Borrowing privileges

Students, faculty, and staff of the University of St. Thomas and other CLIC consortium schools (Augsburg, Bethel, Bethel Seminary, Concordia, Hamline, Hamline Law, Macalester, Northwestern College, St. Catherine's), and St. Thomas alumni are allowed to borrow circulating books from this library.

Although members of the community may use the library resources, they cannot check books out. Periodicals and reference materials do not circulate. All patrons must present their valid UST or CLIC I.D. (or UST alumni borrower's card) to check out books.

Books are checked out to students and alumni for six weeks; faculty and staff  may keep books for the term. A book can be recalled by the library after three weeks if requested by another patron.

IMPORTANT: Our borrowers are responsible for all material checked out on their cards. Overdue notices are sent to your UST e-mail account.  You will be assessed sizable replacement and other fees/fines when books checked out to you are declared lost. Also, your borrowing privileges can be endangered. (Charges may be significantly reduced if lost items are safely returned.)
 
For more information on this topic or for a more detailed listing of the user populations we serve and the services provided for each unique population, please consult our borrowing privileges web site.

Materials from other libraries

Obtaining books from other libraries

• Students, faculty, and staff have borrowing privileges at the CLIC consortium libraries, therefore, you may travel to these libraries and present your UST I.D. to check out books.
• Books from other CLIC libraries, including other UST libraries, can also be requested electronically through CLICNet.  It typically takes a couple of business days to transfer books between CLIC libraries.
• If the book you want is NOT in CLICNet, you can fill out a web-based interlibrary loan form to expedite your book request.

Obtaining periodicals from other libraries

• Articles can be obtained by visiting the library in person, periodicals do not circulate.
• If the periodical title is NOT owned by UST, current students, faculty, and staff may submit their article request using a web-based interlibrary loan form.

Reserve Materials

Faculty may place materials on reserve for use by their students. For more information, please visit our print and electronic reserve materials web site.  For more information about reserves, please consult Randall Van Meter  at (651) 962-4643 or rkvanmeter@stthomas.edu.
 

Book/periodical orders

Anyone may suggest books or suggest periodicals to be purchased for the collection. Please keep in mind that the Keffer collection is primarily designed to support the curriculum of our graduate programs in business, education, and psychology.
 
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