User categories and rights Anyone can have the right to borrow material from the Central Library or the Departmental Libraries of the University of Macedonia, as long as they are authorised members in any of these Libraries. User categories and the rights of each category are as follows: | | Obligatory Papers
| Items | Loan Period | Renewals | Fees and Fines | Undergraduate Students
| | 3 from Main Collection + 2 Literature | 14 days | 3 times by telephone or via internet + 2 with the books present, for 14 days | 0,50 euros for every item and for each day of delay | Postgraduate Students
| | 5 from Main Collection + 2 Literature | 14 days | 3 times by telephone or via internet + 2 with the books present, for 14 days | 0,50 euros for every item and for each day of delay | Candidate Phds
| | 5 from Main Collection + 2 Literature | 56 days | 3 times by telephone or via internet + 2 with the books present, for 56 days | 0,50 euros for every item and for each day of delay | Non-Affiliated Members
| | 2 from Main Collection | 14 days | 3 times by telephone or via internet or with the books present, for 7 days | 0,50 euros for every item and for each day of delay | Non-Affiliated Members - Students
| | 2 from Main Collection | 14 days | 3 times by telephone or via internet or with the books present, for 7 days | 0,50 euros for every item and for each day of delay | Faculty Staff
| -- | 40 from Main Collection + Literature | Indefinite return date
| -- | -- | Teaching Assistant
| - Application
- Identity card and its' photocopy
- Certification of your status
- Certification that you teach
| 20 from Main Collection + 2 Literature | 6 months | 3 times by telephone or via internet +2 with the books present for 180 days | 0,50 euros for every item and for each day of delay | - The circulation right is valid from the next day of handing in the obligatory papers.
- Telephone renewals or renewals via OPAC are not possible if the material is overdue and there are fines.
- The user does not come upon fines for the days that the library remains closed.
- In case the borrowing card is lost, it must be reported to the Library the soonest the possible.
Other user categories
| | Obligatory papers
| Items | Loan Period | Renewals | Fines | Administration Personnel and Special Technical Lab Personnel
| - Application
- Identity card and its' photocopy
- Photocopy of the job contract or certification
| 3 from Main Collection + 2 Literature | 14 days | 3 times by telephone or via internet +2 with the books present for 14 days | -- | Research Personnel
| - Application
- Identity card and its' photocopy
- Photocopy of the job contract or certification
| 3 from Main Collection + 2 Literature | 14 days | 3 times by telephone or via internet +2 with the books present for 14 days | -- | | Qualification Programs | - Application
- Identity card and its' photocopy
- The card is valid until the end of the programme
| 3 from Main Collection + 2 Literature | 14 days | 3 times by telephone or via internet +2 with the books present for 14 days | 0,50 euros for every item and for each day of delay | | Visitors from Other Institutions of Greece and Abroad | - Application
- Identity card or Passport and its photocopy
| 3 from Main Collection + 2 Literature | 7 days | 3 times by telephone or via internet for 7 days | 0,50 euros for every item and for each day of delay | Administration Services
| -- | 20 from Main Collection and Literature | As long as it's needed
| -- | -- | | Laboratories | -- | 40 from Main Collection and Literature | As long as it's needed | -- | -- | Cooperated Libraries
| -- | 3 from Main Collection | 28 days | once, for 28 days
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Circulation days and hours
The circulation desk follows the library hours, with the only difference that it stops its' services an hour before Library's closing time. The days and hours of circulation are announced from the Library in the beginning of every academic year.
Holds
Holds can be placed for every loaned book, either in person at the circulation desk of the Library, or online through the library catalog (OPAC). All holds are valid for 30 days, otherwise they're being deleted. The 15th July is considered as the final day for the deletion of every year's holds. All the requested material is being held in the Circulation desk for two (2) days.
Recall a checked out item
All loans are subject to recall, when a hold has been placed by another borrower, after seven (7) days of the initial loan period has passed.
Non loanable material - Journals. All journals (current issues and bound volumes) are not loanable. All users can study them in the Library and make photocopies in the Library's photocopy machines.
| - Reference material. Reference material of every form (print, floppy disks, cds, other audiovisual material, etc.), such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, bibliographies, guides, manuals, statistical data in monographies, etc., have the letter R at the beginning of their call number and are not loanable, but they can be used in the Library in the way mentioned above.
| | | - Postgraduate students' Theses
| - ICAP and ΙΟΒΕ Section Studies
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Charges for lost/damaged materials
All users are responsible for the good condition of the material when they return it to the Library. If a user damages or loses the item he has borrowed, he's obliged to pay to the Library 1,5 times the price of the item and if the item is no longer available in the market, he should pay 1,5 times the price of another item, which the Library will choose to replace the first one.
Returning a checked out item All users should return the books they have borrowed in the Library Circulation Desk..
Users of the Departmental Libraries hold the right to return checked out material either to the Departmental Library in which they are registered, or to the Central Library. On the contrary, users of the Central Library are not allowed to return a checked out item to any of the Departmental Libraries, but only to the Central Library. In the same way, borrowed material can not be returned between the Departmental Libraries. In case of a delay, the user is charged with 0,5 EUROS fine, for every day of delay and for every book they have borrowed.
Students in their final year can not graduate unless they return the books they owe. Book Return Service (NEW!) The Book Return Service gives the right to all Library users to return their books, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, beyond the Library hours and even during holidays that the University is closed!!! Check in date in the Book Return, which is situated next to the Library's entrance, is considered the exact previous day of the Library operation. The books in the Book Return are collected at 9 a.m. daily, during the Library working days. If, for example, a book is collected on Monday 10/6/06, then it's considered to be returned on Saturday 8/6/06 (Saturdays that the Library is closed are excluded) ATTENTION!!! If the returned books are delayed and there are fines, these are not deleted and they remain in the user's card, until they are paid. Please check the books that you return they belong to the Library's collection.
Read here the whole text of the circulation policy (available only in greek). |
Library Services 
One of the main services of the Library is the external loan of the major part of the Library material, a right that can be obtained by almost all the library users... 
