Historical CSU+ Policies

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Last updated: Dec 16, 2024 by Christina Hennessey
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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.