—A Summary

The Claremont Colleges libraries' holdings include over 1.8 million volumes and some 6,000 periodical subscriptions. Honnold/Mudd is a depository for publications issued by the United States government, the State of California, the United Nations, and other international agencies. These materials have a short loan period. Each library also maintains special collections.

Each college issues identification cards to its faculty. This card must be taken to one of the libraries to activate borrowing privileges. The card must be presented when borrowing material from any of the four libraries. A complementary borrowing card can be issued to spouses of faculty and to their sons and daughters between the ages of 16 and 22.

Faculty have an annual loan period with an April due date, but are asked to return materials as they finish using them. At the due date, all items which are still needed and have not been recalled may be renewed.

Bound periodicals are primarily intended for in-library use but may be borrowed for a 3-day period by faculty. At Honnold/Mudd unbound periodicals generally are for use only in the library. However, a reference librarian may approve a special 2-hour checkout upon faculty request. Policies at the campus libraries may vary.

Materials such as library books and articles from periodicals may be placed on Reserve for classes. This service is available in each of the four libraries. Reserve provides various loan periods: 2-hour, 4-hour (at Sprague Library only), 2-day and 7-day. To place items on Reserve, pick up a requisition form from the Reserve desk. You may include new book orders on the list. Forms should be completed and returned to the department well before the semester begins and class assignments are made. We also have an electronic reserve system for making reserve material (handouts, notes, homework assignments, journal articles, etc.) available via the World Wide Web. For more information, these are the contacts, by library:

• Honnold/Mudd: Pamela Martin, ext. 18372
• Denison: Cara Barker, ext. 73942
• Sprague: Patrick Rogers, ext. 77436
• Seeley G. Mudd: Bruce Taylor, ext. 73492

Faculty may request Research Assistant (RA) borrowing cards from the Honnold/Mudd Circulation desk.

Honnold/Mudd Library reserves 25 faculty study carrels for use by faculty of The Claremont Colleges. Each carrel is semi-private and is designed to serve faculty who are working on projects that entail extensive library research. Applications are available at the Circulation Department.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a service provided for faculty, staff and students of The Claremont Colleges. Located in Honnold, ILL will borrow materials not available in our collections from other libraries or from the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago.

Electronic resources include The Claremont Colleges online catalog, BLAIS; web and online databases; CDROM databases; University of California's MELVYL; UnCover, a periodicals table of contents service. The Research section of the Libraries Web Site has a complete listing of the resources available for Claremont Colleges students, faculty and staff. BLAIS also includes holdings from two affiliate institutions -- the Claremont School of Theology (CST) and Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden (RSA) -- as well as the Center for Research Libraries.

Reference librarians in each of the libraries can provide advice on locating and using both print and electronic information sources. Tours and instruction for groups and individuals can be scheduled by Reference staff in each of the libraries. Recommendations for book or periodical orders may be placed at any of The Libraries. A list of subject bibliographers is available on The Libraries Web Site or you contact the Honnold/Mudd Information Desk at ext. 18150. If an item is intended for Reserve, the course number and instructor's name must be included with the request. Queries on the status of any request for materials or on any general ordering procedures must be addressed to the reference librarians. Information on the current status of book funds may be obtained from the subject bibliographers.