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Eligibility
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Eligibility
Who?
(must be for MIT-related research) |
BLC borrowing |
Harvard borrowing+ |
Harvard Countway borrowing 4 |
Harvard Baker (no borrowing) 5 |
OCLC Reciprocal Faculty Borrowing Program |
| Undergraduates |
Yes |
No 2 |
No |
No |
No |
| --enrolled in Harvard class |
N/A |
Yes (through Harvard) |
No |
No |
No |
| Graduate students |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Faculty |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Research Staff |
Yes |
Yes 3 |
Yes |
No |
No |
| --Whitehead Institute |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
| Spouse/Dependents |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Staff |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| MIT Libraries Staff |
Yes 1 |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Alumni |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Visitors/P-Card |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
+ For Loeb Design Library, same criteria as for Harvard Borrowing.
1 For MIT-related research only.
2 Except for one-time, on-site use of a very specific item not otherwise
available through the BLC or ILB; through a letter
to Widener, signed by a librarian.
3 If they have an MIT ID (photo) they can get a
Harvard Card.
4 Countway cards can be applied for online or at the Hayden Service Desk.
5 MIT Sloan School students have free access with
MIT ID. MIT Doctoral students in other departments also have free
access, but must present a letter from the student's faculty advisor,
academic department headquarters, or the Registrar's Office &
MIT ID. Other MIT students may use Baker Library for $15 per day
with MIT ID.
BLC
Borrowing
Web
page: http://www.blc.org
BLC access for MIT patrons
MIT Patrons
MIT
patrons apply at any Divisional Library Service Desk (Barker,
Dewey, Hayden, Rotch)
Non-MIT
patrons from BLC Libraries must:
a)
Get the card from their library (i.e. a BU student gets the card
from BU).
b) Register with the Hayden Service desk.
Who
can have a BLC card?
BLC
cards are for RESEARCH purposes. (i.e. We cannot give them to people
just because another library is closer to their home or because
they like the looks of Tufts.)
If
the student is an undergraduate, please inquire as to what resource
the student needs (you might save them a wasted trip):
a)
The student may have missed something available here (esp. an on-line
source or ejournal).
b) The material may not be available at a BLC library.
c) The item might be checked out of the library to which the student
wants to go.
d) Some libraries are stronger than other in certain fields.
Steps
for issuing a card
Harvard
Borrowing
Harvard University Libraries
HOLLIS catalog
Harvard privileges for MIT patrons
Steps
for issuing a card:
Either
check their MIT ID or look them up in the Barton circulation system.
As a rule of thumb for research staff, if they have an MIT ID (photo)
they can get a Harvard Card (Whitehead people are usually more interested
in Countway).
Give
the patron:
- A blank Harvard form for the student to fill out and give back to you.
- An
information sheet about the Harvard card.
- The Harvard card form that the student will bring to Harvard.
To fill out the Harvard card form:
- Write
the patron's name in the space provided.
- Check off space "C" for visiting researcher & make
sure the patron knows to fill out section "C" on the reverse.
- Initial somewhere in the circular stamp on the reverse - that is
our way of telling Harvard that we approve the card!
- Give the student the intialed Harvard card form to bring to Harvard
- File the Harvard form filled out by the student.
Where
is the card good?
When
does the card expire?
- The cards expire every summer (for graduate students) & every year
(for faculty).
- The previous year's cards must be replaced with the
current year's; a new form must be filled out each year.
- New cards for the academic year are not issued until Harvard is ready- usually the last week in August
or the 1st week in September.
To
renew the card through the summer:
- Ask to see the MIT AND the Harvard photo IDs.
- Follow the steps for issuing a new Harvard card.
- Give the student a copy of the MIT summer privileges letter that they will bring to Harvard. These letters are distributed to Service Desks at the end of the spring semester.
How
to get more information:
- If
you have a policy question or question about resources, ask Georgiana or Theresa (Theresa is the MIT coordinator of the Harvard Widener/MIT
borrowing program).
OCLC Reciprocal
Borrowing
- Faculty
members are eligible to borrow books from over 160 participating
OCLC institutions. They must get a card from Document Services, which validates their MIT status. When this card is presented at a participating institution, the faculty member can register for borrowing privileges.
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