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Circulation Policies

Tech Students: Must present valid Tech ID for checkout

  • Loan period: 21 days
  • Can place holds/recalls
  • Recalls change the due date to 21 days; a recall notice is mailed
  • Recalls not returned will result in blocked privileges
  • Fines are $0.25 per day with a maximum of $20.00 per item
  • Fines are $0.50 per day for recalls, and $3.00 per hour for reserve materials
  • Items overdue 30 days are considered lost and an $90.00 replacement fee is charged to the patron. Upon return of the item, the replacement fee is changed to a $20.00 overdue fine and processing fee
  • Maximum of 20 items may be charged out
  • Maximum of three renewals per item. Item can be renewed online unless overdue or on hold
  • Two overdue materials will block privileges

Tech Faculty and Staff: Must present valid Tech ID for checkout

  • Fixed due date (either the last day of Spring Quarter or last day of Summer Quarter)
  • Can place holds/recalls
  • Recalls change the due date to 21 days; a recall notice is mailed
  • Recalls not returned will result in blocked privileges
  • No fines, except for overdue interlibrary loan and lost items
  • Maximum of 50 items may be charged out
  • Maximum of three renewals per item. Item can be renewed online unless overdue or on hold
  • Two overdue materialswill block privileges

Courtesy Card: Must present valid Tech courtesy Card for checkout

  • Loan period: 21 days
  • May not place holds/recalls
  • Recalls change the due date to 21 days; a recall notice is mailed
  • Recalls not returned will result in blocked privileges
  • Fines are $0.25 per day with a maximum of $20.00 per item
  • Fines are $0.50 per day for recalls, and $3.00 per hour for reserve materials
  • Maximum of 10 items may be charged out
  • Maximum of three renewals per item. Item can be renewed online unless overdue or on hold
  • Oneoverdue will block privileges
  • Borrowing privileges are confined to local collection only

Serials Circulation Policy

The Library's policy is all periodical material should remain in the Library and be available to all Library users.

Exceptions

  • Bound periodicals are checked out for one day by faculty and graduate students only through regular checkout procedures at the Circulation Desk.
  • Unbound periodicals may be checked out by faculty only
    • A maximum of five (5) periodicals may be checked out for a maximum of two (2) hours.
    • Checkout is done at the 3rd floor Information Desk, Monday-Friday 7:30 a.m. -3:00 p.m. only.
    • Faculty may send a student assistant to check out material if 1) documentation is on fileand 2)student has a valid ID. Click here for the Checkout Form
    • Final processing of material must be done at the Circulation Desk on the main floor before leaving Library.

Return all checked out periodicals (bound and unbound) to the Circulation Desk on the main floor.

Abuse of this policy can result in loss of checkout privileges.

Replacement Cost Policy

  • Book - $80.00
  • Reference Book - $125.00
  • Compact Disc (part of book or separate cataloged item) - $80.00
  • Microform (fiche, film, card) - $225.00
  • Serials (Loose Issue, Bound Volume) - $50.00, $200.00 respectively
  • Video - $200.00
  • Government Documents are included in the above categories
    (ex. Documents Reference Book - $125.00)
  • Special Collection, Manuscripts and Archives items will be evaluated individually due to their rare nature