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Off-Site and Remote Access

If you are connecting to the library databases from off-campus, you will be prompted to log in with your SMU username and password. Alumni may access library databases on-site at the John A. Graziano Library in Oakland.  If you are having difficulties with the library login, email us at library@samuelmerritt.libanswers.com.

Online and Distance Services

• OneSearch—A good first stop for nearly any subject or type of material
• Databases—Most of our journals and articles are available online. You can find appropriate databases by subject and by what type of material they provide
• Interlibrary Loan—The SMU libraries can obtain journal articles and books that are not available in the library. Articles are delivered as PDFs through email. Books from our library catalog and from the interlibrary loan service are all available for free delivery and return using a prepaid UPS return mailing label and the original packaging
• Faculty Services—Schedule an online research orientation, get research help, learn about OA Publication fund, and more
• Research Guides—Curated guides to research using the library (and other) resources
• Ask a Librarian—Contact us for answers to questions, for help with research, or to schedule a personal online research consultation

Browse a list of all research guides.

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Course Reserves: Oakland students can look up materials that have been put on reserve. Fresno, Sacramento, and San Francisco Peninsula students can inquire about reserves through Ask a Librarian.

Borrow, Renew, Return

Borrow

Most reserve items have a two-hour loan period; most non-reserve items have a two-week loan period.

In order to assure maximum availability to all patrons, journals, and reference books may be used only in the library and cannot be checked out.

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Returns

Oakland:

• Return slot at the library’s circulation desk

• Dropbox outside the Health Education Center

• Dropbox outside the Peralta Pavilion

Items placed in the drop boxes will be backdated to the previous day. To avoid overdue fines, course reserve items should be returned within the library. 

Sacramento and San Francisco Peninsula: To return materials to the Sacramento and San Francisco Peninsula campuses, please return items to library circulation desks. For more information, see the Sacramento Libguides and SF Peninsula Libguides.  

Renewals

• Patrons can log in to their library account to renew any one-week or two-week book or call the circulation desk at 510.879.9290

• One-week and two-week items can be renewed once

• Items cannot be renewed if they are placed on hold by another patron.

• Course reserve items cannot be placed on hold

Holds

• Patrons can log into their library account to place a hold on any one-week or two-week book in the Oakland, Sacramento, or San Francisco Peninsula libraries

• Course reserve items cannot be placed on hold

• If the item is available at your library, library staff will retrieve the item. The patron will receive an email notice when the item is ready for pick up. If the item is checked out, you’ll receive a notice when the item is returned

• If the item is at another campus library, library staff will send it to your campus library. The patron will receive an email notice when the item is available to pick up at the circulation desk or holds area

Overdue Fines

Patrons are responsible for returning library materials on time. As a courtesy, the library sends email reminders to SMU borrowers with overdue books. The library is not responsible for non-receipt of overdue reminders, and fines will not be waived due to non-receipt of overdue notices.

• Two-week loan items: $0.10 per day

• Seven-day loan items: $1 per day

• Three-day loan items: $1 per day

• Two-day loan items: $1 per day

• One-day loan items: $1 per day

• Two-hour loan items: $5 per day

At the Oakland library, fines are paid by cash or check at the circulation desk. Checks can be made out to the "Samuel Merritt University" and mailed to: John A. Graziano Library, attn: Circulation, 400 Hawthorne Ave. Oakland, CA 94609 

Circulation privileges will be blocked with fines of over $20. The Samuel Merritt University Registrar will block registration and withhold student records if there are unpaid fines.

Lost or Damaged Books

For lost or damaged items, patrons are charged the current market rate for the replacement item plus a $20 processing fee.

Alternatively, a replacement copy in new condition may be accepted. The $20 processing fee still applies.

Note: Student privileges are concurrent with registration and terminate at graduation. Staff privileges terminate upon separation of employment.

Videos and Streaming Media

Alice Street

In a rapidly gentrifying city, the construction of a luxury condominium threatens a local mural, forcing the artists and neighborhood to rally to protect its history, voice, and land.

Born in the USA 
Provides an in-depth look at low-risk childbirth in America by presenting three different types of caregivers and settings: an obstetrician working at a teaching hospital, a licensed midwife attending home births, and a certified nurse-midwife bridging both worlds in an urban, out-of-hospital birth center. By examining the culture of birth practices in America, 'Born in the U.S.A'. raises questions about technology, safety, and quality of care, and it challenges parents to be proactive about getting the kind of care they want and need.

Clinica De Migrantes

CLINICA DE MIGRANTES counters the often dehumanizing and highly politicized rhetoric surrounding America's immigrant population, providing a compassionate profile of patients at Puentes, many of whom have left their families behind to come to America and perform physically exhausting labor for meager wages. Poverty-stricken and without medical insurance, the patients at Puentes often have nowhere else to turn for medical care. In addition to the patients, the film follows the tireless clinic staffers who treat around ten thousand patients each year with limited space and even less funding.

Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter
This documentary chronicles the various stages of a mother's Alzheimer's disease and the evolution of a daughter's response to the illness. The desire to cure the incurable—to set right her mother's confusion and forgetfulness and to temper her mother's obsessiveness—gives way to an acceptance which is finally liberating for both daughter and mother.

Read more

Interlibrary Loan

• Students may submit a total of 20 requests per semester, with five active requests at a time
• After the first 20 requests, each additional request will incur a $2 fee
• Exceptions will be made for students working on synthesis and thesis assignments

The Library can obtain journal articles and books that are not available in the Library 's catalog.

• Request an article (not in the SMU collection)
• Request a book (not in the SMU collection)

 Questions? Email us!