Borrowing Privileges

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• Borrowing Privileges

  Overdue Penalties

  Compensation

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• Borrowing Privileges
  
  

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  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
  Doctoral & Master 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

   

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  Type of Materials	Limits	Loan Periods
  Books	Varies by borrower status	30 days
  Leisure Audio Visual Materials	5 items	7 days
  Leisure Series	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
  Newspaper

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• 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.

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  • 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.

   

   

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

   

  Updated: 2021-07-19

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