INTERNAL REGULATION OF THE LIBRARY 1. General aspects 1.1 ...

INTERNAL REGULATION OF THE LIBRARY
1. General aspects
1.1. The Library is normally open from 1st September to 31 July of each year and in August
depending on staff availability. It is closed on bank holidays according to the academic calendar.
The opening hours are published every year.
1.2. Information services offered by the Library to users are:
- Consultation of documents stored in the Library;
- Loans of books stored in the Library;
- Bibliographic searches.
1.3. Further services offered by the Library to institutional users (defined at
point 2.1) are:
- purchase of books and subscription to periodicals on Library funds;
- purchase of books on individual funds of professors;
- cataloguing and storage of books, periodicals and other documents (reports, balance sheets…)
1.4. The regulation of the Central Library of Politecnico di Milano applies for
norms not specified in this regulation.
2. Access to Library services
2.1.Services are provided for professors, researchers, PhD students and academic staff included in
the staff list of the Department.
2.2. Students researching under the supervision of a faculty member are also admitted to the
Library showing their official card.
2.3. Users from other institutions can access the Library showing the badge, issued by the
Secretariat of the Library after approval by a supervisor.
2.4. Users not fulfilling the present regulation may be sospended from the Library services.
3. Consultation
3.1. Professors, researchers, PhD students and academic staff included in the staff list of the
Department enjoy free access to consultation of documents stored in the Library.

3.2. Users defined at points 2.2. e 2.3. can consult documents in the Library:
- filling the appropriate form;
- showing the badge;
- leaving a valid ID card.
3.3. Users can ask the loan of a book, according to rules in section 4, by
filling the appropriate form.
3.4. Loans of journals, periodicals, reports, dictionaries and enciclopedias are
generally not allowed.
4. Loans
4.1. Institutional users can borrow maximum 10 volumes at the same time for a maximum period
of 3 months.
4.2. Other users can borrow maximum 5 volumes at the same time for a maximum period of 1
month.
4.3. The Library can always ask the immediate return of one or more volumes even before the date
of expiration of the loan.
4.4. Users have to inform the Library staff about the bad conditions of a book when borrowing it.
4.5. Any damage to books will result in the suspension from the loan service and in an appropriate
charge, according to the regulation of the Central Library of Politecnico di Milano.
4.6. Any delay in returning borrowed volumes will result in the suspension from the loan service.
4.7. In case of loss of a borrowed book, the responsible user will be charged of an adequate
amount, according to the regulation of the Central Library of Politecnico di Milano.
5. Copies of documents
5.1. Copies of books stored in the Library are not allowed.
5.2. Copies of other documents may be allowed.
6. Acquiring documents
6.1. Documents acquired by the Library with personal funds must meet requirements of high
scientific quality and coherence with themes of the Department. Besides, any document must be,
at least potentially, interesting for several researchers within the Department.

6.2. All institutional users can submit a request for acquiring books. Specifying the price of the
book will allow to purchase the book more quickly.
6.3. All institutional users can submit a request for subscription to journals or periodicals with
Library funds through the appropriate form. Requests submitted after 31 July of each year will be
considered for the following year.
6.4. The Library has the right to select the books to be acquired considering the available funds,
the level of interest of the documents, their cost and the balanced allocation of funds among the
several disciplinary areas.
6.5. The Library will be in charge of acquiring the books requested by the individual professors,
who have to specify the fund to be used.
6.6. All books purchased autonomously by individual professors on their own funds must be sent
to the Library for cataloguing and storage.