Users
- Students, Graduate Institute faculty, employees and alumni (free card)
- Holders of library cards from RERO (Library Network of Western Switzerland) or Bibliopass Network
- Geneva residents [Registration form (rtf, Fr.)] (10 CHF + a copy of an identification document will be asked)
Loan Conditions
Maximum Number of Documents
- 15 documents (all BUPA libraries considered)
- 30 documents (for Graduate Institute faculty and PhD students)
Loan periods
- standard loan: 28 days (renewable twice)
- short loan: 7 days (DVDs, videotapes and CD-ROMs. 5 documents maximum at a time, renewable twice)
- very short loan: 4 pm - 10 am, the following day and Friday 4 pm - Monday 10 am (journals, reference material and books reserved for seminars; cannot be renewed)
- Semester loan: 6 months (for Graduate Institute faculty and PhD students; cannot be renewed)
Loan Renewal
- Only standard and short loans are renewable via the patron folder of the Geneva Library Network, by e-mail Library (at) graduateinstitute.ch or via the loan service (screencast [video]).
Reservation Requests
- Only borrowed standard and short loan documents may be reserved via the Geneva Library Network or via the loan service.
Internal Loan
- Unlimited number of standard loan documents stored in a carrel for 28 days (renewable at the circulation desk).
Late Fees
- 0,50 CHF fine per document and per day according to library loan regulations [pdf, Fr.]
- books reserved for seminars (red dots): 2 CHF per document and per day
- recall procedure: 1 recall e-mail sent the day before the document's return date, two recall letters followed by a summons letter leading to loan exclusion
If you are a Graduate Institute student, please take note that all correspondence about loans will be sent to your address ...@etu.unige.ch (auto-forward, screencast [video]).
Information
Loan service
Library (at) graduateinstitute.ch
T. +41 22 908 58 88
