3. Access to the Library collection

Circulation desk - rules of use

1. Renting books is possible exclusively for the owner of a valid library card, after showing the electronic student’s ID, which is simultaneously a library card.

2. The account is valid for 365 days since created. After a year it shall be prolonged. To do this, one shall go to any University Library with a valid ID card. The fee for prolongation is 5 zl.

3. Books available for renting have the status ”available”.

4. Book reservation: a book can be reserved if all the available copies of it have been borrowed. A Student can check on their library account which place on the waiting list they are (tab ORDERS). The system sends an automatic email with information concerning the possibility of collecting the book, which shall be collected at a given library within 5 days. After that time, the book will be place in the storeroom.

5. Students may borrow 15 books per month (including CDs and DVDs) with the possibility of prolonging the rental period by a month twice.
Students with a higher limit of loans (individual study mode, second major of studying or last year of studying) may borrow 20 books with the possibility of prolonging the rental period by a month twice.
Students with a higher limit of loans are obliged to report the change of their status at the circulation desk.

6. Books, CDs/DVDs and e-books readers are to be returned on time. The fee for exceeding the due day for returning the items (according to the Price List) is:
- books, CDs/DVDs from the collection available for renting and ebook readers - 0,50 zl/day for every single copy,
- books from the collection available for a short-term renting - 5 zl/day for every single copy.

7. Until all the reader’s commitments towards the Library are regulated, the right to use the loan service is suspended.
Information about the due date for returning the books are received via email.

8. Books ordered to the circulation desk awaits 3 days to be collected and those ordered to the reading room - till the end of the day.

9. Books are collected and returned at the site of their original placement.

Reading room - rules of use

1. Any person may use the reading room, without the necessity to register in the Library.

2. There function three ways of the collections circulating:

• Open stacks (in Polish Wolny dostęp)
Collections are classified and ordered in relation to the subject/scientific fields (The UG Library systematic classification) and within the fields alphabetically according to the author and in case of collective work according to the title. In order to find a given position one shall check out the classiffication number eg. H.10.2.1.0 in the online catalog. Books from open stacks have the following information given: the name of the library and the word Reading Room, eg. Reading Room II — BUG Oliwa) and a status: Non-Circulating

• ordering through the online catalog
Books whose localization is the name of the library (eg., BEkon and the status: Non-Circulating are ordered exclusively to a reading room. Ordered books awaits to be collected till the end of the day in which the order was placed.

• Ordering through placing separate request form
In specialised libraries devoid of open stacks, books and journals in the reading room (online catalog: the name of the library + Reading Room) are ordered through placing a separate request form.