Term-Long Loan period for Students

Background

A term-long loan period facilitates the needs of students who require library materials for research and study.

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 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 shorten loan periods to coincide with this policy.

For all students (both undergraduate and graduate), set the following loan periods for all regular circulating main stack items:

Find a How-to Article to create appropriate TOUs, policies and Fulfillment unit rules on the Fulfillment Functional Committee page.

Section	Point Person	Expected Completion Date	Last action taken	Next action required

Section	Expected Completion Date	Last action taken	Next action required
Articulate the need for the policy (background)	Oct 14, 2016
Create a Policy Statement	Nov 11, 2016
Identify and create best practice recommendations	Nov 11, 2016
Where applicable, identify and write up procedures in Alma	Nov 11, 2016
Approved by COLD	Feb 9, 2017	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

Type your task here, using "@" to assign to a user and "//" to select a due date