End of Fall Semester FAQ
Due Dates
Most books, scores, and government documents are due on
December
17. 2012. If you are completing work due during the reading and exam periods,
you may keep semester loan items for a few extra days without being fined. If you wish
to keep library materials during the holiday shutdown or beyond, please
renew them. Remember that special due dates still apply to reserve
materials, periodicals, recalled items, interlibrary loans, OhioLINK
materials and other short-term loan items, and you will be responsible
for fines if these items are returned overdue. We expect you to honor due dates during Winter Term. Please plan to renew materials due during Winter Term, and be prepared to return them if they are not renewable.
Checking your Library Record
You may produce a list of all the items currently checked
out to you by using the
"View your library record" option in OBIS;
you can also display and print lists of unpaid
fines. Please contact a circulation supervisor at your earliest
convenience if you believe our records to be in error.
Fines for Overdue Materials
- Recalled items are fined at a rate of $10/day. Recalled items are due at the time indicated on your notice.
- Periodicals from the Main and Conservatory Libraries are fined at a rate of $1/day.
- Periodicals from the Science Library are fined
at a rate of $0.50/hour. Be sure to return or renew them
by their due dates.
Interlibrary loan materials are fined at a rate of $1/day.
OhioLINK and SearchOhio materials are fined at a rate of $0.50/day.
Deadlines
Scholar studies, carrels, and lockers must be cleared by 4:30 pm ,
Saturday, December 22 . Failure to clean out your
carrel, locker, or scholar study by the deadline will result in a $20.00
charge. You are responsible for the safe return, in good condition, of all materials
checked out to you according to our records. This includes items that you have been
using in-house, in carrels, lockers, or scholar studies.
If you are leaving library materials in a scholar study or carrel for shutdown and/or Winter Term, please be aware that the green, in-house use streamers must be date stamped so that we know that your books are not overdue. Be sure to ask the circulation desk staff to date stamp your renewals and new check-outs if you are not offered that service.
Renewals and Winter Term Privileges
All Oberlin College Library materials must be returned by the
end of the exam period, unless you have made other arrangements at
the lending library. Keeping any library materials overdue will result
in our holding your enrollment next semester. Graduating students
will be billed for the replacement and processing costs of unreturned
materials. Each campus library has its own
policy
for the loan of materials to continuing students over the shutdown
and Winter Term. Please contact a staff supervisor if you need more
information about these policies.
NOTE: Graduating students who
remain in the area may become alumni borrowers. Ask for a
copy of the
courtesy
borrowing privileges at the circulation desk for more information.
Please contact
Allison
Gallaher, Head of Circulation, or another circulation supervisor
if you have any questions about our policies.
Thank you for your cooperation!