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Library Membership and Borrowing Facilities

All prospective library users should apply for library registration. The categories of readers, venues of registration, documentary evidence and facilities provided are as follows:

Academic Staff of University of Peradeniya.

Category	Venue of Registration	Documentary evidence required	Entitled facilities
All permanent members of the academic staff	Library Counter	Letter of appointment issued by the university	Borrowing up to a limit of 5 books for 3 months
Temporary members of the Academic staff of faculties of Science		Letter of appointment issued by the university	Borrowing up to a limit of 2 books for one week
Emeritus Professors		Letter of appointment issued by the University and payment of a refundable deposit of Rs. 500.00	Borrowing up to a limit of 5 books for one month
Staff Technical officers in the Faculty of Science		Letter of appointment issued by the university	Borrowing up to a limit of 5 books for 3 months
Technical officers in the Faculty of Science		Letter of appointment issued by the university	Borrowing up to a limit of 2 books for one week

Students of University of Peradeniya

Category	Venue of Registration	Documentary evidence required	Entitled facilities
Full-time undergraduates of the Faculty of Science (participation at the Library orientation programme is compulsory for registration)	Library Counter	Student ID (small brown book) issued by the Faculty of Science / Name in the class list of the Faculty of Science.	100, 200 & 300 (general) level students – facility to borrow one lending book and one SR book Borrowing period is one week 300 (special) and 400 level students – facility to borrow two lending books and one SR book Borrowing period is one week
Post Graduates students of the PGIS	Library Counter	Student identity card issued by the PGIS and payment of library fees Rs. 1500.00 and refundable library deposit of Rs. 1000 per library ticket up to two	Borrowing period is one week

External Scholars and Researchers including doctors and consultants

Category	Venue of Registration	Required documents / Fees	Entitled facilities
Researchers (Local)	Science Librarian’s Office in the Ground Floor	Letter of introduction and Rs. 250.00 per week	Reference only
Researchers (Foreign)	Science Librarian’s Office in the Ground Floor	Letter of introduction and Rs. 2000.00 per week	Reference only

Renewals

Books borrowed by users can be renewed for another one week if not required by another user. To renew such a book the user should produce the item at the circulation counter before the due date. If the user is unable to be present in person at the Library for renewal, he/she could send a letter or an e‒mail with the following details pertaining to the book;

Author
Title
Accession No.
Class No.
Date of return

Renewal of material will be done only once. Overdue books or the materials from the reference collections will not be renewed.

Reservations

Reservation facility is available for books which are in demand and new additions to the library. An entry for reserving a book should be made in the file kept at the circulation counter during the specified time for reservations.

Requesting for books which are not found on the shelf - This is a service provided by the library to its users when a particular material is not found on the shelf.

A check slip needs to be filled at the circulation counter and a staff member will take immediate steps to locate the book.