Borrowing and Renewing

• SIUSM faculty, staff, students, and residents may borrow library materials by presenting their current identification or appointment cards at the Circulation Desk.

• Users will be registered in the Medical Library circulation system which will then give them borrowing and renewing privileges from the Medical Library Catalog.

• Online borrowing is not available from the Medical Library catalog but renewing of materials is allowed.

• To renew books a personal VuFind account must be created. See VuFind Account Creation.

• Renewals are permitted, if no other user has requested the material.
• A recall may be placed on circulating materials at a user's request. Materials may be recalled to the Library at any time, usually after the first four-week loan period.
• It is the responsibility of the borrower to renew materials. This should be done through a personal VuFind account. See VuFind Account Creation.

Materials may be borrowed from:

• SIU Medical Library
• I-Share libraries  libraries throughout the state of Illinois
• Interlibrary Library Loan (ILL) libraries throughout the United States