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Library Rules
General Rules
Loan Rules & Loan  Entitlement of Library Members
Academic Exercises & Theses
Inter-library Loans
Fee-based Services for Corporate Members
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Loan Entitlement of Library Members

Categories Students Staff External
Under-
graduate		 Honours  & Graduate
students		 Academic and Admin/
Professional Staff		 Non-
Academic		 Personal Members Corporate Members
Loan Entitlement 10 books 15 books 40 books 10 books 6 books 10 books
Online Renewals 2 times 2 times 5 times 2 times 2 times(one renewal for Law Books) 2 times(one renewal for Law Books)
LOAN PERIOD FOR:
Main Shelves Books 14 days 28 days 28 days 14 days 14 days (Not applicable in C J Koh Law Library), please see note below**) 28 days(Not applicable in C J Koh Law Library), please see note below**)
Compact Disks & Diskettes accompanying main shelves books 14 days 28 days 28 days 14 days 14 days (Not applicable in C J Koh Law Library) please see note below**) 28 days(Not applicable in C J Koh Law Library) please see note below**)
RBR books 
(1 book at a time)		 2 hours/ overnight 2 hours/ overnight 2 hours/ overnight no loan no loan no loan
Bound periodicals & Special Law Library materials 1 day (Not applicable in C J Koh Law Library & Medical Library) 1 day (Not applicable in C J Koh Law Library & Medical Library) 3 days 3 days (Not applicable in C J Koh Law Library & Medical Library) no loan no loan
Carrels are available for graduate students and academic staff. Loan period varies from library to library.
** for closed stacks periodicals, NUS academic staff are allowed one online renewal. 
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Membership Category Loan Period
Personal external members 1 week
Corporate member 2 weeks

Loan entitlement of Part-time Staff

  1. Part-time staff, e.g. part-time lecturers, may each loan a total of 15 books; all other loan privileges follow those of academic staff.
  2. Part-time tutors may borrow according to the loan privileges of higher degree students.
  3. Part-time teachers in the Office of Continuing Education may apply to the Loans and Membership Services to use the Library with the same loan privileges as external personal members.

Materials for use in the Library

The following categories of materials are only for use in the Library:

  1. Current periodicals
  2. Reference materials, including reference books, press clippings, standards, compact discs, theses & academic exercises
  3. Singapore/Malaysia Collection materials 
  4. Microforms
  5. Media programmes 

Please note that:

Certain library materials and facilities may only be accessed by NUS students and staff.

Forms to request many library services are available at www.lib.nus.edu.sg
Click LOGIN then E-Forms

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Content by: NUS Libraries
Last updated: 14-01-2008