Union College, Barbourville, D220
Contact: Lorraine Gess
Email: lgess@unionky.edu
Documents Department
Weeks - Townsend Memorial Library (Selective Depository)
Barbourville, KY 40906-1499
Documents/Public Service: (606) 546-1242
FAX: (606) 546-1239
Congressional District 5
Details, including policies
Type of Library
Academic
Library Director
Sean Jump
Selection Percentage
20%
OCLC Symbol
KUC
KLN Symbol
KUC
KULS Symbol
KYBVU
General Policy:
Government documents that circulate are considered like the general collection--semester checkout for faculty, four weeks for graduate students, two weeks for all others, including townspersons. Special collections, including document periodicals and reference material, do not circulate. Knox County residents who are 16-years-old or older, have a photo identification card, are not attending another institution of higher learning, and who give two references, are eligible for library cards entitling them to charge three items.
ILL Policy:
The Weeks-Townsend Memorial Library accepts OCLC, fax, ALA, and KLN requests. Monographs, including government documents, are loaned for 38 days with normal renewal of 24 days. A-V is only loaned to AIKCU libraries; curriculum, microforms, reference and special collections do not circulate. Photocopy charges, including those for periodicals and microforms, are reciprocal in state and Soline; all others--1st 20 exp. free; over 20 exp., $.10 exp. Do not lend theses. Generally provide 48-hr turnaround; will lend materials to libraries outside the U.S.
Photocopying Service
Black and white copies: 5 cents
Color copies: 15 cents
Reference Service
Type of services offered: Using and locating resources.
History & Description
Date library became a depository: 1958
Type of designation: Representative
Special Collections: Lincoln/Civil War, Kentucky, genealogy, curriculum, juvenile.
Special Services: bibliographic instruction, database searches, audiovisual taping and recording, laminating, poster making.
Special area(s) emphasized: education, business, health, interior, justice defense, agriculture.