What's in the Periodical Reading Room:
Current issues of professional, scientific and technical journals, popular magazines and selected daily local, national and foreign newspapers are found in the library's Periodical Reading Room. Periodicals are held in this location for up to twelve months, after which time they are bound into hard covers and shelved in the main periodical stacks located on the east side of 2nd floor, or until they are received on microfilm or discarded. Newspapers are kept for no more than three months in paper format. A few newspapers, such as the Chico Enterprise-Record, San Francisco Chronicle, Times of London and the Wall Street Journal, are reproduced on microfilm after the three month period and housed in the Microform collection on the west side of the 2nd floor just outside the Reading Room.

Who can use:
The Periodical Reading Room is designed as self-service, open stack area for making available to university students, faculty, staff and the general public current issues of professional, scientific and technical journals, popular magazines and newspapers. The collections are arranged in Library of Congress call number order. To facilitate the locating of materials, patrons can use the Library Catalog via the ReSEARCH Station, located within the Reading Room and throughout the library for subscription information and copy availability. For the convenience of all patrons, periodical and newspaper items must be used and remain inside the Reading Room. For those who wish to make copies of materials, a number of photocopy machines are located within the Reading Room which a student ID card with value added, and the faculty and staff's 'University Services Card'.

Loan Periods:
Periodical items may be checked-out only by university faculty, with rare and restricted circulation by item to students with written permission from a Reference Librarian and presentation of a valid campus identification card. All checkouts are for 24 hours.

Charges:
Late fees are $.50 per hour and accrue to a maximum of $20.00. Fines are computed and recorded for each hour of each calendar day, whether the library is open or closed.

rev. 8/2005