Checking out books UCSD Library materials are checked out through the Circulation Desk at each UCSD library or via Library Express . If you are UCSD faculty, staff, or student, you must present your UCSD ID card, which must have the current validation sticker.
Loan periods vary from library to library.
Everyone is guaranteed at least 1 week with monographic material, but after such time these items are subject to recall. Bound journals do not circulate at the UCSD Biomedical or Medical Center Libraries, however they do circulate for 1 to 7 days, depending on your privileges, at all of the other UCSD libraries. You may also be able to return items via Library Express . All UCSD Library Circulation Desks offer convenient return bins where you can place material you wish to return. The Undergraduate, Science and Engineering, and Social Sciences and Humanities libraries also offer external return slots, located near the main entrance of each library.