Your status in relation to the University determines what and how many items you can borrow from the library. More information is available here.
Undergraduate students may borrow 25 books for 3 weeks with one renewal.
Graduate students may borrow 50 books for 3 weeks with one renewal.
Faculty members may borrow 100 books for 1 semester with one renewal.
Information about fines and fees is available here.
If we don't have what you're looking for, try requesting it through InterLibrary Loan (ILL)! ILL is a service that allows students to borrow items from other libraries, if Muntz Library doesn't have it. You submit a request for a book, journal article, conference paper, whatever type of source you need, and we see if we can find it for free!
Please note that ILL relationships are very important for academic libraries to function. We need to be respectful of the lending terms set by other libraries. This includes the copyright notices on electronic resources. For print, pay close attention to the due date on the item. To ensure that due dates are taken seriously, there is a $1 per day, per item late fee for ILL items.
The Robert R. Muntz Library offers thousands of books, available in print and electronic formats. If you know you're specifically looking for books, use Advanced Search to narrow your topic by material type.
Circulating print books (ones you can check out) are available in the 3rd floor stacks, to the right when you go up the stairs. If you'd like to browse, we do use the Library of Congress Classification system, and there is a poster with an outline of the subjects by letter on the 3rd floor. Most of the books on biology will fall in Class Q, Sciences. Specific areas of study are QH (Natural History - Biology) QK (Botany), QL (Zoology), QM (Human Anatomy), QP (Physiology), and QR (Microbiology). The library does carry reference, or books that can't be checked out, on the 2nd floor.
Our eBooks are spread over many collections and unfortunately, few of the providers seem to agree on a way to provide electronic content for libraries. You can do a search in our main search box (See: Books, Articles & More tab), or look in specific eBook collections. The best bets for eBooks are:
Some publishers allow you to discover books from their collection that UT Tyler does not own. If you come across such a title, please contact your librarian to see if we can purchase the book, or if we can get it for you through Interlibrary Loan.