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Background
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Policy Statement
- For Campuses on Semester System: 16 week total checkout (8 weeks with 1 auto renewal)
- For Campuses on Quarter System: 12 week total checkout (6 weeks with 1 auto renewal)
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A term-long loan period facilitates the needs of students who require library materials for research and study. Undergraduate students often require items for semester long research projects and Graduate students generally require research material throughout a semester and often have multiple items checked out concurrently. The automatic renewal will carry the loan period to the end of a semester and relieve staff of having to deal with issues relating to unsuccessful renewal attempts. Students will no longer have to remember to renew their material mid-semester.
- All campuses having a standardized loan period avoids confusion for library users
- Eliminates need for frequent renewals and problems resulting from unsuccessful renewal attempts
- Checked out items can be requested through
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- CSU+ where patrons will likely receive items faster than if they place a hold or recall on locally owned materials
For those campuses with more generous loan periods, we are not recommending you limit access.
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shorten loan periods to coincide with this policy.
Policy Statement
For all students (both undergraduate and graduate), set the following loan periods for all regular circulating main stack items:
- For Campuses on Semester System: 16 week minimum total checkout
- For Campuses on Quarter System: 12 week minimum total checkout
Procedures in Alma
Find a How-to Article to create appropriate TOUs, policies and Fulfillment unit rules on the Fulfillment Functional Committee page.
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Action log
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Articulate the need for the policy (background) |
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Create a Policy Statement |
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Identify and create best practice recommendations |
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Where applicable, identify and write up procedures in Alma |
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| Approved by COLD |
| COLD approved a minimum one semester/quarter loan period for students | Working group will need to document setup of Terms of Use to make this change |
Tasks to be completed
- Type your task here, using "@" to assign to a user and "//" to select a due date