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For any student especially tuned into the inner
workings of the library, at last count there were 3 of you, you may
well have noticed a vast increase in the amount of popular books
now available as holdable items instead of short term loans. This
is because we are looking at whether or not having more holdable
loans is better and provides easier access to items rather than
short term loans. This means more general loans and fewer 3 and 7
day loans. We hope this change will allow students not desperately
in need of a textbook to have more copies they can place holds on
therefore lowering the size of some of the hold queues for our
books while those students who do desperately need a textbook
should still be able to come in to the library and find a 3 or 7
day copy on the shelf. What the codes mean:
3 and 7 day loans: can only have the item for 3 or
7 days, cannot place a hold on the book, cannot renew the book,
book cannot be recalled, $2.00 a day late fees for the first 4 days
which becomes $4.00 a day after that. General
loans: can have the item for 14 days, if undergraduate, 28
if postgraduate or staff, can have for a semester loan on request,
can place a hold on the book, can renew the book, book can be
recalled, $0.20 a day late fees which becomes $0.95 a day if the
item has been recalled. |
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i must be one of those three you mention. Great to see as i usually by pass the three day loans for something useful.
Hopefully the usage statistics and feedback we receive from the trial study will agree with you which will then give us justification for changing more of our books from short loans to general loans.