If you have any questions, please contact the librarians at library@alverno.edu.
Textbooks Collection (Course Reserves)
3 Day Loan Period
No Renewals
$2/Day Overdue Fines
- Course reserve items, including textbooks, fiction, DVDs, and other physical materials assigned in active courses are available to students for a 3 day loan period.
- Faculty, staff, community members, and students on leave cannot check out these items.
- Course reserve items cannot leave the Help Desk unless they are checked out to a student, even if the student only plans to use the item in the Library.
- As these items are assigned in courses, they must be available to as many students in the course as possible.
- Course reserve items cannot be renewed under any circumstances.
- After returning a course reserve item, the patron's account will not allow the item to be checked out again for one hour, allowing other students in the course the opportunity to check out the book. This lock cannot be overridden.
- Course reserve items accrue overdue fines at a rate of $2.00 per day.
- The replacement fee for every lost or damaged course reserve item is $100. Replacement copies with an identical ISBN can sometimes be purchased in lieu of paying this fee, but must always be arranged in advance by contacting the librarians at library@alverno.edu.
- To see which items are currently on reserve, search TOPCAT by course number or instructor name.
Other Library Collections
End of Term Loans
No Renewals
No Overdue Fines
- Items in the Library's Teaching Materials Collection, Picture Books, YA & Adult Fiction, Music Scores Collection, Disc Cabinet, and Stacks locations have a loan period until the end of term.
- Since these items circulate for up to 4 months at a time, no renewals are allowed.
- Items in these collections can be placed on hold using TOPCAT. If a hold is placed on an item that is already checked out, the patron who has the item will be given 21 days to return it for the patron who has requested it. Once the item is returned, it will immediately be placed on the hold shelf for the requester.
- These items do not accrue overdue fines, but do still accrue a $100 replacement fee if an item is lost, stolen, or damaged. The lost item fee will automatically be waived if the item is returned.
Equipment Policies
28 Day Initial Loans
3 Renewals Maximum
No Overdue Fines
- All equipment has an initial standard loan period of 28 days with a maximum of three renewals.
- Most equipment can be checked out to Alverno students, staff, and faculty. Photo ID is required.
- Laptops are only available to actively enrolled students of Alverno College with no exceptions. Employees in need of a loaner laptop should contact Technology Services.
- Community patrons, including alumni, are not able to check out equipment.
- Although we do not charge a daily overdue fine for equipment, these items are marked "Lost" immediately if not returned on the due date. Lost items incur an item
replacement fee based on the current price of the same or comparable equipment.
- Item replacement fees are automatically waived if the item is returned undamaged.
- If an item cannot be returned on time due to extenuating circumstances, please contact the librarians at library@alverno.edu.
- Patrons with more than $20 in fines on their account cannot check out equipment until their balance is paid off.
- All equipment must be picked up from and returned to the Library Help Desk.
- We are unable to ship items directly to patrons or to the Mesa campus.
- Equipment will not be considered returned until a library employee has checked it in.
- Patrons are responsible for paying the replacement cost of items that are not returned to an employee and are lost, stolen, or damaged.
- The Library's book drops are not secure locations to return equipment. If equipment must be returned outside of the Library's hours, please contact the librarians at library@alverno.edu to arrange this in advance.
General Library Policies
Patron Privacy Policies
Alverno College Library understands that borrowing history, research help questions, and other library use data may contain sensitive information about our patrons. Confidentiality of patron information is a core tenet of librarianship and we take this professional obligation seriously. Identifying patron information is stored securely within Library systems that cannot be accessed by others at the college except in cases the patron has agreed to (such as using Interlibrary Loan to borrow a book from another institution.) More information about the types of data we collect and how this data is used can be found below.
