Faculty/Academic Professionals

 Continuing Policies and New Benefits

• Will be able to differentiate between "requesting" an item via the online catalog and actually having that item charged to a user's ID, eliminating user liability for in-transit material.
• Ability of users to view online a list of all library materials currently requested, charged out, or billed on their accounts, and to easily renew all items.
• Continued policy of no limit on numbers of items that can be checked out.
• Continuation of current loan periods.
• Continuation of "no fines" policy, except for overdue recalled items.

 New Limits and Billing Policies

• Limit of 10 renewals (approximately 3 years for monographs) for most items before material must be returned or renewed in person.
• Limit of one overdue recall before borrowing privileges are blocked. Daily fine for overdue recalled items.
• Limit of 10 "claim returned" items.
• Limitation on dollar amount owed for billed items before borrowing privileges are blocked.

Graduate Students

 Continuing Policies and New Benefits

• Will be able to differentiate between "requesting" an item via the online catalog and actually having that item charged to a user's ID, eliminating user liability for in-transit material.
• Ability of users to view online a list of all library materials currently requested, charged out, or billed on their accounts, and to easily renew all items.
• Continued policy of no limit on numbers of items that can be checked out.
• Loan periods will be extended to match those of faculty.

 New Limits and Billing Policies

• Limit of 10 renewals (approximately 3 years for monographs) for most items before material must be returned or renewed in person.
• Will be fined for overdue material.
• Limit of one overdue recall before borrowing privileges are blocked. Daily fine for overdue recalled items.
• Limit of 10 "claim returned" items.
• Limitation on dollar amount owed for billed items before borrowing privileges are blocked.

Undergraduate Students

 Continuing Policies and New Benefits

• Will be able to differentiate between "requesting" an item via the online catalog and actually having that item charged to a user's ID, eliminating user liability for in-transit material.
• Ability of users to view online a list of all library materials currently requested, charged out, or billed on their accounts, and to easily renew all items.
• Continued policy of no limit on numbers of items that can be checked out.
• Continuation of current loan periods and fines policy.

 New Limits and Billing Policies

• Limit of 10 renewals (approximately 10 months for monographs) for most items before material must be returned or renewed in person.
• Limit of one overdue recall before borrowing privileges are blocked. Daily fine for overdue recalled items.
• Limit of 10 "claim returned" items.
• Limitation on dollar amount owed for billed items before borrowing privileges are blocked.

Other Changes with the new DRA library system:

 Managing your library account

• You will be able to look at your own account and determine what you have checked out and what you have requested.
• Renew items yourself, online, up to 10 times.
• Books requested from another ILCSO member institution will not be charged to your account until you pick them up.
• The ability to see online whether you have any outstanding fines.

Other policy changes include:

• An individual who does not return a recalled book by the date specified on the recall notice will be charged fines of $1.00 per day, and may have his or her borrowing privileges blocked until the book is returned.
• If fines exceed $400, or if a patron has three or more "assumed lost" records on his or her account, borrowing privileges will be blocked.
• Items from any UIUC Library or any ILCSO library may be returned to any library unit on campus, regardless of where the patron originally charged them out.
• After 10 renewals, items must be returned to the library, or renewed in person with the item in hand.
• Use of the social security number as your library account number will be discontinued. Instead, the 14-digit number above the barcode on your "I" card and a four-digit pin number will be used to personally access your borrower record.
• The loan period for graduate students will be lenthened from 4 weeks to 16 weeks in most cases. Graduate students will, however, be subject to overdue fines.
• Faculty will be fined for overdue recalled items.
• The ability to cut and paste citations into documents and bibliographies and to e-mail citations to your account will continue.

Access to the Catalog

Access to the Illinet Online catalog in the libraries at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will continue to be available through the new Gateway interface. On or about August 4, you will be able to choose between a web interface or a telnet interface for your catalog searching.

Overdue books/fines

When books or journals become overdue, two notices are sent. With the implementation of a new circulation system Fall 1998, Undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and staff members are all subject to fines. The fine for books is $.30 per day. For bound journals, the fine is $.50 per day. The maximum fine is $10.00 each time a volume is overdue, but an additional disciplinary fine may be assessed. When the material is 34 days overdue, the book status is changed to "Assumed Lost" and a billing notice is sent. All patrons, including faculty members, are assessed lost book charges if another patron is waiting to use the book or if it is one month overdue. The MINIMUM charge for a lost book from the Mathematics Library is $100.00. Patrons, including graduate students, are also responsible for fines on reserve books. Fines on daily items are $5.00 for the 1^st day and $1.00 per day from day 2-45. Hourly items are billed at a rate of $2.00 for the first hour and $1.00 each hour after that for 48 hours. The Mathematics Library staff does not collect fines or lost book charges. You should pay as directed on the invoice sent by the University Business Office. The Mathematics Library clerk will help you with problems concerning fines, lost book billings, etc. You are requested to return all books and journals to the Library before leaving the campus for any extended period including summers and sabbatical leaves. Students & Faculty may borrow books from other institutions through inter-library loan. Books borrowed through inter-library loan are subject to the fine policy of the institution from which they were borrowed. Faculty and graduate students should be aware that they may be fined for overdue books from these libraries. Failure to pay such fines can result in the suspension of ALL borrowing privileges. You are requested to return all books and journals to the Library before leaving the campus for any extended period including summers and sabbatical leaves.