Term-Long Loan period for Students

Owned by Matthew Prutsman (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Apr 07, 2019 by Cathe Olson (Unlicensed)
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APPROVED Feb 2017

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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.

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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Articulate the need for the policy (background)

 



Create a Policy Statement

 



Identify and create best practice recommendations


 



Where applicable, identify and write up procedures in Alma


 



Approved by COLD

 

COLD approved a minimum one semester/quarter loan period for studentsWorking group will need to document setup of Terms of Use to make this change


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