalog, bringing the book to the Service Desk, or by telephone (312-906-5600).

Returning Books

Books may be returned to the Library’s Circulation Desk on the 9th floor or the book drop near the Bursar's Office on the 2nd floor.

Fines

A fine schedule applies to overdue books. Fines on overdue books borrowed for four weeks are $.50 per day with no maximum. Fines on Faculty Course Reserves materials kept over three hours are $.25 per hour.

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Subscribers

Check-out

Authorized users of the firm’s subscriber account may borrow materials by identifying themselves at the Circulation Desk on the 9th floor. Subscribers may be asked to produce identification to verify membership in the subscriber program.

Circulation Policy

In order to insure the completeness of multi-volume and supplemented works, only single-volume items which are not supplemented may be checked out. Non-circulating items include:

Primary law (reporters, statutes, administrative materials)
Loose-leafs
Multi-volume sets
Reference material (including digests, directories, and encyclopedias)
All regularly updated (by pamphlet supplementation, or pocket parts) material
All non-paper formatted materials

Books that circulate may be borrowed for four weeks. Four-week circulating books may be renewed by bringing the book to the Service Desk, or by telephone (312-906-5600).