Lending policies
The tables below show the number and duration of loans of the "Loanable" bibliographic materials, depending on the type of user.
Type of user |
Loan period |
Maximum loan periodincluding renewals |
Number of loans per library |
Number of holding requests |
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| Loanable | Loanable 15 days | Loanable 1 day | Loanable | Loanable 15 days | Loanable 1 day | ||||
Institutional user |
Students | 30 days | 15 days | 1 day | 180 days | 75 days | 1 day | 15 | 30 |
| Faculty, Post-lauream, Staff | 60 days | 15 days | 1 day | 360 days | 75 days | 1 day | 20 | 40 | |
Guest user |
30 days | 15 days | 1 day | 90 days | 30 days | 1 day | 5 | 25 | |
Two cases of bibliographic materials can only be loaned to particular types of users, as described in the table below. These materials are indicated as ‘Research Fund’ and ‘7-day Loan’ in GalileoDiscovery. Psychodiagnostic tests stored in the Test Section of the Biblioteca Centrale di Psicologia "Fabio Metelli" also belong to the material available as ‘7-day loan’.
Lending status "Not Loanable – Research Fund / 7-day loan" |
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| Type of user | Number of loans per library |
Loan period |
Renewals |
Number of holding requests |
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| Research Fund | 7-day loan | Research Fund | 7-day loan | Research Fund | 7-day loan | Research Fund | 7-day loan | Research Fund | 7-day loan |
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Faculty with Research Fund |
Faculty of the department affiliated with the library | No limit | 2 | 3 years | 7 days | Every 3 years | 1 | Not provided | Not provided |
Books marked as ‘Not loanable’ in GalileoDiscovery cannot be lent to users but can be consulted in the library.
Requested books pick-up
When the requested book is available, the user is notified by telephone or e-mail.
The user must register the loan of the reserved book in:
- 7 working days for 30-day or 60-day loanable books
- 4 working days for 15-day loanable books