Library Rules

The students of the university, technical schools/colleges of SumDU, teachers and university staff, external users – Ukrainian citizens and foreigners – have the right to use the Library.

Library users can:

✔ use the Library collections and electronic resources

✔ take books home from the Library

✔ use literature and equipment in reading rooms

✔ get advice from library specialists

✔ get a reference and bibliographic advice

✔ visit exhibitions of art and literature

✔ use open Wi-Fi area

✔ order documents via Interlibrary Loan (ILL)

*Only SumDU students and employees have the right to take books from the Library collections or other libraries (for interlibrary loan) for temporary use.

The user must return the books within a specified time:

✔ Educational – 1 semester/year

✔ Scientific – 1 month

✔ Fiction – 15 days

✔ Overnight loan – 1-7 days

✔ Interlibrary loan (ILL) – for up to 15 days

If necessary, the period of borrowing should be extended on Circulation Desk or via the Personal cabinet in the electronic catalog.

User’s Responsibility:

✔ For the literature which was received at the Library

✔ During the work with literature, you should not bend the pages of books, make notes and underlines

✔ In case of loss of a document, it is necessary to replace it with the same or equivalent edition

✔ In case of loss of methodical instructions, lecture notes it is necessary to make a high-quality photocopy

✔ After finishing the studies or expulsion from the university, it is necessary to return all the literature to the library and sign an exit checklist.

✔ For damage to furniture, computers and other library property

Advice on service issues: