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POLICY NO.: L:V:02 REVISED: May 29, 2002
SUPERSEDES POLICY NO.: L:V:02 DATED: June 23,
1992
SUBJECT: INTERLIBRARY LOAN POLICY
APPROVED: DEBORAH FETCH, LIBRARY DIRECTOR
I. Borrowing
A. Purpose:
The Interlibrary Loan Service provides the
students, faculty, administration and staff of Austin Peay
State University, and area residents with a means of
acquiring needed research materials unavailable in Woodward
Library.
B. Materials That May Be Borrowed:
Anything of an informative value,
irrespective of format, subject to the provisions,
limitations, and restrictions of the lending library, the
National Interlibrary Loan Code, and the Tennessee State
Interlibrary Loan Code.
C. Qualified Users:
Students, faculty, administration and staff
of Austin Peay State University and area residents.
D. Fees:
1. APSU Faculty, Staff & Students
No charge for requests. Borrowers are encouraged to use
discretion and request items needed for classes, research and related
activities.
2. Non-APSU Patrons $15.00 (prepaid) Plus all costs charged
by lending library upon receipt.
E. Fines
A fine of $1 per day past the due date will be assessed for
all interlibrary loans (not photocopies) for all categories of users (APSU faculty, staff,
administration, students, and area residents).
F. Copyright Compliance:
Woodward Library observes and holds in strict compliance the Copyright Law of the United
States, Public Law 94-553, and the CONTU Guidelines for
interlibrary arrangements.
II. Lending
A. Purpose:
To make the resources of Woodward Library
available to other libraries through interlibrary loan.
B. Borrowers:
Following a determination that the requested
material(s) is not immediately required for its primary
clientele, defined as students, faculty, administration, and
staff of Austin Peay State University, requests are filled
giving priority first to Tennessee libraries, then to
southeastern libraries including Arkansas, defined as the
region served by SOLINET or contiguous to Tennessee, and then
to libraries outside the SOLINET region.
C. Duration of Loan:
Three weeks from receipt of material, subject
to recall, with one renewal subject to the approval of the
interlibrary loan librarian.
D. Restrictions:
The following are not normally loaned:
reference materials, reserve materials, audiovisual materials
with the exception of designated videocassettes, periodicals
(bound or microfilm) excluding newspapers on microfilm, University Archives & Special Collections
materials, and non-circulating federal
government publications.
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