Help Desk
Find all the helpful information below as it relates to Lane Library. If you have questions or trouble finding something, please reach out to our staff.
| Loan Period | ||
|---|---|---|
| Group | Books | DVDs and Videos |
| Students | Due on the last day of classes for the current semester. | Due on the last day of classes for the current semester. |
| Faculty & Staff | Due early August. | Due on the last day of classes for the current semester. |
| Community Cardholders | Due on the last day of classes for the current semester. | Due on the last day of classes for the current semester. |
Your Library Card
Ripon College students, faculty, administrators and staff can use their campus ID to borrow library materials. Community members can borrow library materials by signing up for a Lane Library Community Card.
Renewals
Students: all books must be returned before leaving campus for break unless there is an ongoing project that they are needed for. Please contact [email protected] if you need to keep an item during break. Reserves are not eligible for renewal.
Professors: All display books and DVDS may be renewed once. After this, the item must be physically checked back in before being lent again.
There are no renewals on items with a hold on them.
To renew an item:
- Online: Log into your library account in the catalog and go to the dropdown menu under your account and click “Checkouts.” Check the items you wish to renew and click Renew Items.
- In person at the circulation desk
- By phone to the circulation desk: 920-748-8175 (or x175 on campus)
- By email to [email protected]
Holds/Recalls
If you would like an item set aside for you, you can place a hold on it through the catalog or ask at the front desk. It will be pulled from the shelves and brought to the circulation desk for pickup, usually within a day. You will be notified by email when it is ready.
If you need it quickly, contact us and request that an item be recalled. It is possible to recall an item from another patron after they have had it for two weeks.
Items recalled to be put on the reserve shelf must be brought in within a day of being notified.
Reserves
Books and articles put on reserve by the faculty for student use are available at the circulation desk. A student should know the course number and item title to facilitate requests. Most materials are available for three-hour, in-library use only.
The course reserves page lists all classes with books on reserve and is updated each semester. Faculty can find more information on placing items on reserve on the faculty resources page.
Student
Employment
Students interested in working at the library should drop an application off at the front desk, email the completed form to Andrew Prellwitz: [email protected], or apply through Handshake.
Tasks include processing, cataloging and filing archival material, general maintenance of the College’s archival collection, and creating exhibits for the museum and library.
Supervisor: Andrew Prellwitz
The person(s) in this position will be responsible for finding, editing and downloading computer records for new books and materials in the Lane Library. Possibility of advanced work as priorities permit and the student shows potential.
Supervisor: Amy Stephens
Assistants are responsible for customer service to library patrons during all open hours. The main tasks include checking out and in of library items, maintaining proper placement of all library items within the building, and helping patrons locate desired media. Other duties as assigned.
Maintain incoming and outgoing interlibrary loan requests and ensure databases reflect circulation of these items. Locate books and articles via the worldwide web to fill patron requests. This position fills at least one hour per day each weekday.
The person in this position will be responsible for preparing new materials to go out on the shelves. This includes stamping, security tagging, and securing spine labels to new collection materials. The position also involves shelving books, and other duties as assigned.
Supervisor: Amy Stephens
Process and shelve the library’s journals, magazines, and newspapers. This position fills at least one hour each weekday morning.
Library Policies
All circulation history is anonymized upon the return of items to the library. Circulation history is only retained in the case of in-use, overdue, damaged, or missing items. Patrons must opt-in if they would like to retain their circulation history and can adjust their privacy preferences at any time by signing into their library accounts (https://library.ripon.edu/).
We do not release the circulation history of any patron to anyone else for any reason. Patrons may only take out items on their own account unless they have written, spoken, or standing consent of another patron (for example, a professor who often sends students over to pick up books).
Ripon community members are welcome to use resources at Lane Library during the hours the library is open. Local community members who would like to check out resources from Lane Library should request an application for a Community Card at the circulation desk and have a check ready payable to Ripon College in the amount of $100. Community card memberships run Aug. 15 through Aug. 14 of each year and need to be renewed annually. Due to restrictions from database vendors, we cannot offer use of databases other than our library catalog to community members. However, as a Federal and State depository library, Ripon College provides free public access to Federal and State depository material, both in print and on the computer. Patrons requiring access to government depository resources should inquire at the circulation desk.
When computers are in high demand we ask that they only be used for academic work; anyone using a computer for non-academic work may be asked to allow another patron to use the computer. “Academic work” includes research using the Federal and State depository resources.
The library is for all members of the Ripon College community. We ask that you act in a manner respectful of your fellow community members at all times when in the library. Anyone who does not may be asked to leave.
Cell phone conversations are allowed in the library in the following locations: the front lobby, the stairwells or the conference room.
Food and covered drinks are permitted in the library as long as care is taken to keep library materials and furniture clean. Please respect your fellow students and don’t bring in food that has a strong smell (pizza, for example).
There is a bulletin board in the main entrance for posters. Any posters posted outside of this area without consent of a librarian will be taken down.
During the school year, the computer lab is open all times the library is open. When it is reserved for a class, the individual instructor may or may not allow students who are not in the class to use a computer.
Waitkus Lab Calendar
Floors 1A, 1, 2A, 2, and the silent study room are designated quiet study areas. Please respect others’ need for a quiet environment by confining conversation to the main floor and the Franzen Center (3A) or the conference rooms (4), which offer many areas for groups to work together.
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