OSU Libraries

You will receive an answer to your appeal within one week.

A notice of overdue items is sent to the email address on your library record as a courtesy reminder. Non-receipt of an overdue notice does not exempt you from fines or charges.

It is your responsibility to be sure that a current email address is in your official OSU record. You may appeal library fines or charges at http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/borrowing/appealing-library-charges-form

The Valley Library makes desktop and laptop computers available to students, faculty, staff with a valid ONID account to provide access to library collections and other information resources for the purpose of supporting and facilitating learning, research, and teaching. The Valley Library also provides Valley Patron Computers that may be used by students, faculty, staff, and by guests without valid ONID accounts.

In accordance with the OSU Libraries’ policy regarding the issuance of Library Cards, all patrons under the age of 16 are required to have parental/guardian consent before using the Valley Patron Computers located in the Valley Library Learning Commons. Patrons under the age of 16 will be required to obtain a Library Card or Computer Use Card by submitting a completed application, including parent or guardian signature. More information and applications for cards can be found at osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/borrowing.

Checkout periods for course reserves are 3 hours or 2 days at the instructor’s discretion. Hourly circulating items can be checked out overnight if they are checked out within 3 hours of the library’s closing time, and will be due back 1 hour after opening.

Course reserves are first come, first serve, and cannot be recalled, held, or renewed. Patrons wishing to use the same material more than once in a day must wait 15 minutes between checkouts to allow other patrons access to the materials.

• Contacts: Faye Chadwell (7-8528) | Security (7-3010)
• Notify your supervisor and unit head of this incident.
• Use this form to report any security-related incident that occurs in your Library unit (e.g. verbal abuse, destruction of library materials, disruptive and/or disturbed patrons, theft, obscene phone calls, sexual offenses, etc.).

OSU Libraries & Press is please to make available conference rooms, general meeting rooms and classroom space to the OSU Community for the purposes of supporting academic success, intellectual freedom and free speech. These rooms are designated for university activities and are available to university faculty, staff and students to schedule, not the general public per Oregon Administrative Rules (ref 576-005-0015)  

• Renewal is based on availability.
• All library materials kept in the rooms must be checked out. The library reserves the right to inspect rooms at any time and remove library materials that have not been checked out.
• Doors, walls and windows are to be kept clean and free of any covering, postings or artwork.
• If violations to study room policies are observed, the patron is notified. If violations are severe, the room may be revoked.
• Floors are cleaned on a regular basis.

Reservations

• Advance reservations are limited to one per person per day, and may be made up to 28 days in advance.
• Advance reservations are not required, but are strongly recommended.
• Individuals may check out a key card for immediate use of a room at the Circulation Desk, if any rooms are available and have not been reserved by other patrons.  Immediate use check-outs are not advance reservations; they do not count against the daily limit for advance reservations.
• If the key card