Checkout Rules and Borrowing Information
It is your responsibility to keep track of your items and their due dates. All checkouts, due date reminders, overdue and lost reminders, and return confirmation emails are sent to your email.
- 禄 Items Available for Checkout
- General Collection - books, music, movies, and more that are located on the 3rd floor
- Popular Collection - popular books and DVDs located on the 2nd floor
- Course Reserves - items on reserve for courses; located at the Front Desk (not for Community Borrowers)
- Permanent Reserves - books located on the 2nd floor near the Front Desk (not for Community Borrowers)
- InterLibrary Loan (ILL) - items borrowed from other libraries (not for Community Borrowers)
- Umbrellas - located at the Front Desk (not for Community Borrowers)
- 禄 麻豆果冻传媒 Users (students and employees)
- All Tech users must have an Eagle Card in order to check out items.
- All loans can be monitored using through EagleSearch. If your items have not been deemed lost (10+ days overdue), you must use My Library Account to renew items that are eligible for renewal.
- All checkouts, due date reminders, overdue and lost reminders, and return confirmation emails are sent to your TNTECH email.
- There is no limit to the number of items you may borrow.
- Once an employee or student leaves the university, they may become a community borrower. However, they cannot get a community borrower account until their employee/student library account is clear of all checkouts and fines.
- 禄 Community Borrowers
- Anyone with a current, valid, government-issued ID can get a Community Borrower account.
- Community Borrowers MUST have a valid, active email account. Checkout and due date confirmations, overdue notices, and return confirmations are sent via email and are your way to track items you've borrowed.
- Renewing items may be possible, but you must bring the items and inquire at the Front Desk in person. We will not renew items automatically or over the phone.
- To return items you are not interested in renewing, you must bring all items to the Front Desk or deposit them in the 24/7 book drop (outside the front doors on the brick wall to the left) by or before the due date.
- You may only have 45 borrowed items at any given time.
- You may not borrow items if you have any overdue items on your account or any unpaid fines/fees.
- If your items are overdue for 10+ days, they are considered lost. The lost fee is $100 per item, or you can purchase a replacement.
- If you have unpaid fines/fees on your community borrower account for more than 60 days, your balance will be sent to a collection agency for payment.
- The second time your account is sent to a collection agency for payment, your community borrower privileges will be suspended for four years.
- 禄 Checkout Durations
Regular Collection Popular Collection Course Reserves* Permanent Reserves* Reference & Journals ILL (InterLibrary Loan)* Umbrellas* Undergraduate 30 days^ 30 days^ 2 hours or 4 days 7 days n/a ILL checkout
durations vary.
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on ILl items4 days Graduate 90 days^ 30 days^ 2 hours or 4 days 7 days n/a 4 days Employee 365 days^ 30 days^ 2 hours or 4 days 7 days n/a 4 days Community Borrower 45 days 45 days n/a 7 days n/a n/a n/a ^You can only renew these items two times before you must bring them back in person; if no one is waiting for them, you can check them out again.
*These items are not renewable.
- 禄 Account Expiration
Students: All student accounts expire at the end of the latest semester for which they are registered.
If students wish to avoid disruption in library privileges, they must be registered for a future semester before their current semester ends. When a student registers for an upcoming semester, their library account is created/updated overnight.
Employees: Employee accounts are deactivated approximately 30 days before they leave the university. Due dates will be changed to be due before they leave the university.
Community Borrowers: Community Borrower accounts are active for one year and can be reactivated in-person.
- 禄 Renewing Items
Tech Students and Employees:
You must renew your items in .If you cannot renew an item in My Library Account, you must bring it to the Front Desk to return it and check it out again. We will not renew items automatically or over the phone. You are limited to two renewals on eligible items.
Community Borrowers:
Renewing items may be possible, but you must bring the items and inquire at the Front Desk in person. We will not renew items automatically or over the phone. - 禄 Item Limits
Only community borrowers have a limit to the number of items they can borrow (see Community Borrowers section above). Tech employees and students may borrow as many items as they wish.
