Reader Services includes Circulation, Course Reserves , library accounts , and study spaces. Your Binghamton University ID serves as your library card. All other patrons can fill out the Courtesy Borrower Account form or visit the Reader Services desk Monday-Friday from 8am-5pm at Bartle Library to obtain a library card. Submitting the form ahead of your visit will save you time at checkout. We'll notify you once your account is set up and ready for use.
When authorized by the Libraries, an individual sponsor may designate a proxy borrower to pick up library materials on their behalf. Sponsors are responsible for material that is checked out on their account by authorized proxy borrowers.
See Proxy Borrowing Form. As a courtesy, an email notice is sent one week before the library material is due. The Libraries use the University's binghamton. If the item is not returned after 30 days, the item is considered lost and the library will send an invoice for the material.
All materials are subject to recall by the Libraries. Patrons are responsible for keeping their accounts in good standing, including renewing and returning materials on time. Patrons are responsible to turn materials in by their due dates regardless of receipt or acknowledgment of email communications. Visit your library account online, call, or stop by a service desk to renew your library materials. Course reserves should be returned to the service desk from which they were borrowed.
Exterior book bins are available at the entrances to the Bartle and Science Libraries. A drive-up bin is located at the loading docks between the Bartle and Engineering buildings. Materials can be returned to any SUNY library for a courtesy return to Binghamton or shipped directly to us. We recommend using package-tracking when shipping, as you will be responsible for the items until they reach us:. The Libraries reserve the right to recall items from all patrons, reducing the loan period.
