Local Loans

You can request the books and book at the same time the day and time of collection from the BiblioUPO portal, by accessing MyBiblio with your personal university credentials (red box "If you have an UPO account click here"), according to the following instructions:

Instructions for Loan Request and booking appointment for collection

Time needed for collection of books

Once you have booked the text from the catalogue, you have a set time within which you must come to the library to collect it, after this deadline the request is canceled:

• Ordinary loan: withdrawal within 5 days of the loan request
• Exam Texts Loan: collection same day or the day after the loan request

The duration of the loan changes according to the type of user and resources:

• Students, University technical administrative staff, external users
  Maximum number of books on loan: 3
  Loan duration: 30 days with an extension of 15 days in the absence of reservation by other users.

• Graduating students (including Master’s students, post-grad and advanced training students).
  Status as a "graduating" student must be certified by the thesis supervisor by email to biblioteca.digspes@uniupo.it or signature on the form available from the library
  Maximum number of books on loan: 6
  Loan duration:  30 days with an extension of 15 days in the absence of reservation by other users.

• Professors and researchers from the University of Eastern Piedmont (including research fellows, research assistants, experts in the subject, and PhD students)
  Maximum number of books on loan: 8.
  Loan duration: 60 days with an extension of 30 days in the absence of reservation by other users.

 LOAN OF EXAM TEXTBOOKS:

• the loan of exam textbooks for courses and / or seminars is daily and cannot be extended
• the book you borrow on Friday can be returned the following Monday

Extension of the local loan

For books that are not exam textbookss, you can request the extension of the loan only once, by telephone or by e-mail, if the volume is not already booked by someone else.

Reservation of volumes already out on loan

If the document you would like is not available because it is already on loan to another user, you can reserve it, and then collect it within 3 working days from the moment availability of the book is communicated to you.

You can return the volumes from Monday to Friday, directly in the library or using the red box in the atrium of Palazzo Borsalino, respecting the indicated loan deadlines.

If you find it difficult to return the books directly, let us know and we can arrange the return by post or courier with tracked shipping.

The less expensive solution with the Italian Post Office is the Registered Book Postal service

The address is: Biblioteca Bobbio del Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza, Scienze Politiche, Economiche e Sociali. Università del Piemonte Orientale.

Via Cavour 84 – 15121 Alessandria