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Find out how to borrow, renew, return, and request the material you need.

Borrowing Privileges

Circulation Books

USERITEM LIMIT*LOAN PERIOD
Undergraduate Students5 items2 weeks
Graduate Students10 items2 weeks
Faculty10 items1 month
Staff10 items2 weeks
*borrowed from all UPLB Libraries

Course Reserves

USERITEM LIMITLOAN PERIOD
Undergraduate Students2 itemOvernight
Graduate Students2 itemOvernight
Faculty2 itemsOvernight**
Staff2 itemsOvernight**
**Loan period for CEM faculty and staff can be arranged depending on the availability of materials

Renewal

  • Renewal for course-reserved books is not allowed.
  • You can renew circulation books up to three times if no one else has reserved them.
    • Renewals are in-person only, with the reserve material in hand.
    • Items requested by another user to be held cannot be renewed. Holds on items do not shorten the due date, but they do prevent the item from being renewed. Return the item to the library by the due date. If you need to use the item again, you can request a hold be placed for you. Speak to a staff member at the circulation desk.

Placing an item on hold via KOHA.

Placing a Hold on a book is a service to enables you to obtain library material currently checked out to someone else. Simply put, it is like reserving the material for you once it is returned or you are in line in case multiple people place it on hold. Read more.