Students requesting a carrel must fill out the Carrel Request Form
(available at the Circulation Desk), including their name, their
address, the requested carrel number, the date and the signature of an
Alma College Professor. Once the form has been turned in to the
circulation desk, the library staff will process the request and notify
the patron of his/her carrel assignment. If the requested carrel is not
available, the library staff will assign a carrel in a nearby location.
Carrel assignments are generally made on a first-come, first-served
basis.
A. Checking out materials to carrels
1. Books may be checked out to a carrel for the regular 3 week loan
period. Single issue periodicals may be checked out to a carrel for the
regular 2 day loan period. After this time they will be considered
overdue unless renewed (single issue periodicals cannot be renewed).
Overdue charges accrue as with materials checked out normally.
2. To check out items to carrels, take them to the Circulation Desk. A green slip with the due date, item title, call number, and your carrel number will be placed in each item. Be sure that this slip stays with the item and that the top portion can be readily seen. This green slip shows the library staff that the item is checked out to your carrel and should not be reshelved by the library's student assistants. Also, the materials checked out to your carrel will not be desensitized, so that they cannot be taken out of the library.
3. To take these materials out of the library, bring them back to the Circulation Desk. The items will be desensitized and the green carrel check-out slip will be removed. To return these items to your carrel, be sure to have the circulation staff resensitize them and to fill out a new green check-out slip.
4. You may not take items checked out to someone else's carrel out of the library.
5. Any library materials found in your carrel that are not properly checked out will be removed.
B. Other types of materials
Reference books, bound periodicals, records, microfilm, Closed Collection materials, videos, VCRs, lap top computers and CDs may not be checked out to carrels. If they are found in your carrel, they will be removed.
C. Miscellaneous policies
1. No Tobacco
No Food
No Drinks (except in hard plastic containers with screw-on or snap-on lids)
2. The library is not responsible for personal items left in carrels.
3. Your carrel may be used by other library patrons when you are not using it. When you are not present, please keep materials stacked and piled neatly. Loose papers on the desk top may be thrown out by library staff.
4. Obscene or unlawful materials cannot be left on display in your carrel. These
items will be removed by the library staff.
5. All materials left in your carrel after the last day of exams will be removed.
Revised August 2004.
