Books & Media: Borrowing Policies

CSUSM students, faculty and staff with limited reciprocal borrowing for North County Community Colleges and other CSUs.

Periodicals and reference books do not circulate.

Community Borrower cards are available at a cost of $30.00.

Books
Circulating library books may be checked out at the 3rd floor circulation desk for 13 weeks for faculty and four weeks for all other patrons.

Barahona Center for the Study of Books in Spanish
Most of these books may not be checked out. However, selected duplicates may be checked out for the same periods shown above.

Media
Videos, DVDs, CDs, audio cassettes, and other formats are located in the Media Library and check out for a period of seven days.

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Books
There is a maximum checkout of:

• 100 for faculty
• 40 for graduate students
• 30 for undergraduate students
• 30 for staff
• 10 for all other categories.

Circulating Media
The checkout limit for students and staff is four of each format.

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Books
Items may be renewed two times online, at the circulation desk or by phone.

Media
Media can be renewed once online, at the circulation desk or by phone.

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Patrons may place holds (recalls) on materials checked out by another person. All materials are subject to recall after two weeks of use. Materials needed for reserve may be recalled at any time. Recalled materials are subject to fines if not returned by the prescribed date and a hold may be placed on the borrower’s record.

Holds must be placed with the Circulation Desk. When the returned item is ready for pickup you will be notified by e-mail or mail. The item will be held for the requester for one week. When material is unavailable patrons should consider using the Circuit to obtain the item from one of our consortial partners (SDSU, UCSD or USD).

Books
Overdue charges are $0.25 per day (Max. $25.00) per item.

Media Materials
Overdue fees for circulating media materials are $1.00/day.

Media Equipment
Overdue fees for media equipment are $5.00/day per item.

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Administrators are defined in this policy as Presidents, Vice Presidents, Associate Vice Presidents, Deans, and Directors.

Privileges

With a current CSUSM ID faculty and administrators are allowed the following:

• Checkout of a total of 100 items -- includes CSUSM, Circuit and Interlibrary Loan materials
• 15 requests per week for Interlibrary Loan materials

Check Out Periods

• 13 weeks for CSUSM materials (excluding media) with 2 renewals allowed
• One week for media material with onerenewal allowed
• Three weeks for Circuit materials with one renewal allowed
• Two to three weeks for Interlibrary Loan depending on the lending institution with the possibility of one renewal

Responsibilities

Faculty and administrators are responsible for the timely return of library materials. Materials not renewed or returned by the due date are considered overdue. A hold will be placed on the record of anyone who has not returned overdue materials by the time they go to billing (21 days after due date) and Library privileges will be suspended until the material is returned.

Billing amounts per item are:

• CSUSM material $59.46 (excluding media)
• Media material replacement cost
• Circuit material $140.00
• Interlibrary Loan material $71.71

Teaching Assistants/Support Staff

Faculty and administrators may grant their teaching assistants or support staff permission to check out materials in their name. A written consent form (PDF, 53K) must be filled out each semester prior to these checkouts being allowed. ID will be required at each checkout to verify that the teaching assistant or support staff is the one allowed this privilege.

Be advised that materials checked out in this manner will be on the faculty member’s / administrator’s record. Ultimate responsibility for the material belongs to the faculty member/administrator. Any overdue notices, bills or suspension of privileges will appear on the faculty member’s/administrator’s record. It is important that your teaching assistants/support staff do not abuse this privilege and check out their materials under your name.

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