Reposting from Library News, because it is important: Smart Use of Course Reserves

The Library places 12,000 items “on reserve” each year. In order to make a shared copy of key works available to everyone enrolled in the course, reserve items are loaned for short periods — generally 2 hours or 1 day. Beginning this fall semester, all overdue course reserve items will incur fines, since late returns deprive other students from access to the required materials.

With this new policy, reserves fines are the same across all campus libraries; they cannot be waived or appealed. The fine is $2.50/hour after the due date. Once the item is so late to be deemed lost it incurs a replacement cost and processing fee. At the maximum fine, the borrower’s account is blocked and the borrower must pay the full bill to be cleared.
For borrowers who return items on time, course reserves will continue to be a free service. As with all library materials, it is the borrower’s responsibility to take care of reserve items. Library staff will be making an extra effort to publicize the new uniform fining policy in the hopes that all students avoid unnecessary charges.

Fines for Overdue Course Reserves

Beginning fall semester 2013, a library-wide policy for fining overdue course reserves will take effect:

2-HOUR CIRCULATING RESERVES
$2.50 for each hour overdue

When a course reserve fine reaches the $60 maximum, the patron’s library privileges will be blocked.

Failure to return any item for an extended period will result in an additional assessment of the standard minimum $150 replacement charge, plus non-refundable processing fees.

All Art History/Classics Library reserves must be returned to the Art History/Classics Library.

If you have any questions, please contact the Privileges Desk at Doe Circulation.


Fines for Overdue Course Reserves

Beginning fall semester 2013, a library-wide policy for fining overdue course reserves will take effect:

2-HOUR CIRCULATING RESERVES
$2.50 for each hour overdue

When a course reserve fine reaches the $60 maximum, the patron’s library privileges will be blocked.

Failure to return any item for an extended period will result in an additional assessment of the standard minimum $150 replacement charge, plus non-refundable processing fees.

All Art History/Classics Library reserves must be returned to the Art History/Classics Library.

If you have any questions, please contact the Privileges Desk at Doe Circulation.



The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Oral History Project

Photo of Bay Bridge 1936 courtest of The Bancroft Library

The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Oral History Project tells the story of this engineering marvel. Enabling billions of passengers to drive from Oakland to San Francisco, or vice versa, since it opened to the public 1936, the Bay Bridge binds together the region like no other man-made structure. The majority of interviewees for this project spent their careers working on and around the bridge, and they offer their perspective on the engineering achievements, the maintenance challenges, and the complex symbolism of this massive structure.

Visit the project website: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/projects/baybridge/