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Visiting Scholars with Status as a KU Affiliate and KU Card


Visiting Scholars who have been designated as authorized KU Affiliates receive Full Library Services.  Visiting Scholars with KU Affiliate status and a KU Card may check out an unlimited number of long-term loan items for as long as four months, depending on the length of the appointment, and may renew the items up to five times via the Library Catalog before returning the items to the library or bringing the items to the library to check them out again.

All long-term loan items are subject to recall at any time and must be returned within 14 days of the recall date to avoid overdue charges.  Short-term and reserve loan items checked out for two weeks or less must be returned to the library from which they were checked out by the time due in order to avoid overdue charges and in order to renew them.  All KU Affiliates are required to present the KU Card to check out or renew library materials and to request library services.

KU Affiliates may also acquire the KU Online ID and Password in order to gain access to library workstations and for off-campus access to library databases and e-journals.