The Hectic Professor’s Best Friend

Are you too busy to get to the library today? Do you need that important new title for your research? Send a research or office assistant instead! The library offers faculty the opportunity to designate someone as his or her proxy borrower. All you need to do is fill out the Proxy Borrower Online Form, or send an email to the contact person below with the student and/or staff person’s name and a date on which the proxy borrowing should end. For example, “please allow the [name of research assistant] to borrow books on my record from now until December 31, 2008.” Once we establish the link, your proxy borrower can check books out on your library account. The books will appear listed on your patron record, not on the proxy borrower’s record. All usual loan policies will apply.

Contact Luisa Cywinski, Circulation Supervisor, at luisa.cywinski@villanova.edu to designate a proxy borrower (or two) today.