Faculty Study Carrels
Honnold/Mudd Library reserves carrels for use by faculty of The Claremont Colleges. Application forms are available from the Services Desk. Each carrel is semi-private and is designed to be a place where faculty can work on projects that entail extensive library research.
Should a faculty member have a research assistant who is actively involved in the faculty member's research, that faculty member may contact the Services Desk to make arrangements to allow the assistant access to the carrel. Using a faculty study carrel only as a convenient place for storing books or other materials or as office space for a research assistant are not considered appropriate uses of the carrel.
Policies
- Assignment priority
- Faculty carrels are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis, with priority going to current, fulltime faculty. Emeritus and adjunct professors and visiting scholars can be assigned carrels after the first 6 weeks of fall semester, provided all requests from fulltime faculty members have been met.
- Assignment term
- Because of the demand for faculty study carrels and their intended purpose as an aid to faculty doing extensive library research, all carrel assignments are reviewed at the end of each academic year. Faculty members who demonstrate a continuing need for a carrel may receive an extension for a second academic year; however, faculty members will not be assigned a faculty study carrel for more than two academic years without putting their names on the waiting list.
- Leaves of absence
- Faculty study carrels assigned to facultys member taking a leave of absence or an off-campus sabbatical may be assinged to another faculty member during the time of the leave. The faculty member on leave is assured of a carrel with no reduction in assignment term upon his/her return to The Colleges. If a faculty member leaves the campus for the summer, the library may assign his/her carrel to another faculty member or visiting scholar for the summer.
- Personal property
- A faculty member may bring a typewriter, personal computer or other equipment, research materials, and supplies into the Study, but the library is NOT RESPONSIBLE for damage or loss to any property left in a faculty study.
- Food/smoking
- Policies regarding food, beverages, and smoking in faculty study carrels are the same as those that apply to the library in general. Faculty should be aware of those policies and follow them.
- Faculty study door access codes
- The access code to each faculty study will be changed at the beginning of each fall semester. Faculty members assigned to a study may obtain the code from the Services Desk. The code should not be shared with research assistants or other persons without express authorization by Libraries staff.
- Communication
- The Libraries assume that each faculty study carrel is being used on a regular basis and that we can therefore communicate with faculty through placing notices on the carrel. It is the responsibility of the faculty member to respond in a timely manner to all such communications.
- Loss of carrel privilege
- Faculty are expected to adhere to all library and carrel policies, especially the periodical and book check-out policies. Disregard for policies, including providing access to the faculty study for research assistants or other persons who are not authorized, may result in loss of the carrel privilege.
Books & periodicals in faculty study carrels
- When checking out books you wish to leave at your faculty study carrel:
- Indicate that it is for your carrel so that the staff will not desensitize the material when they check it out to you. This may prevent someone else from carrying an item out of the library that is checked out to you.
- You will be given one carrel flag per book. That flag should be placed in the book. Fill out the flag at the time of check-out, indicating the call number of the book and the number of your carrel. This flag will tell the staff that the book is checked out and will prevent it from being returned to the stacks when staff check carrels for books "on search."
- Please remember that an item on your carrel that is not checked out is lost to the library.
- Please do not keep periodicals on your carrel. Any found there will be promptly returned to the stacks. When Libraries staff check carrels, if they regularly find periodicals on your carrel, you could lose your carrel privileges.