Yes, all the public computers include access to the Internet and you may use them for email.

The charge for copying is ten cents per copy. Most machines require a Cardinal Card or a Visitor's Cardinal Card.

• Art Library: Photocopier located by Circulation Desk. Art also has 11"x17", as well as enlarge/reduce capabilities.
• Ekstrom Library:
  • Lower Level: Special Collections provides copies from their resources ($.25 per copy). Copies are done by the staff.
  • Main floor: Two copiers are available - one is across from the Reference Desk, one is next to the CopyIT Center desk (this one takes change)
  • 2nd floor: Located in the Media and Current Periodicals Department, by the current periodical shelves.
  • 3rd floor: Located in Room 309 on the north side of the building, close to the Bound Periodicals.
• Kornhauser Health Sciences Library: There are 5 photocopy machines in the Reference area on the 2nd floor. Two of these machines accept only the Cardinal Card; two machines accept only the old department Copicards; and, one copier accepts either coins or the old gray Single card.
• Law Library: Copiers are on 1st floor, Basement and the 2nd floor.
• Music Library: Photocopier located in 3rd floor Copier Room (360D).

High quality laser prints are available from public computers in the libraries. If you are printing regular html pages, use the browser's print to send the page to the printer. (If you are printing a .pdf file make sure to use the .pdf reader's print button - not the browser's print button.) The computer will ask you three questions to help you identify your job when you go to the print station. Go to the nearest print station, swipe your Cardinal Card in the card reader at the top of the computer's keyboard, choose your print job by clicking on it, type in your password, and hit the print button.

• Cardinal Cards (the official UofL ID) are required for printing from the computers and for using most photocopiers.
• Add money to a Cardinal Card at:
  • Art Library: vend station by circulation desk
  • Ekstrom Library: 1st floor or Photocopy Room, 3rd floor.
  • Kornhauser Health Sciences Library: vend station on 2nd floor, near elevator.
  • Law Library: vend station in front of circulation desk.
  • Music Library: Photocopy Room, third floor.
• Visitors can purchase a Cardinal card from any vend station for $2.00.

Copyright is important! Please be aware of the copyright law that is posted on all of the photocopiers in the building:
NOTICE: WARNING CONCERNING COPYRIGHT RESTRICTIONS -- The Copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement. This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its judgement, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of copyright law.

Visit the main service desk (usually the check-out desk) to report or claim a lost or stolen item.

Restrooms are available on each floor of the Libraries. For specific locations, ask at the nearest service desk.

Campus phones are available in all Libraries. Ask at the nearest service desk for specific locations. Courtesy phones are free for local and campus calls and are available at the Ekstrom and Kornhauser Libraries.

Your UofL identification card (Cardinal Card) will serve as your library card. It must be validated for the current semester. The Cardinal Card office is in the Houchens Building, Rm 08K. Non-UofL people may apply at the Circulation Desk for borrowing privileges.

As long as none are overdue, a student may borrow a grand total of 99 items.

Each library has a circulation desk where there are assistants to check out your books.

That depends on your status. In general, UofL students may borrow items for 28 days. Graduate students are eligible for a 120-day loan period. Faculty and staff may also borrow items for 120 days. However, there are exceptions to this rule. Many libraries have certain parts of the collection that may circulate for a shorter period of time, or not at all.

Some of the exceptions include:

Reference materials and government publications do not circulate.

Periodicals do not circulate, except at Kornhauser Library.

Art Library books circulate for 28 days only to graduate students in the Fine Arts department, the Theatre Arts department, the Humanities Doctoral program, and the Expressive Therapies program.

Materials in Rare Books, Photographic Archives, and University Archives do not circulate.

Books in Ekstrom Library Browsing Collection may be borrowed for 14 days.

Media materials (recordings, videocassettes, microforms, etc.) may be checked out in some libraries. Ask at the nearest service desk.

See also the Borrowing Privileges page.

Every library has a designated place for returning materials, usually near the circulation desk. If it is after hours, all circulating libraries have a book drop.

Each library has its own policy for lost items. Check with the circulation department of the library where you checked out the item.

Fines can be paid at the Circulation Desk of the library where you checked out the item. Call for more information.

• Art Library: 852-6741
• Ekstrom Library: 852-8746
• Kornhauser Health Sciences Library: 852-5771
• Law Library: 852-6392
• Music Library: 852-5659
• University Archives & Records Center: n/a

Investigation and exchanging information often requires conversation so some areas of the library will be noisy. Study carrels or the glassed in group study rooms might be quieter locations. In Ekstrom Library the third and fourth floors are designated as Quiet Study Areas. In other libraries, ask at one of the service desks for help in locating the best study spots.

Since we are an academic library, it would not make sense for us to have this kind of system. For example, someone wanting to read and research a particular author of fiction can go to the same section in Ekstrom and get books by and books about that author.

The Dewey Decimal system that many people are familiar with is good organizational system, but it does not meet the needs of an academic library with 1.7 million volumes. The Dewey Decimal numbers would have to be very, very long in order to be unique. The alpha-numeric Library of Congress system (combinations of letters and numbers) is used by almost every university library in the United States.

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