Borrowing Privileges & Loan Periods

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Borrowing Procedure: All Items must be properly charged out.

Reserve Access: Items on reserve for a course are available only to current Fairfield University students and professors. Professors needing to use an item on reserve for another professor's course must ask the Reserve staff to contact the professor for permission.

Item Limits: Fairfield University NetID holders - unlimited; with the exception of 2 reserve items. Guests may borrow any combination of items up to a total of 4.

Renewals: All materials except "Reserve" items may be renewed once.

Please see the chart below for details.

Borrowing Privileges & Loan Periods Table*:

 

Material	Fairfield University Students	Faculty & Staff	Others	Fines	Replacement Cost of Lost Materials
Audio (CD, music or spoken word)	7 days	7 days	7 days	.05/day	$15
Books (all items except Popular Reading)	28 days	120 days	28 days*	.05/day	$50
Books (Popular Reading)	28 days	28 days	non-circ	.05/day	$50
Center for Academic Excellence (CAE) - all items	28 days	90 days	non-circ	.05/day	$50
Computer Media (CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, Floppy Disk)	28 days	28 days	28 days*	.05/day	$75
Equipment (headphones, power cords, and miscellaneous computer accessories)	4 hrs in Library	4 hrs in Lib	4 hrs in Lib	.05/day	$50
Kits and 3-D objects	28 days	28 days	non-circ	.05/day	$100
Laptop and iPad	3 hrs	3 hrs	non-circ	$1.00/hour	$500-$1,000
Microforms	in Lib use	in Lib use	in Lib use	N/A	N/A
Reserve, in house	4 hrs in Lib (2 max)	4 hrs in Lib	non-circ	.20/hr	Varies **
Reserve, overnight	overnight (2 max) Due at 10:30 a.m.	overnight	non-circ	.20/hr	Varies **
Reserve, 3 day	3 days (2 max) Due at 10:30 a.m.	3 days	non-circ	.20/hr	Varies **
Reserve, 7 day	7 days (2 max) Due at 10:30 a.m.	7 days	non-circ	.20/hr	Varies **
Video (DVD, VHS)	7 days	7 days	7 days	.05/day	$50
Video Camera (Flip)	7 days	7 days	non-circ	$1.00/day	$150

*Fairfield Prep students & Community borrowers, and guest card carriers fall within the "Other" column. Prep students are allowed 4 books, no other format, and no renewals.
* Fairfield Prep faculty fall within the "Faculty & Staff" column.
* Adjunct faculty fall within the "Faculty & Staff" column during semester they teach.
* A longer circulation period may be granted to Fairfield University faculty members upon request.

** Please refer to type of material.

For consideration of a special borrowing request, please contact the Circulation Supervisor, Sharon Sparkman for books and the Reference and Media Librarian, Philip Bahr for media at (203) 254-4044.