Gilreath, 'Ninety-Day Loan Trial Period Extended to All Graduate Students', NCSU Libraries Newsletter v23n06 (January 1996)
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_The NCSU Libraries Newsletter_
Volume 23 no. 6
January 1996
Gilreath, Charles
"Ninety-Day Loan Trial Period Extended to All Graduate 
Students"


At its last meeting of the fall semester, NC State's University 
Library Committee approved a trial extension of ninety-day 
loan privileges to all NCSU graduate students to run through 
the summer term.  Currently, the extended loan period has been 
available only to faculty, doctoral students, and individuals 
who have been approved for "Research Loan" privileges. During 
the trial period, all master's level students will automatically 
be authorized by the library's circulation system for ninety-
day loans and will not need to request research loan privileges.

The staff in the Access Services Department will gather data 
during the spring and summer in order to assess the impact of 
extended loans on availability of materials.  In addition, they 
will increase efforts to alert all users to the availability of 
services such as holds, recalls, and book searches for missing 
items.

This trial is one among several changes introduced this 
academic year aimed at increasing responsiveness on library 
services for library users.  In July the Access Services 
Department implemented a self-check workstation in the D. H. 
Hill Library that enables users to check out most of the 
circulating materials on their own and avoid lines at 
circulation desks.  During the fall semester they also 
introduced two new services for re-newing library materials-
-a telephone renewal module connected to the online 
information system (reachable at ext. 5-6065) and an e-mail 
renewal request option--reachable at:

Library_Circulation@ncsu.edu