Member Services: Reciprocal Borrowing Agreement
The higher education institutions which are members of the Portland Area
Library System (PORTALS) participate in a cooperative inter-lending
library service for their students, faculty and staff subject to the
following conditions and procedures.
- Registration
Participants in the program must present current school identification to
the lending institution. Each library will provide to each other
participating library a sample I.D. Card (or cards) for students, faculty
and staff, and instructions for determining current validity.
- Financial Responsibility
The borrower's home library has ultimate financial responsibility for
overdue and lost books. Fines incurred will reflect the lending school's
policies. All invoice payments are due within 60 days.
- Information
Each participating library will prepare a statement of checkout periods,
circulation policies, fine procedures, and other pertinent information.
Each participant library will insure, to the best of its ability, that
students, faculty, and staff are fully informed of their privileges and
responsibilities as participants in the reciprocal borrowing program.
- Faculty, Staff and Graduate Students
Institutions may limit borrowing by faculty, graduate students, and staff
of the participating institutions to five (5) monographic items at any one
time, subject to the policies and procedures of the lending institution.
- Undergraduate Students
Undergraduate students may be limited to the maximum loan of five (5)
monographic items at any one time from a lending library, and lending
institutions may require that the student's need be established and
approved by a professional librarian at the student's home library.
- Limits
The lending institution shall have discretionary power to both limit and
prohibit loans of materials to all users, irrespective of the approval
noted above.
For institutions of higher education, participation in this agreement is
one of the expectations of membership in PORTALS. Revision of this
agreement requires approval of the Board of Directors of PORTALS. If the
agreement is terminated, all outstanding materials will be recovered and
all financial obligations will be discharged by the parties to this
agreement before the agreement is considered to be dissolved.
Approved by the Board, February 9, 1994
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