Short Loan Collection (SLC)

• What is the Short Loan Collection (SLC)?
• Limits and fines
• Use the online catalogue to reserve an SLC item for a time slot in the future
• Notes for academic staff wishing to have an item transferred to the SLC

What is the Short Loan Collection (SLC)?

The most heavily used materials are transferred to the SLC. Items are either loaned for three hours or overnight from 16.00 hours.

You can use the library catalogue to find out if a particular book or journal article is held in the SLC.

You can book these items for use on a particular day via the library catalogue:

• only one advance booking can be made for each item, but when borrowed it may be returned and re-issued if not required by another reader
• advance bookings should be collected on time or they will lapse so that the books can be issued to other users

The SLC is situated on the Ground Floor adjacent to the Issue desk.

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Limits and fines

You may borrow a maximum of 4 SLC items at a time.

Items on three hour loan can be borrowed between:

• 10.00am - 1.00pm
• 1.00pm - 4.00pm
• 4.00pm - 10.00 am the next day (on Friday the loan will be due back by 10.00 am on Monday)

Take special care to return SLC items on time as they are in heavy demand and other readers will be wanting to use them.

Fines for SLC items brought back late are particularly heavy at 40p per hour, or part of hour, overdue. In addition, further penalties restricting Library use and borrowing apply for the repeated late return of SLC items.

SLC loans can be re-issued if they are not required by another reader, but this must be done with the item at the Issue desk. SLC loans cannot be re-issued or the loan extended online or by telephone.

Please note that self-issue is not  available for SLC items and they may not be removed from the SLC area unless issued at the desk.

Information for staff wishing to transfer items into the SLC can be found on the Academic staff: changing loan periods page

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Use the online catalogue to reserve a SLC item for a time slot in the future

Reservations for items on 3 hour loan should be collected by 11.00am, 2.00pm or 5.00pm according to the slot for which they were reserved.

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