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Staff Guide to Rohrbach Library

Opening Hours

 

Borrowing Policies

Borrowing Privileges for Faculty, Administrators, and Staff


Books, DVDs, CDs

180 days with ONE 180-day renewal.  At the end of the 360 days, the items MUST be returned to the library. 

Leisure Reading Books

28 days with ONE 28 day renewal.  Leisure Reading is In RL 105, by the front door. 

Laptops, cameras, tripods, and other equipment

7 days with NO renewals

Number of items that can be charged out at any time

100

Interlibrary Library Loan (ILL) titles that can be borrowed at a time:

20 and NO renewals.

Available Technology

Available Technology

The library offers a variety of devices for loan at the Information Desk. Equipment is loaned on a first-come-first-served basis. The library does not take reservations on equipment.

Laptops / iPads available for checkout – 7-day loan period, no renewals

  • 75 Lenovo Laptops

  • 50 Mac Laptops

  • 13 iPads

Equipment available for checkout – 7-day loan period, no renewals

  • 14 Canon Eos Rebel DSLR cameras
  • 3 Sony A7 DSLM Cameras
  • 5 Sony camcorders
  • 2 GoPro cameras
  • 5 Eiki Data Projectors
  • 4 voice recorders
  • 11 TI-84 graphing calculators
  • 2 DVD external drives
  • Various tripods

Equipment available for checkout – library use only

  • 5 Lenovo Laptops
  • 5 Mac Laptops
  • Headphones
  • Phone chargers
  • Dry erase sets
  • Various adapters

Kindles available for checkout – 28-day loan

  • 6 Kindle fire tablets

Renewing Online

Easily Renew Online

1) Go to the Library Website Homepage

2) Click on Accounts dropdown menu in the upper right corner

3) Click on Library Accounts

4) Your Loans will be displayed on the top 

5) Click on the specific Loan you want to renew

6) Click on Renew

Logging into Library Resources

Accessing online resources via library web pages or the library catalog is a two-step process.

1) First you will be asked to click on "Use your Kutztown University account" from a menu:

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2) You will then be directed to Kutztown's Single Sign On page where you will login with your KU credentials:

Image of Sign-on boxes for University credentials