Check It Out. Not!

For most students and faculty reference books are persona non grata. Not only may they be imposingly large or multivolumed, with dense blocks of text, they are prisoners of the library itself. Students frequently lose interest in a book when they learn it is not readily able to be checked out. As a solution, either many a reference title should be dissolved into the circulating collection, or they should (with a few exceptions) be fundamentally borrowable.