Borrowing Policies

General Policies
Loan Periods
Holds and Recalls
Overdue Notices
Fines/Replacement Costs

Reserves for Students
Reserves for Faculty

Faculty/Staff Overdues
Teaching Assistants

CBB
MaineCat
NExpress

Overdue Policy for Faculty and Staff Members

Faculty/Staff borrowing privileges are suspended when:

  1. Recalled materials are overdue.
  2. A faculty or staff member fails to respond to a formal request from the College Librarian to return overdue materials.
  3. Payment for lost or damaged materials is not received.

When borrowing privileges are suspended, affiliates of the faculty or staff member may also be suspended.

Bates College Faculty and Staff Library Replacement Policy
Faculty and staff members are responsible for all materials borrowed using their Bates Card. Faculty members are also responsible for materials borrowed on Teaching Assistants Cards.

Replacement Costs
Faculty and Staff of Bates College are liable for the price of replacing any material that is lost or damaged, as well as the processing fee. Checks should be made payable to Ladd Library, Bates College.

Replacement Cost
refunded if item returned
Processing Fee
refunded if item returned
Billing Fee
non-refundable
Please note: All overdue recalled materials are fined an additional $2.00 per day.
Ladd Books, Scores, Maps
Market Price or $50.00$25.00$2.50

U.S. and Maine State Government Documents
Market Price or $50.00$25.00$2.50

Interlibrary Loan
Market Price or $55.00$44.00$2.50

Circulating and Non-circulating DVDs, Videos, CDs and LPs
Market Price or $50.00$25.00$2.50


See the CBB Borrowing Policy for more information about replacement charges for materials borrowed from Bowdoin and Colby.

MaineCat Policies are available at http://www.state.me.us/msl/about.html , and Nexpress information is at http://nexpress.iii.com/screens/about/index.html


Page author: Julie Retelle
Date: 10.06.09


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