Library Information and Rules

While we try to showcase the best of anime in our weekly screenings, there's a lot more good stuff out there than we can possibly show. Therefore, we also maintain a large collection of anime in our circulating library: members in good standing with a security deposit on file can check out tapes and discs to watch on their own time and according to their own tastes.

NOTE: In order to streamline our showings, we will not be accepting last-minute library requests at the beginning of the evening. You must put in your request by email ahead of time (no later than 5pm on the night of the showing) or in writing at the previous week's showing.

To accommodate people who can't make it to showings regularly, we will be holding office hours. Feel free to drop by our room in Walker, 50-356, to return or check out tapes at the times listed above. We're not really set up for browsing, though, so checking the catalogs ahead of time is a good idea.

• You may check out items if you are a current member of the club and have a $10 refundable security deposit on file.
• You may borrow up to: three subtitled tapes, three CD-ROMs, two unsubtitled tapes, two DVDs, two audio CDs, one audio cassette, and two miscellaneous items. This is the maximum number of items you may have checked out at any given time, rather than the number you may check out every week.
• Items are due back in 18 days (two and a half weeks). A $1 late fee is charged per item per week or fraction thereof over that limit. You may turn them in early if you wish in order to check out new material. You will not be allowed to check out additional items if you have overdue items checked out.
• If you lose, break, scratch, demagnetize, or otherwise render a title uncirculatable, you will be held responsible for the replacement cost of the title.
• For checkouts at showings, items are handed out during intermissions. You must be present to claim them. If possible, please return items at the beginning of the evening to allow us to give them to someone else at the intermission.
• To request items to pick up at showings, please e-mail the librarian at at least one day before the showing.
• You should request more items than you expect to get, and even more if you are requesting popular series. List them in priority order, and we will do our best to give you the highest-ranking titles that aren't in conflict with other people's requests.
• By default, we won't give you things out of order. (That is, if you request Evangelion volumes 1, 2, and 3, you'll get 1, or 1 and 2, or 1 and 2 and 3, but never just 3 by itself.) If you would rather get any ones you can without regard to order, make a note in your request.
• Use the item ID numbers in your request, and please don't bother requesting things that don't appear on the lists: if it isn't there, it simply isn't available this week.
• You don't need to send in a request if you come to office hours to check out anime. It's a good idea to bring your list with you, though, since it will help you make your selections more quickly.

Last modified: Mon Jun 16 12:18:40 EDT 2008 by Stephen McCamant
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