Georgetown University faculty may borrow as many books as they need from the Lauinger, Blommer Science and Woodstock Theological libraries.
Loan Period
Tenure, tenure-track, and retired faculty
Books will be due on January 31, 2011.
Adjunct, visiting, part-time faculty, and graduate lecturers
Books will be due on either January 31 or May 31, depending on when the materials are checked out. All books borrowed after May 31 will be due in the upcoming January. All books borrowed after November will be due in the upcoming May.
Research faculty
Your book loan period is six weeks. Please see the policies on Visiting Researchers for more details of your privileges.
All books are subject to recall after four weeks if requested by another borrower, two weeks if needed for Course Reserves.
For the borrowing periods for all other materials (periodicals, multimedia, Government Docs., etc.) please visit Borrowing Policies by Material Type.
Renewing books
You must physically bring all materials to the Circulation / Reserve desk in order to renew. You may not renew over the phone, on-line, or without the materials.
Fines will accrue on all materials renewed three days or more beyond the listed due date.
Overdue Fines
Overdue notices are sent to your Georgetown e-mail address as a courtesy. Failure to receive notices of overdue items is not grounds for dismissing fines.
Fines are levied against all overdue items.
Circulating items: $0.25 / per day
Bound periodicals: $4.00 /first day, $2.00 each additional day, replacement charge after 4 days overdue
Interlibrary Loan items: $0.25 / per day
Media: $1.00 / first hour; $0.50 each additional hour
Multimedia CDs and Books: $0.25 / per day
Recalled items: $5.00 / per day
Reserve items: 2, 4 or 24 hour loan period $1.00 / first hour; $0.50 each additional hour
Reserve items: 3 day loan period $2.00 / first day; $1.00 each additional day
A block will be placed on your circulation record if you owe $100.00 or more in fines.
Lost or Damaged Materials
Book replacement options:
1) $57 replacement cost, $30 processing fee and any fine charges up to a maximum of $10,
or
2) A copy of the material may be brought to the Circulation Desk by the patron for replacement consideration by the Library. If accepted, there will be a $15 processing fee and any fines accrued up to a maximum of $10.
Multimedia:
Replacement costs and options for multimedia can be found at here.
Reserves:
Please contact Reserves at reserves@georgetown.edu or (202) 687-7644 for replacement options.
Interlibrary Loans:
Please contact the ILL office at ill@georgetown.edu or (202) 687-7428 for replacement options.
