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• Faculty may authorize a Proxy Borrower to borrow print library materials on their behalf by completing the Proxy Borrower request form. The Proxy Borrower must have current borrowing privileges. Faculty may authorize multiple Proxy Borrowers, and someone may be a Proxy Borrower for multiple faculty members.
• Once the form has been completed, the individual who has been assigned to be the Proxy Borrower will receive an email confirmation. The Proxy Borrower should show this email to the Information Desk staff of the听library they selected on the form. The听library staff will create the proxy account in the system and issue a separate card to be used for 鈥減roxy鈥� transactions.
• The Proxy Borrowing card听does not听provide remote听access to electronic resources听at the Libraries, nor does it give you access to all services and resources at the Libraries.
• Proxy Borrowers are not able to place hold requests, scan requests, or recalls on behalf of faculty in the Sofia Discovery Tool. These requests must be placed in person at a听library Information Desk.
• The faculty member can see all his/her personal activity and activity carried out by his/her proxies. For the faculty member, in their Library Account听there is no indication what materials were checked out by the faculty member and what materials were checked out by the Proxy Borrower. To find out which items where checked out by a Proxy Borrower, a faculty member will have to contact a听library Information听Desk.
• A Proxy Borrower will have to visit a听library Information Desk to get information about the materials that they have checked out on behalf of the faculty member.
• Below is a chart of the notifications from the Sofia Discovery Tool to the faculty member and the Proxy Borrower.

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