Starting today, Lamont Library will allow reprints on closed reserve to circulate outside the building for the first time. Lamont will also permit students to borrow books on open reserve for a period of two weeks.

Lamont will allow reprints on closed reserve to circulate outside the library for three hours so that students may use these materials "in the comfort of their own homes," a library official said.

Previously, books on open reserve could only circulate outside Lamont for three hours.

Under the library's new policy, students can borrow open reserve books for two weeks, although fines for overdue books remain the same-25 cents per hour with a maximum charge of $2 per day.