library use by faculty
Excerpted from Library use policies, 2005.
The Pratt Institute Library is a private facility for the use of students, faculty, and staff with valid Pratt identification. Alumni and Friends of the library need to show current ID provided by the Institute. Members of the Academic Libraries of Brooklyn group are welcome with appropriate identification. Other outside researchers are admitted by appointment only.

Loan Period
Books, pictures and some government documents circulate for four weeks to faculty. Patrons may have a maximum of ten items on loan at any one time. Patrons may place holds on material that is checked out. Once it is returned, it will be held for them at the circulation desk.

Renewals and Returns
Books, pictures and some government documents circulate for four weeks to faculty. Patrons may have a maximum of ten items on loan at any one time. Patrons may place holds on material that is checked out. Once it is returned, it will be held for them at the circulation desk.

Lost Book Charges
Items one month overdue will be considered lost by the patron. Patrons will be charged the replacement cost plus a $15 processing fee.

Reserves
Materials for course assignments and certain other heavily used items (Manhattan Sanborn MAC computer manuals, etc.) are held at the Circulation Desk. They may be checked out for two-hour in-library use. Request by call number for books or by instructor's name for articles. Fines for overdue reserve material are $0.50 per item per hour.

Other Library Rules
Eating, drinking, and smoking are not permitted in the Library. Please be gentle with library materials. They are the Institute's property. There are severe penalties for theft or mutilation of library property. For your own protection, do not leave your property unattended while in the Library.

Electronic Resources
PrattCat is the Online Public Access Catalog of the holdings of Pratt Library. This computerized system includes the catalog of books and multimedia holdings. PrattCat is available at many terminals within the library. Pratt Library also has other electronic resources, available at Internet workstations in the first and second floor reading rooms. The Pratt Library Web site offers many of these resources online, including PrattCat.

Locating Books
Find call numbers and locations using PrattCat. Most of the Library's books are shelved in call number order in the glass-floored stack area behind the elevator. A floor plan and stack guide are available for more details about the physical arrangement of library materials.

Locating Periodicals
The library subscribes to more than 500 periodicals (magazines, journals, and newspapers), divided among the three departments: Information/Reference (R), Art & Architecture (AR), and Library & Information Science (LS). Refer to the ‘yellow book,' kept at each reference desk, for details about holdings and locations. Pratt Library has a variety of indexes, both printed and electronic, to help identify and locate articles.

Multi-Media Center
The Multi-Media Center is located in the lower level reading room of the Library. Films, video-cassettes, and other media can be borrowed from the Multi-Media Center. Materials circulate from the Multi-Media Center for 24 hours. Campus Audio Visual Services, located in room 31E of the Engineering Building, lends A/V equipment to members of the Pratt community.

Picture Files
The picture files, located on the third floor, contain images, photographs, and clippings that may be borrowed twenty at a time, and art reproductions that may be borrowed five at a time. Find specific images in the picture files with the subject index.

Visual Resources Center
The Visual Resources Center, on the second floor, houses a large collection of art, architecture, and design slides. Students may borrow slides for a three-day period. The Visual Resources Center also has two scanner-equipped workstations, one for the Macintosh platform and one for Windows, two slide scanners, a copy stand, and a camera, available by appointment only.

Copying
The copy machines in the library are self-service and serviced by an outside vendor. Coins or copy cards may be used. Free scanners are available in the Visual Resources Center, 3rd floor.