TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

Borrowing Materials

If you have any problems with borrowing materials from TMU Library, please contact us.

Inforamtion Desk

Location: 2F, Comprehensive Medical Building, Rear Building
Phone: (02)2736-1661 #2514
Email: cirlib@tmu.edu.tw
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🟡 Borrowing Terms
🟡 Overdue Penalties
🟡 Compensation
🟡 Request
🟡 Renewal
🟡 Intercampus Loan
🟡 Items Seeking Service

🟡 Borrowing Terms

Status	Check-out Limit	Loan Periods
TMU Teaching Faculty	No maximum limit	30 days
TMU Adjunct Teacher	10 items	30 days
TMU Staff	No maximum limit	30 days
Contracted Staff	No maximum limit	30 days
Research Assistant	10 items	30 days
Graduate Student	No maximum limit	30 days
Undergraduate	No maximum limit	30 days
Affiliate Hospital Clinician & Staff	No maximum limit	30 days
Alumni (with TMU Library card)	10 items	30 days
Retired Faculty (with TMU Library card)	10 items	30 days
TMU Library Member	10 items	30 days

Type of Materials	Limits	Loan Periods
Books	Varies by borrower status	30 days
Leisure DVDs / VCDs / CDs	5 items	7 days
Magazines	3 items	7 days
Reference Books	Library Use Only	--
Academic Periodicals
Theses & Dissertations
Course Reserves
Faculty Publication
Medical Audio Visual Materials
The Latest Issue Magazines
TMU Publication

🟡 Overdue Penalties
Default penalties to pay a penalty, if you want to convert to other penalties, you have to actively contact the library for modifications. The penalties are as follows:
1. Pay a penalty:
  a penalty of NT$5 will be charged for each book per day in accordance with a cumulative system.
  - The maximum cumulative penalties for each volume of foreign language books are NT$500.
  - The maximum cumulative penalties for each volume of Chinese books are NT$300.
2. Suspension (limited to the school and affiliated hospital staff):
  calculated on the basis of the penalty divided by five, in terms of days.
3. Public Service (Limited to the fellow students):
  calculated on the basis of the penalty divided by five, in terms of minutes. Less than one hour is counted as one hour.Please register your reservation in accordance with the library's public service hours.
- Each payment volume of a penalty may not be revised once the penalty has been changed.Individuals who have not returned an overdue book or who fail to comply with the penalties are not allowed to borrow any books or materials.
- Payment methods include: cash-in and remittance at the Information Desk.
- To make a remittance, please complete the application form, we will provide you with a virtual payment account number (for one payment only) via e-mail. After confirming the remittance (3 business days), and then process the system for liquidating.
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🟡 Compensation
1. If a borrowed book is defaced, has missing pages, or is lost, the borrower shall notify the library during the borrowing period; otherwise, the borrower shall be subject to overdue penalties and be required to pay within 1 month.
2. Compensation method (optional)：
  - Method 1. Principles of compensation for books and periodicals:
    1. Compensation for the purchase of the original (same ISBN) or the latest version of the same book;
    2. Academic journals are limited to the purchase of lost volumes, and leisure magazines are eligible for the latest issue if they are unable to obtain the same issue.
    3. If the book is out of print and difficult to purchase, please purchase: the same subject (can be identified by title search) and written in the same language (e.g. Foreign-language books are compensated for foreign-language books) and higher than the original price and the publication date of newer books.
    4. The book to be compensated shall not be the missing page, defaced, marked, etc.
  - Method 2. Payment for books and periodicals (Twice the current price for the lost book.)
    Every volume is calculated on the basis of double the price. When the price cannot be obtained, the Chinese at twice the price of NT$300 per volume, the foreign language is calculated at twice the price of NT$3000 per volume.
3. If the library originally purchased the public presentation edition of the audiovisual material, it will need to purchase the public presentation edition for compensation. If the audio-visual materials are a complete collection of publications and cannot be purchased on a single piece, a full set of compensation will be required.
4. If the books and materials of compensation are out of print or cannot be purchased, they shall be compensated in cash twice the market value.
5. Upon completion of the compensation for the books and materials, the right to borrow the books shall be restored.
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🟡 Request
- Online requests are only accepted as the item is checked out or the status of the item is "in transit”, “on cataloging”, “in order processing” or “on holdshelf”.
- An email notification will be sent to you as soon as the item is ready for pickup.
- Items ready for pickup are kept on the holdshelf for a maximum of 7 days.
- The maximum number of requests for TMU Library readers at one time is ten (10).
- How to request a book online?
  - Instruction
  - Go to TMU Library Catalog
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🟡 Renewal
- You can renew materials within 7 days of their due date
- You may renew checked out books as long as they have not been requested by other patrons.
- You CANNOT renew successfully when item(s) in your record is/are overdue or Item is reserved by another user.
- Media item and magazine are not part of the renewal service.
- How to renew the book online?
  - Instruction
  - Go to TMU Library Catalog
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🟡 Intercampus Loan
- You can make a phone call or visit the Information Desk to tell us the information of the item you want to borrow, such as the title, the call number, the barcode, etc. The admission library will contact the library having this item and transfer it to the library near you.
- The library you can have the borrow-returning service: TMU Library, Wan-Fang Branch Hospital library, Shuang-Ho Hospital Branch library.
- You can return the book at the counter of the libraries close to you by the borrow-returning service.
Related Link: TMU Library Catalog
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🟡 Items Seeking Service
If you are unable to find an available item on the shelf, you can fill out the “Book-Searching Request Form” at the Information Desk on the 2nd floor.

Library staff will look for the item three times after the form received and inform applicants the result of seeking in two business days.

Related Document: Book-Searching Request Form
Related Links: Library Catalog

Contact Us
Information Desk
Location: 2F, Comprehensive Medical Building, Rear Building
Tel: (02) 2736-1661 #2514

Last updated: 2022-08-31
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