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SSW Placement: California

Important reminder for Smith College School for Social Work students:
When you arrive at your placement, be sure to ask whether your agency has its own library or whether it can arrange library privileges for you at an area library. If not, then use the listing(s) below to identify area libraries and their policies regarding access and borrowing. Note that all policies described below are subject to change.

The information below is provided for Smith College School for Social Work students. The policies listed do not necessarily apply to other researchers.

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Los Angeles Area

California State University - Los Angeles
John F. Kennedy Memorial Library
5151 State University Drive
Los Angeles CA 90032-8300
loans & reserves: 323-343-3988
reference: 323-343-4927

You are welcome to use the collection. To obtain borrowing privileges (10 book maximum at any one time), you may join the Friends of the CSULA Library for $35/year. This card does not offer interlibrary loan privileges.

University of California Los Angeles
Young Research Library
1134 Young Research Library (north end of UCLA campus)
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
phone: 310-825-4732
reference: 310-825-1323

You are welcome to use the collection. To obtain borrowing privileges (5 book maximum at any one time), you may purchase a public borrower's card for $100/year or join the UCLA Library Associates for $80/year. This card does not offer interlibrary loan privileges. More extensive borrowing privileges are available at additional cost.

University of Southern California
Leavey Library
651 West 35th Street
University Park
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2571
Circulation: 213-740-4350
Reference: 213-740 6938

You are welcome to use the collection. To obtain borrowing privileges for all USC libraries except medicine and law, you may purchase a public borrower's card for $125/6 months. This card does not offer interlibrary loan privileges.

San Francisco Area

California State University, Hayward
University Library
25800 Carlos Bee Boulevard
Hayward, CA 94542-3052
circulation: 510 885-3612
reference: 510 885-3765

You are welcome to use the collection. To obtain borrowing privileges, residents of Alameda and Contra Costa counties may purchase a community borrower’s card for $50/year. You will not be eligible for interlibrary loan services.

San Francisco State University
J. Paul Leonard Library
1600 Holloway Drive
San Francisco, CA 94132
circulation: 415-338-1552
reference: 415-338-1974

You are welcome to use the collection. To obtain borrowing privileges (20 book maximum at any one time), you may join the Friends of the J. Paul Leonard Library for $45/year. This card does not offer interlibrary loan privileges.

San Jose State University
King Library
150 E. San Fernando Street
San Jose, CA 95112
circulation: 408-808-2000
reference: 408-808-2100

You are welcome to use the collection of this combined University/public library. To obtain borrowing privileges, show proof of residency to obtain a public borrower's card. This card does not offer interlibrary loan privileges.

Stanford University
Stanford University Libraries
Cecil Green Library
Stanford, CA 94305
circulation: 650-723-1493
reference: 650-725-1064
privileges office: 650-723-1492

Access to the Libraries is extended to users for 7 days a year free of charge upon registration (some form of identification is required) and on a fee basis through the Privileges Office at Green Library. Access Only: $5/day, $30/month, $80/3 months, $200/year; Access & Borrowing: $200/3 months, $500/year. You will not be eligible to use the interlibrary loan service.

University of California, Berkeley
Doe Library
Berkeley, CA 94720
circulation: 510-643-4331
reference: 510-642-6657

You are welcome to use the collection. To obtain borrowing privileges (20 book maximum at any one time), you may purchase a public borrower's card for $100/year and proof of CA residency. This card does not offer interlibrary loan privileges.

University of California, Berkeley
Social Welfare Library
227 Haviland Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
phone: 510-642-4432

You are welcome to use the collection; for borrowing, all UCB libraries honor the public borrower's card issued at the main library (see above).

University of California, San Francisco
Kalmanovitz Library
530 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94143-0840
circulation: 415-476-2336
reference: 415-476-2337

You are welcome to use the collection. To obtain borrowing privileges, you may purchase a library associate's card for $90/year and proof of CA residency. This card does not offer interlibrary loan privileges.

Sacramento

California State University, Sacramento
University Library
2000 State University Drive East
Sacramento, CA 95819
circulation: 916 278-6708
reference: 916 278-5673

You are welcome to use the collection. To obtain borrowing privileges, you may purchase a community borrower's card for $25/3 months, $50/6months, or $75/year. You will not be eligible for interlibrary loan services.