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20000 NW Walker Rd
Beaverton, OR 97006
503-748-1121
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OGI Library Circulation Policies
Borrower Categories | Materials
Categories | Renewals | Maximum
Items | Recall Policies |
Fines | Confidentiality Waivers
| Lost / Damaged Books | Borrower
Responsibilities
BORROWER CATEGORIES:
- Faculty/Staff loan period for books is 180 days.
- Adjunct faculty loan period for books is one quarter. (The date
is always set for the end of the quarter. If you borrow books late in the
quarter, your loan period is only the length of time to the end of the
quarter.)
- Full-time/part-time students loan period for books is one
quarter as for adjunct faculty above. Matriculated students due date is the beginning day of the next quarter.
- OGI Alumni loan period for books is 30 days.
- Card-holders
loan period for books is 30 days.
- OHSU borrowers from other schools loan period for books is 30 days.
- ORBIS Cascade Alliance Borrowers loan period for books is 21 days.
MATERIALS CATEGORIES
- Books circulate as outlined above.
- Journals circulate for one week to the first two categories of patrons.
The current issue of any journal is non-circulating.
- Reference materials a select number of reference items circulate for one day.
All other reference materials do not circulate.
- Reserve materials Reserve materials circulate during the day for a 2
hours period and may be renewed twice. Beginning two hours before library closing, materials will circulate for overnight use and are due back one hour after the library's opening. FINES OF $.25/HOUR/ITEM ARE CHARGED FOR OVERDUE RESERVE MATERIALS FOR THE FIRST TWO HOURS AND THEN FINES INCREASE TO $.50/ HOUR/ITEM. Fines are charged for the hours that the library is closed. If other patrons ask for an overdue reserve item, an additional fine of $5/request is assessed for overdue reserve materials.
RENEWALSFaculty and full-time students have up to 6 renewals; alumni, cardholders, OHSU, and ORBIS borrowers have one renewal.
MAXIMUM ITEMS Faculty and full-time students may have up to 100 items checked out at any one time; adjunct faculty and part-time matriculated
students may have up to 25 items; other part-time students have up to 10 items; cardholders have a maximum of 6 items and alumni have a maximum of 5 items.
RECALL POLICIES
- Any item can be recalled after a two weeks use if requested by another OGI patron.
IT IS EXPECTED THAT ITEMS WILL BE RETURNED PROMPTLY.
- A fine of $1/day/item will be charged for items not returned when recalled.
- If a book is needed for class reserve, it must be returned immediately regardless of the length of time that the item has been checked out.
FINES
- Fines are charged to all categories of borrowers for overdue reserve or recalled materials. Reserve overdue fines are $.25/hour/item and increase to $.50/ hour after two hours.
Fines are $1/day for recalled materials.
- Materials borrowed from Orbis libraries have overdue fines of $.50/day for the first 10 days and then $1/day thereafter.
- Except for the above instances, fines are not charged to OGI faculty, staff, or students.
- In addition to the fines mentioned above, cardholders, and Orbis Cascade borrowers pay
fines of $.25/day/item on other overdue materials.
- Any patron with accrued fines of $5 or more will not be able to borrow materials until the outstanding fines are paid.
LOST/DAMAGED BOOKS The library will charge a replacement fee
for books which have been lost or damaged beyond repair. A $15 processing fee and a $10 billing fee
will be added to the replacement cost.
In the case where a book is out of print, a default fee of $75 will be charged as replacement cost.
BORROWER RESPONSIBILITIESThe borrower is responsible for all materials checked out in her/his name. If the borrower lends the book to someone else while retaining the checkout in her/his name, it remains the responsibility of the original borrower; that borrower will incur any fines or charges.
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