We are in the process of re-evaluating our circulation policy, which currently allows students a 2-week borrowing period for all non-reference materials. As a result, we frequently lend out extremely expensive, oversized art books, which in many cases cost more than the $75 replacement fee that we charge (if they can even be replaced). This is also complicated by the fact that we have another campus whose students frequently request our books, and whose staff is not always diligent about following up on lost items. We have been compiling an informal listing of circulation policies at other academic art/architecture libraries, as found on your Web sites, but it would be helpful to know how you arrived at your current policies as we reconsider ours. As a non-residential college it would be very difficult for our students if we stopped lending books. Do you keep reference and circulating copies of heavily used materials? Do you have a non-circulating "core collection"?
Thanks.
Lauren Gilbert
Reference Librarian
Art and Architecture Library
New York Institute of Technology
Old Westbury, New York 11568
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