Library loan

Library loans can be allowed by showing a value identity document.

Students can ask to borrow a maximum of two volumes at once for a month.

Teachers and researchers can request a maximum of five volumes at once.

The external guests can request only a volume at once.

The director (or the authorised officer) can limit the time of library loans because of imperative needs of services.

If the user doesn’t return the volume that was borrowed without respecting the prescribed terms, a reminder of return will be sent automatically via email and contextually the user will be suspended for the use of library loans of the time equal to the days of delay.

The user who loses, damages or mutilates the material that was borrowed will be obligated to supply for the book repair or its replacement with another sample of the same edition or another sample of different edition with the equal completeness in case of unavailability. In the event of failure, the sanctions are the same for the failure to return. It is forbidden to give the volumes that were borrowed to others. Under any circumstances is the collective library loan allowed.

The following categories are excluded from the service of library loan:

• editions published before 1830, or rare editions;

• journals with loose-leafs or with bindings;

• general reference works like encyclopedias, dictionaries, bibliographical and catalogue repertory, volumes of works that are published constantly;

• material in a poor state of conservation;

• works that have an important part for the collections that depend on particular legal obligations;

• other material excluded with the purpose of avoiding limits to the internal consultation;

• flipchart works;

• both national and foreign official journals;

The art catalogues and illustrated volumes with insert plates are normally excluded from the library loans. Generally the indication of exclusion is stamped within the volume or marked by a yellow tag on the spine of the book.

Central Library E.R. Caianiello

Mode. To loan a book, the user has to:

1) verify the exact collocation of the book on the catalogue and fill out the form in every part;

2) replace it with the first paper of the form in the shelf after taking the book off the shelf;

3) show the remaining part of the form at the information desk for the loan procedures.

Library of scientific center

Mode. To loan a book, the user has to

1) verify the exact collocation of the book on the online catalogue and fill out the respective form in every part;

2) show the request at the information desk.

Consultation

The consultation of bibliography material is guaranteed to students, teachers, researchers, technical-administrative staff and whoever works for activities of teaching and researching in Ateneo, also temporarily; external users can also be admitted to the consultation.

The user who loses, damages or mutilates the material that was borrowed will be obligated to supply for the book repair or its replacement with another sample of the same edition or another sample of different edition with the equal completeness in case of unavailability. In the event of failure, the sanctions are the same for the failure to return.

The central library “E.R Caianiello” - in which there is the humanities area and also historical collection and donations from privates - consists of 600 seats and 25 seats for the online consultations of Collective Catalogue of Ateneo, which can be visible via web also outside and on mobiles. The library is structured with 16 rooms of reading in which 600000 volumes are collocated on open shelves, divided for areas and subjects , and two rooms for the consultations of periodicals.

Mode. The user can have direct access to the shelves and take the volumes that wants to consult; the access to some rooms has time limitations, while the consultations of volumes related to historical collection must be reserved.

To consult the bibliographical material the user has to

1. verify the exact collocation of the book on the online catalogue and fill out the specific form in its every part;
2. replace it with the first paper of the form after taking the book off the shelf, the user has to;
3. insert the book on its shelf and deliver the paper at Information Point after finishing the consultation of the book;

For the consultation of loose-leaf works or periodicals, a identity document must be shown to the staff.

In relation to periodical, the users have free access to the consultations of numbers of the current year, collocated in specific exhibitors and divided for disciplines. For the previous years and magazines that are not collocated on exhibitors, it is necessary to fill out the specific form on site and consult the material in the Periodical Fund. The past years newspapers can be consulted by booking.

The Library of scientific center collects library funds - yet relating to the libraries of Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Natural Science, Engineer and Pharmacy - constituted by monographical titles and previous-year newspapers. The collection (150.000 unità bibliografiche ca.) is collocated according to Dewey Decimal Classification (CDD) and flows into the Collective Catalogue in Ateneo, can be consulted via web also remotely and on mobiles.

The provided user-seat are 540, distributed in seven huge rooms of consultation.

Mode. To consult the desired bibliographical material, the user has to

1. Verify the exact collocation of the book on the online catalogue and fill out the specific form in its every part;
2. show the request at Central Desk;
3. regive the book to the staff after finishing the consultation.

The distribution of volumes consulted or borrowed happens to specific hours (generally after an half hour) reported to the audience with warnings.

For the consultation and the request of bibliographic material preserved in the Department libraries, it is necessary to refer to the relative structures.