Library Services (LLC): Circulation

Call numbers are used to help you locate titles on a shelf. GRCC and most public libraries use Dewey Decimal Call Numbers to arrange titles on book and audiovisual media shelves. 4-year colleges and universities usually use the Library of Congress Classification System to arrange their much larger collections. 

At GRCC, only titles on shelves are assigned call numbers; eBooks, eJournals, and streaming media do not need call numbers, so those finding aids provide links to the web-based resources.

• Fiction titles are shelved  by author's last name in front of the 000s on the 2nd floor.
• Nonfiction titles are arranged using Dewey Decimal System (DDS) call numbers:
  • 000s-General (including computers)
  • 100s-Philosophy and Psychology
  • 200s-Religion
  • 300s-Social Sciences
  • 400s-Languages
  • 500s-Math & Natural Sciences
  • 600s-Technology (Applied Sciences)
  • 700s-Arts & Recreation
  • 800s-Literature
  • 900s-History & Geography

If you cannot find the title you need with the call number, ask for assistance at the Library Reference Desk on the 1st floor.

GRCC Library Materials: You may be able to renew them yourself!

1. Connect to RaiderSearch Catalog.
2. Logon (top right corner) with your last name and 7-digit Raider number.
3. Follow the screen prompts to renew all titles, or just the ones you mark.  Note the new due date - and you're done.
4. If you have any problems or questions about renewing, call LLC Circulation at 616-234-3872.

Interlibrary Loan Materials: Contact the RaiderLoan office at 616-234-3749.  Since the borrowed materials belong to another library, we cannot automatically renew them, but we can ask if a renewal is available.

When you select licensed resources from the Library website, a logon screen appears. 

• Type your last name and 7-digit Raider number - and you're "good to go."  (Hint - no "W" in front of #.)
• You will  be locked out of our server for 15 minutes if you enter the incorrect credentials too many times. 
• If your name & Raider # combination does not work, contact the Library Circulation Desk at 616-234-3872.

Please return library and technology materials on - or before - their due date.

• Return library titles at the Library Circulation Desk -OR- in the book drop outside the Library Lobby plaza entrance on Ransom Ave.
• Technology materials must be returned at the Library Circulation Desk. 

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Please return borrowed materials on time.  See Renewing Titles Online or call Circulation at 616-234-3872 to avoid overdue fines.

Holds:  At the end of each semester, Online Center holds are placed onto students with overdue materials.  This blocks students from getting official transcripts. 

Fines:

• 25 cents per hour for Course Reserve materials
• 25 cents per day for GRCC Library books and audio visual materials
• 50 cents per day for books and audio visual materials borrowed from other Libraries
• If more than $10 in fines are accrued, a student will be unable to check out any materials (including laptops, reserve textbooks, headphones, etc.).