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My Account
You can access your library records via the Jackson Library Catalog. Using the My Account link, you can look up information about the materials you have charged out, overdue items, unpaid fines and fees, and the status of hold or recall requests. You can renew items charged out in your name, if not requested by others; and place requests for offsite material and material charged out to other borrowers.
To log in you need to enter the last 10 digits of the barcode number of your Stanford ID, which is underlined and located right above the barcode on your ID.
Borrowing Rules
Jackson Library Borrowers must:
- Provide a valid identification card.
- Provide complete address and telephone number when registering for borrowing privileges; must also provide the library with updated information when necessary.
- Exercise borrowing privileges personally; the transfer of identification cards for use by others is a serious violation of library rules. However, after presenting a Stanford University Libraries Proxy Card, issued at the Green Library Privileges Desk, or a Jackson Library GSB Research Assistant Card, a proxy may borrow for a faculty member.
- Present charged-out library material to the attendant at the Circulation Desk for inspection when leaving the library.
- Not lend library material to another person.
- Return or renew library material on or before the due date.
- Return charged-out material in the appropriate slot at the Desk. Charged-out materials should not be left on counters, tables, or shelves. When the library is closed. The outside bookdrop located to the left of the library doors should be used.
- Be responsible for library material until it has been returned to the Jackson Library. We recommend that you return all material here. Other libraries may accept it, but it may not be returned to Jackson Library on time.
- Pay fines and other charges for library material as stipulated by library rules.
- Return all material when leaving the local area for an extended period of time so that it is available for use by your colleagues.
- Understand that all library material is subject to recall after two weeks, even if charged out for a longer period.
- Return all library material and pay all outstanding charges prior to your official date of departure.
- Please be aware that borrowing privileges may be revoked or suspended if abused by the borrower.
Loan Periods
Library Material |
Faculty and Staff Loan Period |
Student and Other Registered Borrowers Loan Period |
Doctoral Candidates and other Quarterly Borrowers Loan Period |
|---|---|---|---|
Circulating books |
Annually -- July 1 due date (subject to recall after 2 weeks) |
4 weeks (subject to recall after 2 weeks) |
Quarterly -- due the Friday of registration week of the following quarter (subject to recall after 2 weeks). At the end of Spring Quarter, all material borrowed on a quarterly basis must be returned to Jackson Library or brought in for renewal. |
Popular Business Books and Career Corner items |
2 weeks |
2 weeks |
2 weeks |
Corporate reports |
Four days |
Four days |
Four days |
Periodicals (except for the most recent issue) and newspapers |
Due within 24 hours of the time charged out. |
Overnight checkout: one hour prior to closing, due one hour after library opens the following day. |
Overnight checkout: one hour prior to closing, due one hour after library opens the following day. |
Most recent issue of periodicals, unbound newspapers, and microforms |
Checked out under special circumstances only, due within two hours. |
May be used in the library only |
May be used in the library only |
Videos* |
4 days |
4 days |
4 days |
Reference material |
May be used within the library only |
May be used within the library only |
May be used within the library only |
Reserve material |
One to two hours Overnight Charge Out of standard reserve items: one to two hours prior to closing, due one hour after library opens the following day. Some material may only be used in the library |
One to two hours Overnight Charge Out of standard reserve items: one to two hours prior to closing, due one hour after library opens the following day. Some material may only be used in the library |
One to two hours Overnight Charge Out of standard reserve items: one to two hours prior to closing, due one hour after library opens the following day. Some material may only be used in the library |
*Videos in Jackson Library- Archives Collection may only be charged out by Business School Faculty
Quarterly Borrowing for Doctoral Candidates
Quarterly borrowing privileges are available to doctoral students who have advanced to candidacy, as certified by the Doctoral Office. Quarterly borrowing privileges are governed by the same general borrowing rules and circulation policies as regular circulating material. The only exception is that circulating books and working papers may be borrowed on a quarterly basis. Please note that all borrowed material is subject to recall after two weeks.
Renewals and Renewal Limits
- Borrowers may call the Circulation Desk at 650.725.2055, send e-mail to jackson.library@gsb.Stanford.edu or use the My Account link in the Jackson Library Catalog to renew material. All material can be renewed three times unless it has been recalled for course reserve or another borrower. Once an item has been renewed three times, it must be returned to the library before it can be charged again.
- Reserve material may be renewed, provided no hold requests have been placed. All items must be brought to the Reserve Desk for renewal.
Recalls and Holds
- All material is subject to recall. If a charged-out item is needed in the library, a recall notice is sent to the borrower. The recall notice establishes a new due date for the item. Borrowers must return recalled material on or before the recall due date specified on the recall notice.
- customers who have a need for material which currently charged out can place either a hold or a recall against the charged item. Holds do not truncate the existing due date. Recalls for regularly circulating items may be placed at the Circulation Desk or via the Jackson Library Catalog's My Account link. Borrowers must return recalled material on or before the recall due date specified on the recall notice. All users are notified when recalled material is available at the Circulation Desk.
- Hold requests for circulating reserve material may be placed at the Reserve Desk. A hold request placed on a reserve item secures its use for the next borrower, provided the individual waits in the Reserve Reading Room and displays the hold card number which has been assigned. The hold priority is forfeited if the borrower is not in the Reserve Reading Room when the item becomes available. No advance reservations are accepted for reserve items. Hold requests do not carry over to the following day.
Overdue Fine Schedules
- Regularly circulating material: 20 cents per day; $6.00 maximum per item. If recalled: $1.00 per day; $25.00 maximum per item.
- Reserve materials and periodicals: $2.00 per hour for the first five hours, $5 per hour for each subsequent hour, $100.00 maximum per item.
Fines and Other Charges
Fines are assessed for violations of borrowing rules. In computing overdue fines, each day is counted, whether the library is open or not, since material may be returned via the book drop when the library is closed. A borrower is not exempt from the penalties for overdue material because of failure to receive an overdue reminder notice from the library. The due date is stamped in each charged-out item. If a charged-out item is requested by another user or needed in the library, a recall notice is sent to the borrower. The recall notice establishes a new due date for the library item. Only one overdue or recall notice is sent, and all notices are sent to the address on our on-line circulation system. Overdue and recalled material not returned will be declared lost, and the borrower will be billed according to the charges for lost material.
It is the responsibility of the borrower to report immediately when library material is lost, damaged, or mutilated by the borrower. Any item in these categories must be paid for at once or replaced by the borrower. A processing fee and accrued fines, if any, must also be paid, according to the charges for lost, damaged, or mutilated material.
Replacement Charges
- Charges for lost material: Borrowers will be charged $45.00 per item for the replacement of lost material, plus a processing fee of $25.00 per item, and accrued overdue fines, if any.
- Refunds for lost/ paid items found within a year: If material has been lost and paid for, and is later found and returned in good condition (together with the receipt for payment) within one year after payment was made for the material, the charges for replacement costs and processing for the item may be refunded. However, the paid overdue fines, if any, are non-refundable.
- Charges for damaged or mutilated material: If repair is possible, a $25.00 processing fee, plus accrued overdue fines, if any, are charged. If repair is not possible, the material is considered lost, and the charges for lost material apply.
- Replacement by the borrower: A borrower may replace lost, damaged, or mutilated material with a copy that is acceptable to the library. If the borrower intends to make the replacement, s/he must so advise the Circulation Department, preferably on the same day that the loss, damage, or mutilation is reported. The replacement copy must be submitted for acceptance to the Assistant Circulation Department Manager within sixty days of the date that the borrowed item was originally due, together with the processing fee ($25). If the replacement copy is not acceptable, the borrower will be billed for the item according to the charges for lost material.
Library Blocks and Registration/Transcript Holds
Library blocks will automatically take effect, suspending further circulation transactions when a customer has outstanding fines amounting to over $5.00.
Registration/transcript holds are submitted each quarter for students whose outstanding fines total $5.00 or more. Students will be notified of the impending hold and given an opportunity to clear their library fines before the hold is placed. Those students who do not do so will have a registration hold placed against them and will be unable to register for the following quarter until the bill has been resolved. Graduating students will have holds places against their transcripts until such time as the bill has been resolved. Registration/transcript holds include a $5.00 non-refundable administrative fee.
Disclosure of Borrower Information
Circulation records are confidential. However when one customer has an item checked out, the needs of another customer can be often met by a brief check of a quotation, citation, etc. in that item. In this case the borrower's name and telephone number will be disclosed to any member of the Stanford University community if the borrower gave permission to disclose this information when the borrower registered for privileges at Jackson Library. Borrowers remain responsible for library material charged out on their IDs until it has been returned to the library.
General Library Guidelines and Rules
In order to provide a quality environment for study and research, we ask that you abide by the following guidelines. We ask that you demonstrate courtesy and a respect for the rights of others in making use of the facility and its resources.
- Beverages are allowed in covered containers. Food is allowed in specified areas. Please be considerate and dispose of trash in the receptacles that are provided.
- The library is a smoke-free environment.
- Limited cell phone use is allowed in the lounge areas on the library's main floor. Please keep cell phone conversations to a minimum and take extended phone conversations outside. Cell phones are not permitted in the study areas on the main floor or on the second floor, except in study rooms.
- Roller skates/blades may not be worn in the library.
- Please keep your valuables with you, as the library cannot be responsible for them.
- Paging of library users is not possible.
- Library material should not be reshelved after use. Items removed from the shelves should be placed on the green refile shelves located throughout the library. Reserve material should be placed in the appropriate slot at the Reserve Desk.
- Please return charged-out material in the appropriate slot at the Circulation Desk When the library is closed, use the outside bookdrop located to the left of the library doors.
- A user feedback form ("How Did We Do?") for communications regarding library resources and services is available at several service desks and on the web. You may contact library staff at jackson.library@gsb.stanford.edu
