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Library Borrowing Privileges

 

Material

Borrowing Levels

Fines

  Faculty, staff and graduate students Undergraduate students Community  
Books 6 months, 5 renewals 28 days, 2 renewals 28 days, 1 renewal $0.25 per day
DVDs and CDs 7 days, renewal on CDs only 7 days, renewal on CDs only 4 hours onsite $1.00 per day
Course reserve materials
varies
4 hours onsite $1.00 per hour

Laptops and headphones

4 hours, no renewal

not available Laptops: $10.00 per hour. Headphones: $1.00 per hour

Nooks, Kindles and digital cameras

7 days, no renewal

not available $25.00 per day

iPads

3 days, no renewal

not available $25.00 per day

RamBikes

1 day, 1 renewal

not available $25.00 per day

Full list of borrowing privileges

Items lost from VCU Libraries will be assessed a minimum replacement fee ($80.00 for books from the collection at James Branch Cabell Library; $150.00 for books from the collection at Tompkins-McCaw Library) plus a $10 non-refundable lost item processing fee. Equipment, items from the media collection, and materials which are rare or valuable may be assessed a higher replacement fee.

Borrowing Levels

  • Faculty, Staff and Graduate Students

VCU faculty, preceptors, members of the VCU Board of Visitors, members of the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia, postdoctoral students, VCU faculty spouses/partners, and faculty at OCLC institutions, as well as graduate students, university staff and health system employees.

  • Undergraduate Students

Undergraduate students only.

  • Community Borrowers

VCU Friends of the Library, staff at the Virginia BioTechnology Research Park (BioTech Park), members of Richmond Academic Library Consortium, high school students in the greater Richmond area, and conference attendees.

Interlibrary loan information

Fees for ILL service