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How long can I borrow a book for?
Our Library Catalogue will tell you where and for how long you can take a book out.
Using the Library Catalogue to find a book
The information the Catalogue gives you is:
- Which Library holds the book (Location)
- What the loan period is (Standard Loan, Short Loan, and Reserve)
- The shelfmark of the book
- How many copies of the book the Library holds
- Whether or not the book is out (Charged/Not Charged)
Main Author: "Wolfe: Thomas"; Title "The web and the rock"; Location: "Main Library (STANDARD LOAN)"; Shelfmark: .8135 Wol."; Number of items: "1"; Status: "Not Charged"
Lending times
Reserve books my be borrowed for 3 hours, or overnight if issued within 3 hours before closing time.
In the Main Library HUB Reserve books can be borrowed overnight:
- Monday-Thursday after 7pm
- Friday after 4pm
- Saturday after 2pm
- Sunday after 4pm
Short Loan books may be borrowed for 1 week *
Standard Loan books may be borrowed for:
- 4 weeks by Undergraduates and other catagories of users*
- 12 weeks by Postgraduates, University staff and Lothian Health Trust staff*
* Please note that Short Loan and Standard Loan books can be requested back from you by other users. For more information on this please go to:
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If you have any queries about loan periods:
This article was published on Aug 16, 2012