At each level of appeal the Library officer will make every reasonable effort to respond to the appeal within five working days. Three bound periodical volumes may be checked out for three days to faculty only. Unbound issues do not circulate. Government Publications, Tennessee state publications, and maps circulate for two weeks to all Library users with valid U of M ID's or Special Borrowers cards. Documents of a reference nature or belonging to special collections, travel material, and bound periodicals may circulate for three days to The U of M faculty, students and staff.
Reference documents circulate at the discretion of the department head.
No limit exists as to the number of documents checked out to one person. However, the staff may use discretion in cases concerning subject matter of a high demand nature. All material in Government Publications is to be checked out in the Government Publications Department. Library material in the reference collection, including books, abstracts, indexes and other similar works are for in-Library use only and may not be circulated. Each instance is handled individually.