Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery

Lockers & Study Rooms

Rules Governing Locker Use

• Materials kept in lockers and locker keys are the responsibility of the user. The library takes no responsibility for material lost, stolen or damaged while stored in lockers.
• The Library will not open a locker in the case of a forgotten key.
• Food and drink may not be stored in lockers.
• Library books charged out for home loan, if they are not overdue, may be kept in lockers. Other library materials may not be kept in lockers.
• Library staff will have access to materials stored in lockers and may remove materials from them.
• If staff members do remove materials, they will notify the user.
• You will be contacted near the end of the semester regarding your locker. Locker keys must be returned, in person, at the end of the semester before the Due Date to the Circulation Desk of the Library. Lockers will be cleared for future reassignment after the end of the semester. Locker contents will be considered abandoned property and will be held in the Library lost and found for one year.
• To avoid the above, you must notify the Circulation Department of address changes so that correspondence will reach you.
• Keys are subject to a late fee of $1.00 per day up to a maximum of $15.
• Keys not returned before the first day of the next semester will be considered lost and you will be assessed a Locker Key Replacement Fee of $20 in addition to the late fee.
• Please advise the Library Circulation Department immediately if you lose your locker key. This will enable us to rekey the locker for another student's use. If we have a locker available, upon payment of a $20 key replacement fee, we will issue you a locker.
• Locker assignments are non-transferable.
• Violation of these rules may result in suspension of privileges.

Study Room Rules

Eligibility: Graduate students must be enrolled during the assigned time period. Faculty must be employed by UMBC during the assigned time period. Emeritus faculty, visiting faculty and researchers must be sponsored by a UMBC faculty member or the Library Director.

Assignment: All study rooms will be assigned by random selection from those applications on hand on the selection date (which will be 2 weeks prior to the first day of the assignment time period), and thereafter on a first-come-first-served basis (with random selection in case of a tie; for faculty study rooms, priority will be given to those with sabbatical projects) within the categories available. Assignment is from the first day of the Semester or combined Summer Sessions to the last day of exams for that Semester or the Summer Sessions. Applications for successive assignments will be placed at the end of the queue. Users will be notified by mail to pick up keys. Rooms not claimed (by picking up the keys) by the end of the second week of classes may be reassigned.

Food, drink, smoking: As in the rest of the building, food, drink (except for water) and smoking are prohibited. Food and drink may not be stored in study rooms and if found by staff it will be discarded without notification to the owner (see also "inspection" below).

Library materials in study rooms: All library materials left in study rooms must be charged out to the user.

Theft: Materials left in study rooms are the responsibility of the user. The Library is not responsible for the loss of personal items nor for the loss of Library materials left in these rooms.

Inspection: Library staff will periodically inspect study rooms and bins without notification of the user.

Windows: Users may not block or even partially cover windows of study rooms.

Squatters: The graduate student study rooms will not be locked and will be available to others users when those assigned to them are not using them. These assigned users may, however, may bump others from their assigned seats. If you need assistance in bumping another user, ask at the security desk.

Keys: Keys for study rooms and book bins are subject to fines for late return of $1.00 per day per key up to a $15.00 maximum fine per key. The fee for a lost key or a key not returned before the first day of the following semester is $50.00. Keys will only be issued to accepted for return from the assigned patron. No other key transaction will be accepted. The library will not open study rooms or book bins in the case of a forgotten key.