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Circulation Information

Renewals

Circulating Items

Returning Books

Loan Periods

Overdue Items

Checkout Limits

Replacement Costs


Circulation Privileges
  • Faculty, students, and staff of the Texas Wesleyan School of Law may check out items with their law school ID card.
  • Texas Wesleyan University students, faculty and staff may check out items with a valid Texas Wesleyan University ID card.

Circulating Items

  • Any item that has a "Date Due" sticker on the inside cover may circulate.
  • Items with a "For Reference" sticker on the inside cover do NOT circulate and may only be used in the law library.
  • Law reviews, legal journals and other periodicals do not circulate.
  • Print reserve items do not circulate and must be used in the law library only. Library guests may use reserve materials while they are in the library by leaving their driver's license at the circulation desk.
  • Multimedia reserve items such as audiotapes, videos and DVDs may be checked out and taken out of the law library for 24 hours by patrons with circulation privileges.
Circulation Loan Periods

Loan periods vary depending on the item being circulated.

Material Type Law School Faculty/ Adjuncts
 Law School Students & Staff University Faculty/ Staff/Students Members of the Bench, Bar, and General Public
Books and Serials 1 year 2 weeks 2 weeks No
Reserve materials (print)
 2 hours 2 hours 2 hours 2 hours (in-library only)
Reserve materials (audiotapes, videos and DVDs) 24 hours 24 hours 24 hours 2 hours (in-library only)
Bound and unbound periodicals 24 hours
 No No No
Reference materials 24 hours No No No
Three-ring and compression binders 24 hours No No No
Works of three volumes or more 24 hours No No No

Item Checkout Limit

  • Texas Wesleyan law school faculty: No limit to the number of items that may be checked out from the law library.
  • Texas Wesleyan law school students and staff and Texas Wesleyan University faculty and staff: 8 items total from the Law Library and West Library. 4 of these items may be Reserve items.
  • Texas Wesleyan University students: 2 items from the law library.

Returning Books

All material checked out from the Dee J. Kelly Law Library MUST be returned to the Dee J. Kelly Law Library, NOT the West Library.

Renewals

When renewals are allowed, the borrower may renew the item in the law library’s automated system by logging into his or her account. Instructions for renewing materials online through the library’s automated system are found here. If the item is already overdue, the item must be physically brought to the library to be checked-out again. No telephone renewals will be accepted.

 Patron Type
  Number of Renewals
 Law School faculty
  unlimited
 Law School students/staff    
 1
 University faculty/staff
  1
 University students
 		 0

Reserve items may not be renewed.

Overdue Item Procedures

When an item is overdue from the law library:

  • The patron's circulation privileges will be suspended.
  • The library will notify the patron regarding the missing title.

If a title is overdue for two weeks, it will be considered lost and the patron will be responsible for replacement costs. Circulation privileges will be reinstated when:

  • The item is returned, provided a replacement copy has NOT already been ordered.
  • If the replacement item has been ordered, the patron is still responsible for paying the cost of the replacement. Circulation privileges will be reinstated when the replacement cost has been paid.

Replacement Cost for Lost Items

  • In-print item: the cost of the item, plus a $25.00 processing fee.
  • Out of print item: $100.00, plus a $25.00 processing fee.
  • Videotape or DVD produced by a professor for class use: $25.00, plus a $25.00 processing fee.

Full circulation policy