FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS COLLECTION ACCESS POLICY
Scarborough Library has an open door access policy: anyone may use the library. Persons connected to the university and those who reside in West Virginia and are over 18 years old may obtain a library card and borrow materials.
The Federal Government Documents Collection is open to all students, faculty, and staff of Shepherd University as well as any person wishing to use it. The Documents Collection is located on the main floor at the end of Reference on open stacks.
Anyone with a Shepherd University library card may check out Government Documents. With the exception of microfiche, cataloged documents in Reference, and bound periodicals documents, all documents circulate. Paper and non-musical CDs circulate for 28 days. Videos can be checked out for 10 days. Unbound government documents periodicals that are part of the periodical collection go out for one day. Users are welcome to use the non-circulating documents in the library.
Every effort will be made to accommodate a disabled user. There is a ramp into the library. The elevator is open to all users. Reference help is available for documents questions at the Reference Desk on the main floor. Reference personnel can assist users with the library catalog and the public access computers. Should a patron need help finding a document, a staff member will bring it to the user.
June 2009