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Can I borrow? What can I borrow? For how long?

Who Are You?

• Members of the Carnegie Mellon community
  • Undergraduate: 30 days. 50 books. 1 renewal per book.
    
  • Graduate: 60 days. 50 books. 1 renewal per book.
  • Faculty/Staff: 90 days. 100 books. 1 renewal per book.
  • Faculty/Staff Family: 30 days. 10 books. 1 renewal per book.
  • Visiting Affiliate Faculty/Staff: 90 days. 100 books. 1 renewal per book.
  • Academy for Lifelong Learning (ALL): 30 days. 10 books. 1 renewal per book.
  • Special Program: 7 days. 10 books. 2 renewals per book.
    
    
• Other Users
  • Oakland Library Consortium: 30 days. 10 books. 1 renewal per book.
  • PALINET: 30 days. 10 books. 1 renewal per book.
  • "Special Borrower" (purchase library card): 30 days. 10 books. No renewals.
  • Use your institution's interlibrary loan services to borrow Carnegie Mellon materials for you.
    
    

What Do You Want To Borrow?

• Audio CDs: 7 days. 2 renewals per disc.
• Books: See Who Are You?, above.
• Course Reserves: Some 2 hours in-library, some overnight. No renewals. Carnegie Mellon users only.

• Dissertations/Theses: 30 days. 1 renewal per item. Carnegie Mellon users only.

• Journals (magazines): 24 hours. No renewals. Carnegie Mellon users only.

• Multimedia CDs: Same as books.
  

• Newspapers: NO BORROWING.

• Reference materials: NO BORROWING.

• Slides: Same as books but no limit on quantity. Carnegie Mellon users only.

• Video and Film: In-library viewing and classroom use only. Carnegie Mellon users only.
• VisualStudio CDs: 24 hours. No renewals. Carnegie Mellon users only.