Books – Main Collection

Students
2 weeks – renewable for an additional week

Faculty 
1 month – renewable for an additional month

Reserve Materials

Students

• During staffed library hours – borrowing period is 2 hours, renewable for an additional 2 hours.
• Materials borrowed within the last two hours the library is staffed on any given day will be due within the first hour the library is next staffed.

Faculty

• 1 week

Study Guides

Students
2 weeks 

Faculty
1 month – renewable for an additional month

Fine Schedule

Study Guides

Students
$ 1.00 per day for each day overdue

Books – Main Collection

Students
$ 1.00 per day for each day overdue

Media Collection

Students
$ 1.00 per day for each day overdue

Reserve Materials

Borrowed for 2 hours

• Students - $10.00 per hour or part of an hour for each hour returned late

Transcripts, registrations, and graduations will be held up until fines are paid.

What is the Library’s Food and Drink Policy?

While we want all members of the Touro community to have a rewarding library experience, we do ask that those using our facility respect our food and beverage policies. Because food and beverages can cause damage to our materials and equipment, as well as invite insects and rodents, we find it necessary to impose some limits on the consumption of food and beverages in the libraries:

• Snack foods are permitted. This includes items such as candy bars, nuts, pretzels, chips, pastry, dried fruit, raw vegetables, and cookies. Food waste must be discarded in designated containers.

• Beverages are permitted as long as they are in sturdy, spill-proof containers. At a minimum, all beverages should have a lid on them at all times. Please keep lids and caps on all glass or plastics bottles.

• Meals that consist of messy or aromatic foods are not permitted. This includes items such as hoagies, steak sandwiches, pizza, salads, soup and generally any meals provided in vendor packaging or that come from fast-food restaurants or home.

• Students who violate the food and beverage policy will be asked to move to a more appropriate dining location.
• Always properly dispose of leftovers, empty containers and wrappers.
• Damage to Touro property (desks, computers, screens, printers, etc…) will be the responsibility of the user.

This policy is subject to change if these policies are abused or ignored. Our goal is to accommodate the needs of our library customers and reflect the reality of the current culture while maintaining a clean, pest-free environment, preserving collections and equipment, and sustaining an atmosphere conducive to study and research. We ask that you be considerate of your fellow students, the Library Staff, as well as the next Library user that comes after you.

Within Touro

Students at the 125th Street campus are welcome to use any Touro College library. However, if you borrow books from another library, you must return it there, as we have no means to shipping books between libraries. However, at this time you will be unable to login to their computer system.

The New York Medical College in Valhalla New York is part of the Touro College and University System, so you can use that library as well. However, at this time you will be unable to login to their computer system.

Outside of Touro

Touro College is a member of the Metropolitan New York Library Council. Some other member libraries allow reciprocal use of their libraries my users of other members. This is usually only to access a particular book or journal that the user’s home library doesn’t have. If you want to visit one of these libraries you need a special pass. Just ask Touro-Harlem Medical Library Faculty or Staff for oen.

Neither Columbia nor NYU offer access, nor allow others than their students, faculty and staff to use their libraries, just as we don’t allow non-Touro students to use our library.

New York Academy of Medicine Library – is open by appointment Tuesday–Friday - 10 AM–4:45 PM.

Public Libraries

New York City has three public library systems:

New York Public Library – NYPL – serves Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island – it has two types of libraries – research and branch.

Queens Borough Public Library - QBPL – which serves Queens.

Brooklyn Public Library – BPL – which serves Brooklyn - 

Anyone living in New York can get a library card to use any of these libraries. They all have wide ranging and unique collections, plus online access to a variety of materials.