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Home > Using the Library > Library Policies > Library Materials Policies

Library Materials

The library collection includes over 500,000 print volumes, thousands of print and online journals and over 100 specialized online databases. Any of these materials may be used in the library by IIT affiliated students, faculty, and staff. Visitors are allowed access to these materials according to the guidelines on our Library Services page.

The policies below explain which items can be checked out and how long the loan periods are for different types of library users. If you have questions about these policies, please contact the Reference Desk or our Access Services Librarian, Eric Neagle (eneagle@kentlaw.edu).

Faculty and students at the Downtown Campus may also access many databases and electronic resources are outside the library through our remote access login. See our E-Resources policies for more information.

Circulation Policies

These policies only cover materials checked out through the Downtown Campus Library. For instructions on borrowing books from other IIT Libraries, the I-Share consortium of 75+ Illinois libraries, or through Interlibrary loan, please see our "Borrowing books from other Libraries" guide.

Faculty

Downtown Campus faculty may borrow material from any location in the library. Books may be borrowed for a period of 1 year, serials for 6 months and media items for 3 weeks. Items are renewed through the faculty library liaisons.

Students

Books that circulate may be borrowed for 4 weeks, with 4 renewals available. Media items circulate to graduate students for a period of 1 week. (Undergraduate students may not borrow media items.) To find out which books and other items cannot be checked out, see "Non-Circulating Items" below.

Adjunct Faculty

Adjunct library accounts are created upon request. Please contact our Access Services Librarian, Eric Neagle (eneagle@kentlaw.edu), to set up your library account. Downtown Campus adjunct faculty may borrow any circulating items with a valid IIT ID card. Access to non-circulating items may be provided upon request: please contact a reference librarian or the Reference Desk (refreq@kentlaw.edu) for more information. Books may be borrowed for 12 weeks and may be renewed 2 times.

Staff

Downtown Campus and IIT staff may borrow any circulating items with a valid IIT ID card. Staff accounts are created upon request: please contact our Access Services Librarian, Eric Neagle (eneagle@kentlaw.edu), to set up your library account. Books may be borrowed for 6 weeks and renewed 4 times.

Subscribers

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. Circulating items may be borrowed for 4 weeks and renewed 4 times.

I-Share Consortium Members

Faculty borrowing items from our library through the I-Share program may borrow circulating items for 15 weeks, with 5 renewals available. Students borrowing items from our library though the I-Share program may borrow items for 4 weeks, with 4 renewals available. To find out whether your library is a part of this program, please check this list of 75+ I-Share Libraries.

Public

Members of the general public do not have circulation privileges. Use of library materials is governed by "Services for Public Users." For more extensive privileges, please consider our Library Subscriber program.

 

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Non-Circulating Items

To ensure the completeness of multi-volume and supplemented works, only single-volume items which are not supplemented may be checked out to students, adjunct faculty, and library subscribers. Full-time faculty are able to check out these items for use in their research.

If a non-circulating items is unavailable or checked out for faculty research, please contact our Access Services Librarian, Eric Neagle (eneagle@kentlaw.edu), to find out if it can be retrieved.

Items which cannot be checked out 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 (except LPOP DVDs, see special collections below)

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Microforms

The IIT Downtown Campus has a collection of hundreds of thousands of microfilm and microfiche documents on the 6th floor of the library. These documents are labeled "DTC Microforms (6th Floor) (Non Circulating)" in the Library catalog. To provide access to these documents, there is a reader machine located in the northwest corner of the 6th floor.

Library staff can provide printed or scanned copies of microforms for any DTC faculty, student, staff or subscriber. We do not provide printers or scanned copies for the general public. Request prints or scans of microform documents at the Circulation Desk. Prints or scans are usually provided within 24 hours, depending on staff availability.

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Special Collections

These items have special circulation policies associated with them:

• Law in Popular Culture DVDs: 7 day check out, renewals ok
• Faculty Reserve Items: 3 hour check out, $.25 per minute fines
• Reserve Room Books (10th Floor): these items do not circulate

Renewing Items

You can personally renew items checked out on your account with the MyAccount feature in the Library's catalog or by visiting the Library's Circulation Desk on the 9th floor. Faculty and subscribers can also renew items by contacting the Circulation Desk via phone or e-mail:

• circreq@kentlaw.edu
• 312-906-5600

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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. Chicago-Kent faculty may also use the library pick-up boxes available on the 6th, 7th, and 8th floors.

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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