Requests to borrow or consult books and/or publications need to be submitted directly through the UCSC OPAC, also using the pc points located in the room of the Central Circulation Desk, in the hall of the Central Library and in the Milan campus branch libraries.

For proceeding the loan request, you must authenticate by entering the institutional login (more info: How to authenticate for Library services).

The Library loaning service does not apply to:

• books held in the 'Giuseppe Billanovich Reference Room' and the institutes
• journals
• publications dated before 1950, rare and prestigious works, in folio volumes, national editions of the classics
• books in special funds and special libraries
• UCSC theses and dissertations

Any person who fails to return a book borrowed or taken for daily consultation, or who returns it damaged, will be liable for its replacement with another intact edition. Should that not be possible, the responsible party will be obliged to reimburse the Library the current price of the work or works in question.

Books picking-up

Normally, volumes can be picked-up about 20 minutes after the request has been sent. The time and place of pick-up will be specified in the e-mail which the Library will send to the applicant's institutional address (@icatt.it or @unicatt.it) confirming that pick-up is possible.

The status of your request can be checked at any time on your personal My Library page.

The loan is personal, however, the pick-up of volumes can be delegated to a person other than the applicant. The person delegated to collect the books must

• present a valid identity document with photograph
• present the delegating person's university ID (or the document of admission to the Library services)
• submit the form "Authorisation for withdrawal of items on loan" (downloadable from the page Modulistica), filled in and signed by the delegator.

Books returning

The user is required to return the volumes received:

• within 30 days, in the case of books available for monthly loan
• within 7 days for books available on short loan
• on the same day, before the closing time of the Library, if the books are available for consultation only

The expiration dates of current loans can be checked at any time in your personal My Library page.

You can also get a 15-day extension of the loan for the volumes already borrowed, if they have not already been submitted to the Library reservations by other users. The extension must be requested within 5 days prior to the expiration of the loan already active, through My Library, via e-mail or by telephone.

The return of volumes can also be carried out by another delegated person.

Delay in returning any volume will result in suspension of services.

Multimedia materials on DVD are also available for loan (except for the works produced in the last two years), as follows:

• for students = 1 day (between Monday and Friday) or 4 days (from Friday until Monday)
• for teachers = up to 1 week

Borrowing and consulting rules for internal users

With their UCSC personal account credentials (i.e. iCatt/Blackboard/Intranet username and password), UCSC users can:

• take out a maximum of 10 volumes per day for consultation
• borrow a maximum of 8 works at the same time

Borrowing and consulting rules for external users

The Library extends its consultation and loaning service for the purposes of research and professional development to those who are not current member of the UCSC.
External users can apply for consultation-only permits or loan & consultation membership cards at the Bibliopoint, the central information desk located in the hall of Central Library (Gregorianum building, ground floor).

Consultation of current issues of periodicals, daily and weekly newspapers

Issues of current years of periodicals, before being bound at the end of the year, are available in the following ways:

• periodicals from the humanities, linguistics and law subject areas: they should be requested and picked up at the desk in the "Giuseppe Billanovich" Reference Room
• periodicals of Economic, Statistical and Mathematical Sciences and Humanities (sociology, psychology, pedagogy): should be requested and picked up at the desks of the branch libraries next the respective Institutes and Departments
   

The most recent issues of Italian and international daily and weekly newspapers are available to users in a reserved reading area at the Central point of book distribution.

UCSC inter-campus service

A special service also allows to request books, articles photocopies or parts of volumes which, after a search in the UCSC OPAC, are only held in a UCSC Library other than your own:

     > UCSC inter-campus requests