Faculty Borrowing/Renewal Policy
The Faculty Loan period is six months with unlimited renewals. Faculty Loan materials are due twice a year, once in January and in July. Several courtesy notices will be emailed leading up to the due date. The first one will be sent a month from the due date. Faculty members may renew items by replying to the email, calling the Circulation Desk at 316-978-3582, or coming into the library.
Materials on hold by another patron cannot be renewed. Items Recalled by another patron must be returned within 3 days of the Recall Notice being emailed. If the item(s) is not returned within the 3 days, the item(s) will be considered lost.
Faculty Fines and Fees
Items not returned by the due date will be considered lost and replacement costs plus a $20 non-refundable processing fee will be transferred to WSU Accounts Receivable. You will be able to pay online through your myWSU Account Portal. https://mywsu.wichita.edu/
-Proxy borrowers are persons whom you have authorized to check out materials under your name. Typical proxy borrowers are graduate or administrative assistants. To arrange for proxy borrowers, please turn in a completed proxy borrower form for each individual to Circulation. The form will remain on file up to 3 semesters as indicated. Your assistant will not need to carry your faculty ID. Faculty members are responsible for all materials checked out in their names.
Borrowing Privileges at other libraries
Wichita State faculty members have borrowing privileges at all Kansas Regents school. Additionally the University Libraries is a member of OCLC's Reciprocal Faculty Borrowing Program. This program facilitates scholarly research by extending a range of library privileges to faculty members at participating institutions. More than 259 institutions participate in this program including UC at Berkely, Carnegie Mellon, the University of Illinois, and MIT. This membership list consists of all participating libraries. Contact the Circulation desk at librarystaff@wichita.edu or (316) 978-3582 if you have questions. To submit a request use the following link: https://wichita.libwizard.com/f/RFBP_Request. A Circulation member will contact you with status updates of your request.
