WAC 172-168-110   Library circulation policy.  Amounts of materials loaned at a given time may be limited by demand, availability, or the discretion of the circulation manager or the librarians. All materials held past the due date, or past the revised due date resulting from a recall, are considered overdue.

     (1) General materials, government documents, and music scores have a standard loan period of thirty days, beginning the day of check out, with one opportunity for renewal.

     (2) Reference materials, bound periodicals, video recordings, or special collections materials do not circulate outside the library.

     (3) Unbound periodicals circulate for three days.

     (4) Reserve materials may be checked out for one hour, two hours, overnight, one day, two days, or three days, depending on the type of reserve requested.

     (5) Sights and sounds materials circulate for seven days.

     (6) Curriculum laboratory materials circulate for two weeks and are nonrenewable.

     (7) Prints, framed pictures, uncataloged library materials, and any small collections which may be established from time to time are loaned at the discretion of the circulation manager or the librarians.

     (8) Penalties. Violation of the loan periods in subsections (1) through (7) of this section by a library user may result in the assessment of fees or the imposition of restrictions on borrowing privileges.

     (9) Holds. Items that have holds placed on them may not be renewed.

     (10) Recall of materials. Except as noted above, borrowers are allowed two weeks of uninterrupted use before a recall may be requested. However, loaned materials may be recalled before that time for class use by a faculty member. Once a recall is issued, the borrower is given seven days to return the material; this date becomes the revised due date.

     (11) Extended loan periods. Faculty members and graduate students may check out general materials anytime within the academic quarter with the item being due at the end of that quarter. However, items checked out within the last thirty days of any academic quarter are due at the end of the following quarter. Renewal may be requested one time by graduate students and three times by faculty members. Materials loaned to faculty members and graduate students are subject to subsections (2) through (10) of this section.

     (12) Responsibility. Materials borrowed from the library remain the responsibility of the borrower until the materials have been discharged by the library.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 28B.35.120. 92-23-047, § 172-168-110, filed 11/16/92, effective 12/17/92; 82-07-064 (Resolution No. 82-02), § 172-168-110, filed 3/22/82; Order 73-10, § 172-168-110, filed 4/18/73.]