Using the Library

To check out materials, all CUA or WRLC students, faculty and staff must present a valid school I.D. card. All CUA patrons must visit Mullen Library Access Services to register their I.D. cards before they may check out books in campus libraries.
Regular monographs from Physics may be checked out for the following time periods:
- undergraduate : 4 weeks
- graduate : until the end of the semester
- faculty : one year
Periodicals may be checked out of the library for two hours.
See myALADIN for information about renewing materials online.
For more detailed information about Borrowing Privileges and Circulation see http://libraries.cua.edu/access/circsvcs.html.

Patrons who do not return books by their due dates and time are assessed fines and fees. If a patron has overdue materials and/or excessive fines and fees, he/she may not check out any new materials until the overdue materials are returned and/or paid for.
Reserve, two-hour and seven-day loans have fines of 1 cent per minute.
Overdue fines for regular loans are $.25 a day. There is a three day grace period for books returned within this time frame; if a book is returned after that, the full $.25 per day must be paid.
Payment of fines and fees must be made at Access Services in Mullen Library.
For more detailed information about borrowing materials, visit the Access Services webpage at: http://libraries.cua.edu/access/circpriv.html

Reserve books are shelved behind the circulation desk.. To find a call number, consult the Course Reserves, or search the WRLC Libraries Catalog.
If you would like to borrow reserve materials from the library, you may check them out using your I.D. card, for a limited time period. However, some materials cannot be removed from the library.
Most reserve articles are located online and may be downloaded and printed from Blackboard (on the ALADIN webpage.) Your instructor will give you a password to access E-Reserves for your specific course.

CUA is a member of WRLC (Washington Research Library Consortium). CUA students faculty and staff may request delivery of articles and books from WRLC Libraries, using a valid library barcode, directly from the WRLC Libraries Catalog (accessible from the ALADIN webpage.)
Graduate students and faculty may request materials unavailable from the WRLC Libraries by filling out the Interlibrary Loan form on the web at: http://libraries.cua.edu/access/ill.html

To log on to myALADIN, you will need to enter your library barcode number and last name.
Log on to myALADIN (available from the ALADIN webpage) to : Renew books online, Track the status of consortium loan requests, View fines and fees, ...And more.

The Physics Library does not have a photocopier, however there is one in the Physics Department Office located in Hannan Hall for limited use.

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