Summary: Follow these steps to get a library copy (debit) card to use in all UCSD libraries.
Payment methods
What to do
Pay by cash.
Card Service Center
Purchase a library copy card for $1 at any self-serve card service center in the libraries. (The card itself costs 50 cents, and the remaining 50 cents will be preloaded onto the card to apply to your first five copies.)
Add value to the card by inserting cash into the self-serve machines.
Locations of self-serve machines:
Geisel Library:
Imprints Copy Center, main floor, east of circulation desk
Reference section, main floor, Information Desk
Periodicals section, first floor
Science & Engineering Library: main floor, lobby (first floor, east wing of Geisel Library)
Social Sciences & Humanities: main floor, reference section (main floor, west wing of Geisel Library)
Biomedical Library: main floor, second floor copy room
International Relations & Pacific Studies Library: main floor
Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library: main floor and second floor copy rooms
CLICS Library: Galbraith Hall, main floor
Medical Center Library in Hillcrest: main floor and second floor copy rooms