Courtesy members are required to register at the Circulation Desk when entering the Library and present their current courtesy I.D. card. Beverages in rigid, non-spill containers with close fitting lids are allowed in the library. Paper or Styrofoam cups with or with out lids, and aluminum cans are not acceptable. All food is prohibited. As this is a research collection, most library materials do not circulate.
Exceptions are single-volume, bound treatises, and single volume government documents.
Reserve items may be signed out for three hour periods of in-library use. Franklin Pierce Law Center faculty, staff, and students with valid I.D. cards may check out materials that circulate. Borrowing privileges extend to attorney members of the Law Library with current membership cards. Borrowed materials are returned to the circulation desk where a desk assistant will remove the check-out slip from the book pocket. If it is returned on or before the date due, responsibility for the material is then discharged.