Request and Renewal Guides |
Renewal Guide
·Readers who gain access to Chinese Books Loan Stack I, Chinese Books Loan Stack II and Loan and Reading Room for Chinese Books in the Library of Ancient Books can renew borrowed items. At present, foreign materials cannot be renewed.
·Readers can use their own reader's card (within the effective period and with no owed fee) to log on the OPAC of the NLC to renew items.
·Every item can be renewed once. The renewed period is 31 days, which is counted immediately at the day of renewal.
·It is invalid to renew items borrowed while borrowing is done at the same day.
·Items that are overdue or items requested by other readers are not renewable.
Request Guide
·Readers who gain access to Chinese Books Loan Stack I, Chinese Books Loan Stack II and Loan and Reading Room for Chinese Books in the Library of Ancient Books can request borrowed items.
·Readers can use their own reader's card (within the effective period and with no owed fee) to log on the OPAC of the NLC to request items.
·Requests can be made only when books are borrowed (including being renewed).
·If a borrowed book is requested by many readers, priority is given to the one who requests the book first.
·If the requested book is not returned within the request period, the request will be cancelled automatically.
·Readers should check for the status of the book frequently. When the status of the book states as “ready for pick up”, the reader should go to the library to borrow the book. The request of the book will be cancelled automatically after 7 days and readers have to pay violating fine 0.3 yuan for each book.
Approach to Violation of Rules
·Bringing out books that are non-borrowable
Readers who bring out books that are non-borrowable without permission must pay the fee for 3-5 yuan per item per day.
·Overdue
Overdue fee for overdue items: Chinese item: 0.30 yuan per item per day. Foreign item: 0.50 yuan per item per day.
·Loss
- Readers who lose library items must claim the loss and make effort to find the item devotedly. Readers can replace the lost item with the same item with the same edition (or the same item with a newer edition consented by the library) and pay 5 yuan for the processing fee.
- Readers who lose library items have 1 month to buy and replace the lost item and cannot borrow items in the library. If readers cannot replace the same item with the same edition (or the same item with a newer edition consented by the library), fine should be paid according to the following standards:
·For books published within the country: 2-5 times of the actual value of the book plus 5 yuan processing
Fee
·For books published overseas: 3-5 times of the actual value of the book plus 7 yuan processing fee
·For loss of one of the volumes within a title, the actual value of the title is paid. The other volumes cannot be taken after the compensation.
·For books that prices are not marked, fees are paid with reference to similar book price.
·Damages
- Fine for who write, alter, and damage general library items: 5-20 yuan (according to the level of damage). For readers who damage items heavily which affects the use of the book, the actual value of the book is fined.
- Readers who write, alter, damage rare books will be penalized according to the Heritage Conservation Law.
·Tearing
Readers who cut and tear pages on books must pay the actual value of the book. If they cannot pay the book price within a specific period, they have to pay 2-5 times of the actual price. In severe cases with bad attitude of readers, the reader's card of the reader will be cancelled (Deposit acts as the compensation fee). The organization the reader belongs to will be informed and legal actions will be taken. For those who do not belong to any organizations, they will be sent to the police.
·Theft
The reader's card of the theft will be cancelled. The organization the reader belongs to will be informed and legal actions will be taken.
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