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Borrowing Periods & Fines
Pratt faculty, students and staff must present a current Pratt ID card and have submitted a Library Registration Form (new students) to the Library Circulation department to borrow materials. Up to 10 items can be borrowed or renewed at one time. Borrowing privileges are revoked if fines amount to or exceed $10.00, until fines are paid. Multi-media and slides must be borrowed and returned to the Multi-Media and Visual Resources departments respectively.
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Circulating
Books |
Picture Files |
Reserve
Books |
1 Day
Loans |
Multi-
Media |
Slides |
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Students |
4 weeks |
4 weeks |
2 hours
In-house only
PMC unrestricted |
Due
next day
by 5pm |
1 day |
7 days |
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Faculty/Staff |
4 weeks |
4 weeks |
2 hours
In-house only
PMC unrestricted |
Due
next day
by 5pm |
1 day |
28 Days
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Renew |
Twice
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Once |
No |
No |
No |
No |
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Overdue Fine |
20¢/day |
20¢/day
per envelope |
$2.00/hour
or portion thereof |
$5.00/day |
$12.00/day |
50¢/day
per box |
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Lost Item Fine |
$90.00
see below |
$25
see below |
$90.00
see below |
$90.00
see below |
Determined
by dept. |
Determined
by dept. |
Notes concerning PMC Borrowing Policies:
CCPS students may borrow PMC lab materials for (one day only.) No borrowing privileges for the rest of the collection.
CCPS faculty has borrowing privileges while instructor’s classes are in session.
Visiting students: Visiting students, or others without valid ID may use the library but have no borrowing privileges other than the use of reserves.
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Interlibrary Loan |
Renewals |
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Students, faculty and staff may request the loan of books and journal articles not held by Pratt Libraries, a New Yor City-area public library, or an Academic Library of Brooklyn. To request an item via interlibrary loan, print out and complete this form (pdf) and return it to the Information/Reference Desk in the 1st floor East Reading Room. Students at PMC: return to PMC or contact Jean Hines (212) 647-7547 or jhines@pratt.edu
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Students, faculty and staff may renew books and envelopes of pictures in person at the Circulation Desk, or by phone (718) 636-3420 (Brooklyn) or (212) 647 7546 (Manhattan). Renew online through PrattCat. In order to renew items by phone, patrons must actually speak to a library staffperson - voice mail renewals are not allowed. Only one renewal is allowed. If items are renewed prior to their due date, the renewal period begins the day items are renewed, not after the initial due date.
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Paying Late Fines |
Outstanding Fines |
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All fines must be paid in the Bursar's Office. Library fines should be paid by check, credit card, exact change or money order. The Bursar does not give back change and will apply any balances owed to the patron's tuition. The Library does not accept payments. In order to pay fines, you must obtain a Fine Slip at the Circulation Desk which indicates the amount owed, and submit the slip with payment at the Bursar's Office. The Bursar's Office will provide you with a yellow receipt that must be returned to the Circulation Desk in order to clear your fines.
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Students with outstanding fines of any amount at the end of their final semester cannot graduate until fines are paid. Students with outstanding fines amounting to or exceeding $10.00 cannot borrow books, including reserve materials, until fines are paid, or are below $10.00.
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Lost Item Fines |
Claimed Returns |
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The fine for a lost book is $90.00 ($75.00 default price for the book replacement; $15.00 for processing the book). If the book is In-Print, the actual replacement cost, as listed in Books in Print, plus the $15.00 processing fee is charged.
A patron may replace the book with a copy he or she has purchased if the copy is acceptable to a librarian. However, the $15.00 processing fee must still be paid and if the librarian accepts a paperback substitute for a hardbound book, an additional $15 binding fee will be added to the lost book fee.
If the book is Out-of-Print, the librarian sets an appropriate price. A $75.00 default may be used (especially for art, design and architecture books). For other books, an equivalent title may be purchased and the cost of the title plus the processing fee will be charged to the patron.
Replacement fees for picture files are $25.00.
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If a patron believes he or she has returned a book, but the Library has no record of its return, and fines have incurred, he or she should speak to a circulation clerk or librarian and complete a Claimed Returned form.
The Library will initiate a search for the item and the patron will not be blocked from borrowing for a limited period of time. If the item is not found in the Library, the patron is then responsible for either replacing the material or paying the appropriate fine. See "Lost Item Fines."
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Book Drop Box |
Students with Incompletes |
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Only books may be returned through the outside Book Drop Box. Multi-media and slides should be returned direcly to their respective Centers during their regular hours, and should not be dropped into either the outside Book Drop Box, or the Circulation Desk Drop Box. Patrons who do so will be charged for lost or damaged items, and for any overdue fines incurred.
Reserve materials should not be returned through the Circulation Desk Drop Box; but should be handed directly to a circulation clerk, as they risk accruing late fines.
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A student with an incomplete who is unable to resolve the incomplete within 30 days after the end of the term in which the incomplete is recorded, and who is not currently registered for classes, may apply to their department chairs for letters of endorsement. The Head of Libraries or Director of Reader Services may (at his or her discretion) provide an extension for Library access.
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Non-Circulating Books |
Summer Privileges |
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Books marked "non-circulating" or "reference" cannot be checked out of the Library without special permission.
Current faculty in good standing with the Library may check out, with a librarian's approval, non-circulating stacks books. The maximum loan period is one day. For a loan period longer than one day the faculty member must speak to the bibliographer for that subject area.
Librarians may decide not to circulate the material if the material is deemed too fragile or rare, or the faculty member has current blocks in the Libraries' system. (A block is defined as overdue material that the system considers "Lost.")
To expedite the process at the Circulation Desk the librarian will fill out a pass for each item, indicating the due date, and make a printout of each item's bibliographic record for the Library's records. Faculty may then check the items out at the Circulation Desk with their current Pratt ID. All material should also be returned to the Circulation Desk.
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All registered students (with summer or upcoming fall stickers) and staff may check out books during the summer term.
Adjunct and full-time faculty with continuing appointments may continue to borrow materials over the summer. Visiting faculty with no confirmed appointment for the fall semester are limited to reading privileges during the summer.
Students with summer residence hall contracts or summer work awards, who are not registered for the summer term, are eligible for summer validation of Pratt ID cards with proof of residency or work (letter from supervisor). They may have access to the Library, with reading and borrowing privileges. Students who have pre-registered and prepaid for the fall semester also have summer privileges with proof of tuition pre-payment.
Pre-College Program students may be allowed access to the stacks, and to use the Library for research. The Director of Libraries or Director of Reader Services should be consulted.
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