Use the library — Borrowing

The Library is for everyone in our university community. Please use our physical items fairly and return books when others need them.

How to borrow

●You will always need your Ucard to borrow an item.

●There are self-service machines at all libraries.

Number of items

●Undergraduates and taught postgraduates can borrow 40 items.

●Staff and research postgraduates can borrow 75 items.

Loan period

●Standard items are currently guaranteed for 7 days.

●Some specialist items will have different loan periods. To find a specialist item’s loan period, check the individual page of the library that holds the item.

Automatic renewal

●If no one reserves the item, it will automatically renew and you will have it for another guaranteed loan period.

●Items will not automatically renew if your account is blocked.

Unable to return an item

●If you will not be able to return a book in time, you must contact the library.

●If you do not return an item when it is reserved, the book will become overdue and your account will be blocked.

●If an item is not returned and has been overdue for over 2 weeks, you will be charged a full replacement cost.

Any items taken out with your library card are your responsibility. Do not lend them to others.

During university vacations

During university vacation periods, there turn date will be extended on most items. You will be able to keep these items until the end of the vacation, even if it is reserved.

Not all items are available for vacation loan. Always use My Library Account to check the return dates of items you are currently borrowing.

If you need a book that is on vacation loan, contact your Subject Librarian.

Mr. Brozina is a single father and an elementary school librarian who reads aloud for a living. When his daughter, Kristen, hit fourth grade, he proposed The Streak: to see if they could read together for 100 straight bedtimes without missing once.

When The Streak reached 100, they celebrated with a pancake breakfast, and Kristen whispered, "I think we should try for 1,000 nights."

Mr. Brozina was delighted, but what he was thinking was, a thousand nights?! "I thought, we'll never do it," he recalled. "And then we got to 1,000, and we said, 'How can we stop?' "

For 3,218 nights (and some mornings, if Mr. Brozina was coming home too late to read). The Streak went on. It progressed from picture books to middle-school classics to Harry Potter, Agatha Christie, Dickens and Shakespeare, continuing on, until Kristen's first day of college.

In those nine-plus years, they survived many close calls. When Kristen was still in elementary school, her father went to Washington. "The phone rang at 10:45 at the hotel and it was Kristen," Mr. Brozina recalled. "She said, 'Dad, we forgot The Streak!' Fortunately, I always traveled with several books and we read right then and there."

This spring, Kristen graduated from Rowan' University. She has performed as you'd expect for a product of The Streak, an English major with a 3.94 average. She also won two national writing contests, was an editor of the humor arid literary publications and won the annual English department award.

Here are books you need to get you through your indoor time.

The Book of Dif ficult Fruit by Kate Lebo (April 6)

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This book contains 26 essays, each accompanied by recipes for delicious food. Lebo writes about little-known fruits, known only to special gardeners and famous cooks, and more popular varieties, such as blackberry and pomegranate. Every sentence is as comfortable as the first bite into a cold, juicy plum (李子).

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (April 20)

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In 2018, Michelle Zauner, lead singer of the band Japanese Breakfast, wrote an essay for The New Yorker titled “Crying in H Mart”, where she discussed her connections to shopping in the Asian market chain. Her eyes were filled with tears in the food court as she watched people eat. It all reminded her of her mother, who had passed away a few years earlier.

My Year Abroad by Chang-rae Lee (February 2)

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The novel-set at a time when it was possible to journey to China. As with Lee’s first novel Native Speaker in 1995, or the more recent On Such a Full Sea (2014), which is set in a New China, this one changes many stereotypes shown in former novels. My Year Abroad is a surprise, with an ending that will be sure to leave you texting all your friends.

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (March 2)

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Klara and the Sun is the writer’s first publication since winning the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. Klara is an Artificial Friend who is sensitive to human feelings. As Klara carefully and lovingly observes others, the work of Ishiguro’s reader is to carefully and lovingly observe her. An ideal novel for our lonely present, exploring questions of alienation (疏离), and failed communication.