Borrowing Privileges for Central Library of The University

Category	Number of books	Loan period
All regular teaching staff	10	30 Days
Visiting/Guest/Temporary Faculty	2	30 Days
Research Scholars (Ph.D. )	4	15 days
Post-Graduate students	4	15 days
Non-teaching Staff	2	15 days

 

• An overdue charge of Rs. 2.00 per day per volume will be collected for returning the books after the due date borrowed by them. Overdue charges policy is to be decided by the Library Advisory committee of the respective Institute.
• Member shall check the physical condition of the book while borrowing from the library. In case any thing missing, pages torn it should be reported to the counter immediately.
• Member shall not borrow defective / damaged books.
• The Loan period may be shortened by the librarian if the books are on special demand.
• A member can reserve a book which is issued to other member. The reservation can be done online in the OPAC system.
• The Librarian reserves the right to recall any books from any member at any time.
• Transfer of Books is not permissible
• Loss of book should be immediately reported to the Circulation counter in writing to avoid fine.
• Taking No-Dues from Library is mandatory to all the members.

Library Memberships

Regular Members

• The library is primarily for the use of faculty, research scholars, students, and non-teaching employees of the university.
• Whenever a member leaves/retires he/she has to obtain a “No Dues Certificate” from the university library and respective library where he/she is a member.
• Faculty and research scholars should also submit the declaration in prescribed form that they do not have project books with them. The form can be obtained from the circulation counter in the library (Appendix).

Institutional Membership

Corporate /Industrial and Research Organizations Can Become Institutional Member By Paying The Following Fees-

• Institutional members are permitted to refer library print resources and avail photocopy facilities. They are permitted to use electronic resources, subscribed by the university only in the university campus.
• Institutional membership fee = Rs.10,000/- per year(non refundable) and Rs. 5000/- as library deposit (refundable).
• Payment should be made through a bank draft drawn in favour of “SIU “symbiosis international university Library membership card will be issued in the name of the organization.
• Visiting members should present institutional id card issued by the library along with photo-id card issued by their organization for security/verification purposes.
• Such members should report the loss of institutional id card issued by the SIU central library immediately, if any, to the circulation counter, to avoid misuse.

Books Not for Circulation

Reference Books, Serial Publications, Reserve Books, Thesis & Dissertations, CD/DVD, Loose issues & Bound volumes of periodicals, special collection books. However this material will be accessible within the library.

Loss of Books

• Loss of book by the borrower should be reported to the Circulation counter immediately to avoid misuse and fine.
• Further, the borrower shall either replace the same copy of the book or its latest edition within 15 days or pay the current cost of the book latest edition.
• If the book is from multi volume set is damaged or lost, the member shall be liable to replace the whole set or pay 4 times the cost of the volume lost by member if the single volume is not available.