Term-Long Loan period for Students

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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 (goes to static archive - need to update)