Circulating Collections
The College of Law Library is primarily a research facility. As a result, much of the collection, such as journals, reporters, codes, encyclopedias, and multi-volume treatises, does not circulate outside the building. Some of these volumes may circulate within the law building to faculty offices and student carrels. For more information about circulation, please contact the Circulation staff.

Material missing from the shelves should be reported through a Search Request form available at the Circulation Desk. Library staff will search for the item. If the item cannot be located, and the patron makes a request, the staff person will attempt to obtain the material through interlibrary loan.

Borrowing Procedures
University of Iowa borrowers must present a current and authorized University of Iowa identification card.

Members of the Iowa Bar may borrow Law Library material with a special bar-coded card obtained after completing a form available at the Circulation Desk.

Non-University of Iowa persons may not borrow materials directly from the Law Library but may request materials through interlibrary loan at their local library.

Loan Periods
Circulating Law Library materials are subject to a recall at any time. Revised due dates are communicated via email. If a recalled item is not returned by the revised due date, borrowing privileges may be restricted.

Loan periods for circulating books and treatises vary according to the status of the borrower and the type of material.

* The Legal Fiction Collection has a two week loan period for all borrowers.

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Return Procedures
All circulating library materials must be returned to the Law Library Circulation Desk by their due date. If materials are not returned by the due date, the borrower will be notified. Borrowers receive two notices via email before a bill is issued from the University Business Office.

Lost Material
Library users will be billed for unreturned items according to the general University policy regarding replacement of lost library materials:

1. All library materials checked out must be returned by their due date.
2. The library charges users for material not returned to the library by the due date. If materials are not returned, the borrower will be notified. Borrowers receive two notices via e-mail before a bill is issued. The following schedule is used for sending overdue notices.

   Date Due	First Notice	Second Notice	Billing
   August 15	September 15	October 15	December 15
   December 15	January 15	February 15	April 15
   May 15	June 15	July 15	September 15
   Two week loans	One week after date due	Two weeks later	Four months after due date

3. All billing for lost items will be done through the University Business Office. Any correspondence concerning lost items should be directed to Law Library Circulation.
4. Shortly after the billing notice is sent, the library will process the billing for the missing item through the University Billing Office. The borrower will be charged, first, for the cost to replace the item; and second, a $10 processing fee for each item. If the item is returned to the Law Library after billing, but before the library has purchased a replacement, the replacement charge will be credited to the borrower's account. However, the borrower is still responsible for paying the $10 per item processing charge.

Law, Lawyers, and Popular Culture DVD Collection
Members of the law school community (law students, faculty, and staff) may borrow DVDs from the Law, Lawyers, and Popular Culture (LexPopuli) DVD collection. Use InfoHawk to search for DVDs by title or by subject ("law-DVD"). Users may borrow up to three DVDs at one time, for a period of three days. DVDs are checked out from Special Services in Room 130. When leaving the library, users must have circulation staff hand the DVDs around the security gate. DVDs must be returned only to the Circulation Desk or Special Services in Room 130. Please direct any questions on LexPopuli to Mary Ann Nelson, Executive Law Librarian, in Law Library Room 234.

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Faculty Circulation Guide

Recall
Books checked out to offices are to remain in that office (journals, reporters, etc., may not be taken out of the Law Building). All items are subject to "recall" if requested by another patron but will ordinarily be recalled only after two weeks have passed from the time they were borrowed. Faculty should respond immediately if they receive a notice that an item has been recalled. Failure to respond to notices may block borrowing privileges. The library staff can make arrangements to return the item as soon as possible.

Retrieval from Office by Library Staff
On occasion, a library staff member may need to retrieve a publication. If the faculty member is not in, a library staff member may enter the faculty office, retrieve the publication, and leave a signed form indicating which publication has been removed. The item will be returned within twenty-four hours unless the staff member has made other arrangements with the faculty member.

Return and Renewal
At the end of the semester, faculty members receive an e-mail notice that library materials will be due in one week. Faculty should return library materials that are no longer needed to the Circulation Desk or renew items still required. Faculty also may contact the Circulation Desk (5-9002) to arrange pickup of borrowed materials. Materials lost or unaccounted-for will be billed to the faculty member. Overdue materials and billing procedures are outlined in the Library Services for Law Faculty (142KB PDF*) guide and in the Lost Material section above.

Proxy Borrowers
If faculty members wish to have Research Assistants or Secretaries obtain books for them, a "Faculty Authorization for a Research Assistant" form must be completed at the Law Library Circulation Desk. Upon completion, RAs and secretaries are given a proxy card which permits them to check out items from other University libraries as well as from the Law Library on behalf of the faculty member. Faculty members are ultimately responsible for any items Research Assistants or secretaries borrow using this proxy card.

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