MEMBERSHIP PROCEDURES FOR FACULTY

• Faculty members have to fill in a prescribed Membership Application Form and submit it along with one passport size photograph to the administrative section of the library. Chairman or Director or Head of the Department ensures identity of the faculty member.

MEMBERSHIP FACILITIES

• Core Faculty and Visiting Faculty may borrow up to fifteen books with related materials and Part-time Faculty may borrow up to five books with related materials at a time for maximum of fourteen days.
• Faculty may also borrow one textbook with related materials (i.e. textbook, solution manual, study guide etc., if available) for the full semester.
• Current journals, periodicals, reference and audio-visual materials may be borrowed for overnight use only.
• Bound journals, periodicals may also be borrowed for a maximum of seven days.

BORROWING SYSTEMS

• A Bar Coded Member ID is provided to each member for borrowing library resources.
• Faculty may borrow library resources at any one time for a maximum of fourteen days and renew them for further fourteen days provided the resources are physically produced and checked by the staff at circulation desk.
• Library resources are issued only to the members in person without any exception. The members are solely and fully responsible for safe keeping of the resources borrowed and their return on time.
• Library resources are checked out by the designated officer and need to be returned at the circulation desk during the working hours only.
• Borrowers must sign on the Book Card for each resource borrowed.
• Library resources borrowed may be recalled at any time. Normally, reserved or overdue books are recalled.

PENALTY

• Borrower must return the same library resources or pay the current value of lost item(s) with 20% service charge to the library.
• Any item not returned within six weeks after due date is considered as lost.

RENEWAL OF MEMBERSHIP

• Visiting and Part time faculty has to renew Bar Coded Member ID at the beginning of each semester.

MANDATORY

• Bar Coded Member ID is non-transferable. Any lost ID must be reported to the Librarian immediately.