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Library Services For Staff

Welcome to the George and Helen Ladd Library.

For Staff :

    Borrowing Library Material
    Your Bates ID serves as your library card.
    You must have this card with you in order to check out materials.
    Loan periods
    vary by material, i.e., books circulate one year; sound recordings, 30 days; and videos, 3 days. All checked out material is subject to recall.

    Renewing Material
    Any material checked out for less than one year can be renewed online.
    All other Bates materials must be renewed in person at the Circulation desk with the items in hand.

    Request material from Other Libraries
    For material that we don't own, other than journal articles, you can place a request directly through MaineCat or NExpress and only if not available from these sources should you use Interlibrary loan. For journal article requests, use the article ILL form once you log in using your netword username/password.

    We will notify you when the items arrive and hold them for you at the Circulation Desk, except for journal article requests which will be sent to you electronically.

    Access online databases from off-campus
    How it's done.

    Ask a Librarian
    Contact a reference librarian for help on using the library and its resources.

For Affiliates: (family members, children under 21)
    Borrowing Library Material
    Bates IDs are issued by Security and used as library cards.
    Book material can be checked out for 28 days and is subject to recall. Video and sound recordings must be used in the library.

    Renewing Material
    All material can be renewed in person at the Circulation Desk or by phone (207-786-6263) up to 12 renewals.

    Computer Use in the Library
    Computers in the Library are restricted to those who are doing research using the Bates catalog, journal indexes, government information and other electronic collections. They are not for word processing or Internet searching, per se.


Page author: Laura Juraska
Date: 01/10/08


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