LIBRARY READING PRIVILEGES & ACCESS TO COLUMBIANET

Free reading privileges in University Libraries are available to all seminar associates. The Columbia University Identification Card (CUID) must be presented at the library door to gain access. Access to the ColumbiaNet is also available to associates through terminals located in the libraries. For information on how to obtain a CUID, associates should telephone the central office (212-854-2389) between the hours of 10:00 am and 6:00 pm, Monday through Friday.

LIBRARY BORROWING PRIVILEGES

Seminar associates are allowed four-week borrowing privileges upon payment of a monthly fee of $35. To obtain borrowing privileges, associates should follow the procedure below:

1) Go to the Library Information Office (LIO) at 201 Butler Library with a valid CUID. You may pay the requisite fees at the LIO by check, Visa or MasterCard.

2) The LIO staff will activate your CUID for borrowing privileges.

The activated CUID card must be presented to Circulation staff when books are to be charged out. All items charged out will have a due date not to extend beyond the date through which the privilege has been purchased.

DODGE GYM MEMBERSHIP

Seminar associates are eligible to use Dodge Fitness center for a monthly fee with a valid CUID. For information on how to use these facilities, associates should contact the Dodge Membership office at (212) 854-2546.

FACULTY HOUSE MEMBERSHIP

Upon presentation of a CUID and payment of a membership fee, associates are eligible to receive an open account at the Faculty House. Members receive a discount on meals taken at Faculty House and are also notified of special events held at Faculty House throughout the year. To become a member, associates should stop by the main office located on the first floor of Faculty House or call (212) 854-7197.

Please Note: Columbia University's Faculty House will be under renovation from April 2008 through the fall of 2009

SUBVENTION FUNDS

Leonard Hastings Schoff's will left a fund to the University Seminars at Columbia to support the publication of materials that emerge from a University Seminar. Certain fields have been specified in the bequest for support: economics, sociology, psychology, penology and the behavioral sciences.

The Aaron Warner fund supports the publication of materials that emerge from a University Seminar. These publications do not need to fall under a specific fields. Our Advisory Committee named this new book subsidy fund the Aaron Warner fund, in honor of the social scientist who was Director of the University Seminars for decades, and whose devotion to music on the one hand, and to the world of physics at Columbia, on the other, carried him far beyond the social sciences.

For more information see the Schoff and Warner Subventions Guidelines and Procedures.