Your library card
For Claremont Colleges students, faculty, and staff, your college ID card serves as your library card.
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Questions about access or borrowing?
Contact the Manager of Circulation Services or call the Honnold/Mudd Services Desk at (909) 621-8150.
Borrowing Privileges for Students, Faculty, & Staff of The Claremont Colleges
Your college ID card serves as your library card. The card must be presented when checking out library materials, renewing books, paying bills, etc. Please notify the Honnold/Mudd Services Desk (ext. 18150) if your card is lost or stolen. It is also your responsibility to notify the library regarding any change of address so that notices will arrive in a timely manner. You may update address information online in your library account.
- Students, faculty, & staff of The Claremont Colleges
- Students, faculty, & staff of the Claremont School of Theology & Rancho Santa Ana Botinic Garden
- Alumni/alumnae of The Claremont Colleges
- Claremont Colleges faculty & staff children, spouses, and domestic partners
- Emeritus faculty and retired faculty & staff of The Claremont Colleges
- Visiting scholars
Students, faculty, & staff of The Claremont Colleges
Privileges for current students, faculty, and staff include the ability to recall items from other users, check out bound periodicals overnight, borrow materials through Interlibrary Loan and/or LINK+, access library resources remotely, and reserve study spaces.
| Library User | Book limit | Loan period |
| Undergraduate student (F,S,J) | 60 | 28 days |
| Undergraduate student (Seniors) | 100 | Semester |
| Graduate student | 140 | Semester |
| Faculty | Unlimited | Annual |
| Adjunct faculty | 100 | Semi-annual |
| Staff | 100 | Semi-annual |
Students, faculty, & staff of the Claremont School of Theology & Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
CST students must renew their Claremont Colleges library card each semester.
| Library User | Book limit | Loan period | Restrictions |
| CST student | 60 | 28 days | No LINK+, ILL, or remote access |
| CST & RSA affiliate faculty | 100 | Annual | No LINK+, ILL, or remote access |
| CST & RSA affiliate staff | 100 | Semi-annual | No LINK+, ILL, or remote access |
Alumni/alumnae of The Claremont Colleges
Alumni/ae of The Claremont Colleges may request an alumni library card at the Honnold/Mudd Services Desk.
| Library User | Fee | Card Renewal | Book limit | Loan period | Restrictions |
| Alumni | None | Annual | 20 | 28 days | No recalls, LINK+, ILL, or remote access |
Claremont Colleges faculty & staff children, spouses, and domestic partners
Children younger than 16 years must be accompanied at all times by an adult.
| Library User | Fee | Card Renewal | Book limit | Loan period | Restrictions |
| Children, 16-22 years | None | Annual | 10 | 28 days | No recalls, LINK+, ILL, or remote access |
| Spouses or domestic partners | None | Annual | 20 | 28 days | No recalls, LINK+, ILL, or remote access |
Emeritus faculty and retired faculty & staff of The Claremont Colleges
| Library User | Fee | Card Renewal | Book limit | Loan period | Restrictions |
| Emeritus & retired faculty | None | Open | 60 | Annual | None |
| Retired staff | None | Open | 10 | 28 days | No recalls, LINK+, ILL, or remote access |
Visiting Scholars
| Library User | Fee | Card Renewal | Book limit | Loan period | Restrictions |
| Visiting scholar (upon presenting a written letter of recommendation from the Dean of Faculty of one of The Colleges) |
None | Period of visit | 60 | 28 days | No recalls, LINK+, or ILL |
| VIP (upon presenting a written letter of recommendation from the President or Dean of Faculty of one of The Colleges) |
None | Period of visit | 10 | 28 days | No recalls, LINK+, ILL, or remote access |