The Library

You can access your library records via the My Account link. For example, you can see the materials you have charged out, overdue items, unpaid fines and fees, and the status of hold or recall requests. Additionally, you can renew items, if not requested by others, and place requests for offsite material and material charged out to other borrowers.

To log in enter your SUNet ID or the last 10 digits of the barcode number of your Stanford ID, which is underlined and located right above the barcode on Stanford ID cards.

Business Library Borrowers must:

• Provide a valid identification card.
• Provide complete address, email 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, a proxy may borrow for a faculty member.
• 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 i-Desk. Charged-out materials should not be left on counters, tables, or shelves. When the library is closed, the outside bookdrop located near the Bass Center entrance should be used.
• Be responsible for library material until it has been returned to the Library. We recommend that you return all material here. Other libraries may accept it, but it may not be returned to the 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.

*Videos in Stanford Graduate Business School Library- Archives Collection may only be charged out by Business School Faculty

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 may be borrowed on a quarterly basis. Please note that all borrowed material is subject to recall after two weeks.

• To renew material, borrowers may use My Account, call the i-Desk at 650.725.2055, or write to us at library@gsb.Stanford.edu. All material can be renewed three times unless it has been recalled. Once an item has been renewed three times, it must be returned to the library before it can be charged again.

• Recalls may be placed via the GSB Library Catalog or at the i-Desk. All material is subject to recall after 2 weeks. 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. Requestors are notified when recalled material is available at the i-Desk.
• Holds may be placed via the GSB Library Catalog or at the i-Desk. Holds do not truncate the existing due date.
• Hold requests for circulating reserve material may be placed at the i-Desk. The hold priority is forfeited if the borrower does not respond in 15 minutes when the item becomes available. No advance reservations are accepted for reserve items. Hold requests do not carry over to the following day.

• 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 are assessed for violations of borrowing rules. In computing overdue fines, each day is counted, whether the library is open or not. A borrower is not exempt from the penalties for overdue material because of failure to receive an overdue reminder notice from the library. 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 in our circulation system. Overdue and recalled material not returned will be declared lost after about one month, 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.

• Charges for lost material: Borrowers will be charged $75.00 per item for the replacement of lost material, plus a processing fee of $25.00 per item, and accrued overdue fines, if any. Please note that the actual replacement cost may be charged if the item costs more than $100.00.
• 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 Library, preferably on the same day that the loss, damage, or mutilation is reported. The replacement copy must be submitted for acceptance to the i-Desk Manager, 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 will automatically take effect, suspending further circulation transactions when a customer has outstanding fines amounting to over $50.00.

Library blocks are submitted each quarter to the University's Registrar Office. If this action becomes necessary, a $5 registrar fee will be added to the bill. Students will be notified of the impending hold and given an opportunity to clear their library fines before the registrar fee is placed.

Circulation records are confidential. However when one borrower has an item checked out, the needs of another member of the Stanford University community can be often met by a brief check of a quotation, citation, etc. in that item. In this case library staff might attempt to contact the borrower to obtain the necessary information.

In order to provide a quality environment for study and research, we ask that you abide by the following guidelines.

• 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 lower level of the Bass Center.
• Roller skates/blades may not be worn in the library.
• Bicycles are not allowed 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 i-Desk. When the library is closed, use the outside bookdrop located to the right of the Bass Center entrance.
• A customer feedback form is available at the i-Desk and on the web. We also welcome your feedback at library@gsb.stanford.edu