Regulations

Users

Internal Users: employees (current employees, trainees and sub-contracted workers).
External Users: academic (students and teachers).
Special: consultants, freelancers and former employees of CPRM.
Institutions: employees from other institutions through means of an interlibrary loan.

Opening Hours

Internal Users - Monday to Friday, 8am to 12 noon and 1.15pm to 5pm.
External Users - Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 12 noon and 1.15pm to 4.30pm.

Registration

Internal Users: registration in the library users database.
External Users: via interlibrary loan: a letter is sent from the library which made the application, which must also be registered in the users database.

Reference and Access to Shelves

The library collection can be consulted by acessing our Online Catalog or using the catalogs available at the library. There is unlimited access to the items on shelves. The cartography and the photography collections can also be consulted online and in the collections available in PDF format. Please ask the librarian for help should you wish to consult the hard copies. After a document has been consulted by the user it should be left on the reading desk.

Loans

Employees (current employees, trainees and sub-contracted workers): CD-roms, floppy disks and videos – 10 days; periodicals, miscellaneous and technical standards – 10 days; books, theses and project reports – 30 days; aerial photographs, photo indexes, radar images and maps – 30 days.

Academics (professors and students): periodicals, miscellaneous and technical standards - 5 days; books and theses - 5 days; maps – 10 days.

Especial (consultants, freelancers and former employees): CD-roms and videos - 10 days; aerial photographs – 30 days; books, theses, periodicals and maps – 10 days.

Loans to regional units employees: CD-roms and videos - 10 days; books, theses and project reports - 30 days; aerial photographs, photo indexes, radar images and maps - 30 days.

Interlibrary loans Institutions: books, theses and miscellaneous - 15 days; maps - 10 days; aerial photographs - 30 days.

N.B.

Users will be held responsible for all items consulted and/or borrowed. When loan services are used, borrowers are bound to abide by the standards set out in these regulations and account for any potential damage and/or loss to the documents consulted/borrowed.