University of Michigan - Flint

Guiding Principles of Reference Service

Access Policies

• Webstation use
• Children
• Government Documents Collection - Access

Circulation Policies

• Library Cards
• Michigan Library Privacy Act
• Borrowing Privileges: Faculty & Staff
• Borrowing Privileges: Retired Faculty & Staff
• Patrons Outside UM-Flint
• Reciprocal Borrowing Privileges
• Community Borrowers Cards
• Michigan Research Library Triangle
• Academic Resource Sharing Cards
• Fines
• Lost & Damaged Materials
• Reference Books
• Newspapers
• Loan Desk homepage

Collection Development Policies

• Audiences and Purposes of the Policy
• Community Analysis and User Groups Defined
• Description of the Types of Programs and Patron Needs
• Brief General Statement About the Collection
• Cooperative Collection Development
• General Limitations, Priorities, and Acquisitions Policies
• Statement of Intellectual Freedom
• Currency of the Collection
• Specific Formats or Languages
• Budget Structure and Collection Responsibilities
  • Books and other individual materials
  • Periodical Subscriptions
  • Liaisons
• Types of Publications
  • Print Sources
  • Electronic formats
• Reference Works
• Interdisciplinary Areas
• Children's Literature
• Languages and Translations
• Multiple Copies
• Donating Materials to the Library
• Evaluation of the Collection
• Withdrawal, Discarding, and Preservation
• Complaints and Reconsideration of Materials
• Copyright
• APPENDIX A: Library Bill of Rights
• APPENDIX B: Reconsideration of Materials Form
• APPENDIX C: State Law Regarding the Selection of Library Materials
• APPENDIX D: Library Allocation Formula
• Collection Development for the Federal Documents Depository Collection

• Study rooms
• Displays & exhibits
• The Henry H. Crapo Room

Interlibrary Loan Policies

Library Instruction Policies

Miscellaneous Policies

• Copyright, Contracts, & Licenses
• Soliciting
• Food & Drink
• Proctoring

Library Documents

• Conspectus homepage
  • Conspectus Summary Report (1999): A comprehensive evaluation of the Thompson Library's collections
  • Conspectus Technical Report (1999)
  • Conspectus Update (2003)
• Library Faculty & Staff