Music Library Circulation
The Music Library is open to the public for use of materials and services in our facility. In order to borrow items from the library, you must bring in your valid, bar-coded UTK ID card. You can also obtain borrowing privileges through purchase of a subscriber's card at the Circulation department on the second floor of John C. Hodges Library.
Loan Periods
- Undergraduate Students - 28 days
- Graduate Students - 112 days
- Faculty and Staff - 365 days
Materials with Restrictions
- Periodicals do not circulate.
- Sound recordings and video recordings are primarily
for use in the library. Faculty may check out sound
recordings and videos for 3 days; all students may ask
for a 2-hour loan of these materials for classroom presentations.
Graduate students and Honors/College Scholars Undergraduates may check out compact discs for
a period of 3 days.
- Music reference books, composers' complete works (M3), and historical sets (M2) are for use in the library only.
Request or Recall
If you need to use an item that has been checked out by another person, ask to place a request or recall on the item.
- REQUEST means that when the piece is returned, the Library will send you a notice and hold the book for you at our Circulation desk.
- RECALL means that the individual to whom the item is checked out will receive a notice to return the material within 10 days. When it comes back to the Library, we will send you (person who has placed the recall) a notice and hold the book for you at Circulation. All borrowers are subject to paying fines if they do not return a recalled item on time.
Overdue Fines
Fines may be paid at the Second Floor Circulation Desk of Hodges Library or at the AgVetMed Library. You may pay fines and fees with credit card, debit card, VolCard, check, and money order. Hodges Library no longer accepts cash for fines or fees. Some fines may also be paid at the Bursar's Office on campus or via the web at Circle Park Online. Call Hodges Circulation at 974-4351 for more information about paying fines.
The Music Library staff cannot accept fine payments but can tell you what you owe.
- Regular Books, Periodicals, and Some Media - No Fines
- Recalled Items: Books, Bound Periodicals, and Some Media - 50 cents per day
- 3 Day Media Center Materials - 25 cents per hour
- Studio Equipment - 25 cents per hour (plus a $20 nonrefundable processing fee)
- Loaner Laptops and Commons Equipment - 25 cents per hour
- Reserve Materials
- Nocirc - 25 cents per hour
- 2 Hour/Overnight - 25 cents per hour
- 3 Hour - 25 cents per hour
- 1, 3, or 7 day - $1 per day
The maximum fine accruable on any one item is $20 (with the exception of Studio Equipment).
Borrowers will be blocked from borrowing additional library materials when they have accumulated $5 in fines or other outstanding library obligations. Failure by University of Tennessee students to pay fines or other outstanding obligations will result in the withholding of registration or transcripts.
A similar failure on the part of borrowers not affiliated with the University may result in the suspension or revocation of borrowing privileges.
Delivery and Library Express
Most items from other campus libraries can be delivered to the Music Library using the "Request" link in the Library Catalog. Faculty and graduate students may also have items delivered to their Departmental offices. For more information, please check the Library Express page.