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In an effort to reduce financial hardship on students and improve patron experience, we are excited to announce new borrowing policies that include eliminated and reduced fines on certain collections and equipment.

General Collection: We are eliminating overdue fines on general collection materials. General materials include items in the main stakes, media browsing, closed stacks and storage, and the recreational reading collection. Fines will remain on ILL, reserves, equipment, and recalls.

Equipment: Overdue fines on circulating equipment have also been reduced. Information for laptops and equipment loans is available in the borrowing section of the Library website.

Amnesty: We have moved to a new amnesty model that gives borrowers one waiver per semester.

Food for Fines: In addition to the changes outlined above, the Library has partnered with the Brandeis Food Pantry to establish a new Food for Fines program. Patrons can now pay their overdue fines with a donation of non-perishable food or hygiene items that will go to the Brandeis Food Pantry. Each item donated is worth $5 toward Library fines.

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Missing Book Returns to Brandeis Library After More Than 40 Years

Sometimes, missing things find their way home.

Bruce Davidson’s East 100th Street disappeared from the Brandeis Library in 1973. It would not return for several decades. Presumed gone forever, the book was eventually replaced with another copy, and students and faculty continued to have access to the photographer’s striking black-and-white photography of a poverty-stricken block in East Harlem.

Then one day in 2015, the book arrived back at the Library with a note from the former student who had held onto it for 42 years.

“I am returning to you a book that I have had since 1973. While I have come across the book amongst my things many times, I have thought about it differently at different points in my life. As it lay carelessly strewn on a coffee table throughout the 70s, I’m pretty sure any inclination to return it was met with a misguided need to be an outlaw…to give expression to a rebellious impulse buried deep in my otherwise overly obedient, somewhat depressed, young self. In later years, coming across it would bring up feelings of guilt, followed by the decision to return it, followed by distraction and inaction. Now coming across the book, I feel shame and sadness. I see that it was given to the library as a gift in memory of a friend. I see that the images are powerful and could have influenced the perspective of the next person to pick it up off the library shelf. I see that books are precious, especially in the age of e-books and i-everything, and I did not keep this one in the best condition. I see that I had no business keeping it at all.

“I am returning this book with apologies to the folks who gave it to the library, to the man in whose name it was given, to the people whose images are in the pages, to the students who didn’t get to see it while it was missing, and to the University.”

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The Brandeis Library is building a non-English recreational reading collection!

Available across from the Information & Borrowing Desk in the Goldfarb Library, the collection features about 50 titles in Hindi and Chinese.

The Library is continuously working to be a place where the entire Brandeis community can feel welcome. When international students walk through the doors, they will now have more opportunities to see material in their native language.

You can help us grow the recreational reading collection! If you would like to suggest a title or a non-English language we should include, please email [email protected] .

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We know finals are crazy and stressful, but we've got you covered. Check out our destress stations (Lego, origami, coloring, and puzzles) and come hang with some therapy dogs on Friday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday afternoons on Farber Mezz and a petting zoo at the Usdan entrance on Monday from 11-1! #brandeis #finals #finalsweek #brandeislibrary #brandeisfinals #destress #lego #puzzles #coloring #therapydogs #pettingzoo #origami #librarydestress (at The Goldfarb Library)

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Huge thanks to @brandeis_dining for their stunning cake featuring famous blond authors and delectable flowers! Thank you for all you do! Today is the Brandeis #ediblebookfestival! Take a look at our entries and come to the first floor of #Goldfarb #Library now to vote and at 2pm for eating! (at The Goldfarb Library)

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