Historical policies are not all currently followed. To see the current policies please refer to the CSU+ Policies page.
CSU+ Policies (July 2017 - April 2018):
Loan Periods: Either 30 days (short) or 60 days (long).
No automated renewals.
Each campus determines what material they will lend for 30 or 60 days.
Renewals: No automated renewals.
Media Lending: CSU Libraries agree to exchange Media Items through resource sharing.
Each campus determines if they will loan their media for a short (30 day) period or a long (60 day) period.
Overdue fines: CSU libraries should not charge overdue fines for resource sharing.
An overdue notice will be emailed 3 days after the due date informing the patron that a replacement fee of the cost of the item + $15 will be charged 14 days after the book was due.
After 14 days the patron is billed and blocked from using library checkout.
If the item is returned, the replacement fee will be removed.
Loan Sequence: CSU Peer-to-Peer is used before ILLiad or InnReach.
Competing Needs: Items may be checked out to patrons at the owning site even if a CSU Peer- to-Peer Borrowing request has been received, but the book has yet to be removed from the shelf.
Reimbursement for lost books: Patron pays to his/her home library, not to the library that owned the book.
COLD requests a report on replacement fees charged by the end of June 2018 to verify that this policy does not introduce inequities.
Replacement Fee: A replacement fee of the cost of an item + $15 or an approved replacement copy will be accepted for all lost Peer-to-Peer Resource Sharing items.
Replacement copies will be approved by the owning library.
John Wenzler expressed the interpretation that b/c the replacement copy has to be approved by the owning library, a campus can implement a blanket "no replacement copy" for their own materials if they choose to do so. He thinks that interpretation was accepted by the group.
Holds and Recalls: COLD recommends that all CSU libraries stop placing holds and recalls on checked out items.
If an item is currently checked out the patron should be encouraged to place a Resource Sharing request.
Library staff may still place holds and recalls.
Primo should be configured to display RS link automatically to patron if copies are all checked out.
Course Reserves: Books and other original source material may not be requested for course reserves by another library.
Visiting Patron: We recommend that all campuses participate in Visiting Patron with data sharing between campuses.
Visiting patrons use RS peer-to-peer loan rules, not the local loan rules of the campus that they are visiting.
Data shared can be minimal: patron name, email address, barcode, and address.
Fulfillment response/turnaround time: The lending library will ship items within one business day (Monday - Friday) where the Resource Sharing department is open.
Resource Sharing requests will transfer to the next library in the rota after two business days without a response.