Law Library User Guide

7th Floor

• Service/Circulation Desk

• Reading Room: materials may be checked out in one-hour increments;

  • Course Reserves

  • Reference Materials

  • Study Guides

10th-12th Floors

• General Collections

• Study Rooms

• Current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Baltimore and USMAI campuses may borrow materials from the UBalt Law Library.
• UB and UMBC alumni may also enjoy borrowing privileges.
  • UB alumni should obtain an alumni card from the Alumni Services Office for verification purposes.

• Bee Card holders may also borrow materials from other institutions within the University System (USMAI).
  • Non-UB borrowers should register at their home campus.
• USMAI materials may be returned to any USMAI library.
• Fines and Circulation Policies for non-UBalt Law materials are determined by the lending library, not the University of Baltimore Law Library.
  • Fines and charges must be paid to the lending library.

• UB Law materials loaned to UBalt/USMAI students and UBalt Law adjunct faculty have a loan period until the end of the current semester. There's no limit on the number of renewals for these borrowers.
• Alumni may borrow UB Law items for 21 days and are allowed to renew them three times, providing a total of four loan periods.
• Faculty loans have specific due dates, which are May 1 and December 1.

• All borrowers have the convenience of renewing items through the online catalog, by phone, or in person at the Service/Circulation Desk.

• Circulating materials may be subject to recall if requested by another patron.
• If material is recalled, borrowers must return it within 14 days of the notification date.
• Failure to return a recalled item by the due date will result in fines from the recall due date.

• Replacement fee: $90.

• Due 2 hours from the time of checkout or end of the day, whichever is sooner.
  • Physical digital media or audiovisual reserve materials are due 4 hours from the time of checkout or end of the day, whichever is sooner.
• $2.50 fine per hour overdue.
  • Maximum fine per item: $125

• $2.50 fine per hour overdue.
• After 24 hours overdue, the key is declared lost.
  • Replacement fine for lost key: $50

• All fines must be paid to the Business Office.
• Alternatively, fines can be paid by check at the 7th Floor Service/Circulation Desk.