Your Clemson University ID is your library card

Check out periods

Faculty and staff may have 300 items at a time checked out.

To find out if the library has a book, journal, CD, DVD, or other item, check the online catalog.

If an item is listed in the catalog as IN PROCESS, use the In Process Request Form to have it cataloged and held for you at the Circulation Desk. When it has been cataloged, it will be delivered to you. (Do NOT use for items listed as On Order or In Pre-Order Process.)

Bring items for checkout to the Circulation Desk in Cooper Library or the Architecture Library.

View a checkout list

You can access your library account online. You can view the items you currently have checked out and their due dates.

 

Online book checkout

Request that books be checked out and delivered to you. (Journals must be checked out in-person.)

In-person

Bring materials to the Circulation Desk in Cooper Library or the Architecture Library for renewal, or just your Tiger One card. It is not necessary to have your books with you to have them renewed!

 

Online renewals

Renew books online from My Library Account.

If a book is checked-out, you may request a recall/hold using My Library Account. Log in, search the catalog for the item you you want to recall or hold, then click on the hold/recall button. The patron who has it is guaranteed two weeks, but must then return it. You will be notified when it is available. All books are subject to recall.

If you do not return a recalled item by the specified date, you will not be able to check out or recall anything else.

Holds can be submitted on Popular Reading items and books that are due in less than two weeks. When a book is placed on hold, the person who has it charged out cannot renew it. When the book is returned, it is then held for the next person on the hold list.

Please note that recall requests take precedence over hold requests.

In the library

Return materials to the Circulation Desk in Cooper Library or the Architecture Library.

 

Book drops

Cooper Library parking lots

Outside the Architecture Library in Lee Hall
At the Hendrix Student Center
Outside the Holmes building

Request material pick-up

Notify the Libraries online that items you have checked out are ready to be picked up from your department office or mail room (you may also call 656-5186).

If you lose or damage a library item, you will be billed the cost of the item ($75 average) plus the overdue fines (25¢ per day per item) and the processing fee ($25). You will receive a bill for any material that is 45 days overdue. If the item is found within six months, you will be reimbursed the fees but not any overdue fines.

If you replace a lost or damaged item, you will only be billed $8 plus any overdue fines. If you have questions about how to replace an item, please contact the Circulation Desk in Cooper Library (864) 656-1557 or the Architecture Library (864) 656-3393.

Outstanding bills are submitted to a collection agency. Additional fees or charges may be assessed.

If you have questions about Cooper Library materials, fines or fees, please contact the Circulation desk at 864-656-1557. For questions involving Media fines please call the Media Desk at 864-656-0402. You may also contact the Architecture desk at 864-656-3933 concerning Architecture Library materials.

If an item appears to be missing from the collection, send a Cooper Library Search Request or an Architecture Library Search Request or come by the Circulation Desk. We will search for it and notify you when we find it. If we can't find it, you can submit an Interlibrary Loan request for the missing book or article.

Use Interlibrary Loan to obtain a book or journal article not available in the Clemson University Libraries.

Requested books will be delivered to your department and photocopies of requested articles will be mailed to you.

If you prefer to pick up items at the Circulation Desk in Cooper Library, indicate this on the request form and you will be notified when they are available for pickup.

Where?

Most South Carolina public and private colleges and universities
Many universities and colleges nationwide

 

How?

Get a borrower's card or a permission letter at the Circulation Desk in Cooper Library or the Architecture Library. Distance education students should contact Fredda Mealor, Cooper Library, (864) 656-4499 or Christopher Chapman, Architecture Library, (864) 656-3933.

You may request a photocopy of an article in a journal owned by the library. There is a 10¢ per page fee.

If you want your research or teaching assistants to check out materials in your name, request a "proxy card" for the student. Send the request on departmental letterhead stationery to Cooper Library Circulation Desk, including the student's name and ID number, your name and ID number and the term (fall, spring, etc.) or use the online request form. You are responsible for all material checked out using the proxy card and will be billed for any material charged to the proxy card and not returned.

The Confidential Library Records Act (South Carolina Code of Law 60-4-10) that was passed by the South Carolina Legislature and signed by the Governor on May 22, 1985 states that it is unlawful to disclose Library records "which by themselves or when examined with other public records would reveal the identity of the library patron checking out or requesting an item from the library or using other library services..."

However the records of library materials you borrow or use can be disclosed:

• to persons acting within the scope of their duties in the administration of the library or library system
• persons authorized, in writing, by the library patron to inspect their personal records
• in accordance with proper judicial order
• in compliance with the USA PATRIOT (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism) Act of 2001 (PL 107-56) regarding terrorist activities

Room Reservations

Reserve a room in Cooper Library for groups of 5 or more people with this form.

Library Purchase Request

If you would like to suggest that the Libraries purchase an item (book, journal, CD, DVD, etc.),
please contact the subject librarian for the appropriate subject area.

Please contact Fredda Mealor, Cooper Library, (864) 656-4499, or Christopher Chapman, Architecture Library, (864) 656-3934.