Using Books and Other Library Materials

Current faculty and staff with a Lamar University or Lamar Institute of Technology identification card may check out books from the library.

• You may check out up to fifty books.

• You can keep books for ninety days.

• You may renew a book (check it out again) unless another patron has requested it.

• You may renew a book by bringing it to the library.

• You may renew a book by accessing My Account.

• Other materials:

  • Archives and Special Collections materials may only be used in the Special Collections room on the seventh floor.

  • Government Documents (available on the second floor) have variable check out restrictions. Please inquire when you use them.

  • Media Services materials may check out for one to three days depending on the item.

  • Periodicals/Reserves (i.e. journals, magazines, and newspapers):

  • Current issues (available from the Periodicals/Reserves Desk on the second floor) may be checked out for two hours.

  • Bound volumes (found in the Stacks) may be checked out one volume at a time for one week.

  • Microfilm volumes (found on the second floor) may not be checked out.

  • Reference books (from the Reference area on the first floor) may be used only in the Reference area. These and other non-circulating materials may be loaned after consultation with a reference librarian.

  • Reserve materials (available from the Periodicals/Reserves Desk on the second floor) have variable check out restrictions. Please inquire when you use them