a. |
All borrowers must show
a valid University Identity Card. |
b. |
Loan Categories: |
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University
Staff |
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Categories |
Quotas |
Period |
i |
Full-time members of the teaching staff # |
- General books |
- Text books |
- Multimedia |
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120 days |
120 days |
10 days* |
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ii |
Non-regular full-time members of teaching staff
(within the contract period) # |
- General books |
- Text books |
- Multimedia |
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120 days |
120 days |
10 days* |
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iii |
Non-regular non-full-time members of teaching staff
(within the contract period) # |
- General books |
- Text books |
- Multimedia |
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120 days |
120 days |
10 days* |
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iv |
Research staff |
- General books |
- Multimedia |
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v |
Visiting professors (with declaration from their departments specifying the dates of beginning and ending of contract with UM) |
- General books |
- Multimedia |
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vi |
Members of the administrative staff |
- General books |
- Multimedia |
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vii |
Retired UM staff with the title of Professor Emeritus /Emerita |
- General books |
- Multimedia |
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viii |
Retired UM staff |
- General books/Multimedia |
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University
Students |
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Categories |
Quotas |
Period |
i |
Undergraduate
students |
- General books |
- Multimedia |
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ii |
Honors College students |
- General books |
- Multimedia |
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iii |
Master’s degree/Postgraduate certificate students |
- General books |
- Multimedia |
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iv |
PhD students |
- General books |
- Multimedia |
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Others |
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Categories |
Quotas |
Period |
i |
Members of International Lady
Club of Macao (for the Fiction Collection) |
3 |
21/10 days* |
ii |
Cooperated Library Card |
3 |
21/10 days* |
iii |
Outside Users (annual fee is charged) |
3 |
21/10 days* |
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* |
The 10 days’
loaning period is applicable for all Multimedia, however:
(1) The multimedia kits
will have loan period of 120 days by teaching
members, and
(2) Any user can apply to the
Library for longer loan period than 10 days if
he/she has such a need and any such application
will be considered on a case-by-case basis. |
# |
For teaching staff, the loan items will be
automatically renewed if the due dates are in
summer holiday (15/6-31/8).
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If necessary, faculty members are allowed to
use their quotas of AV and Text books for loaning
general books. |
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c. |
No library books or
other types of library materials may be checked out
unless it has been cataloged and is issued by a member
of the Library staff in accordance with proper loaning
procedures. |
d. |
Material(s) borrowed
must be returned to the Library on or before the due
date. |
e. |
Library materials other
than the Circulation Collection are not to be taken out
of the Library. Under exceptional circumstances users
may obtain special permission from the Librarian's
Office to borrow such materials for a short duration of
time. |
f. |
The Library may suspend
its borrowing operation during the period of conducting
its inventory on book stacks. In such a case, an
announcement will be made to that effect at least one
week in advance. |
g. |
Academic staff can
request certain library materials be placed on the
reserved section for class use purpose. |
h. |
"Recall" policy: The
loan items may be recalled by the teaching members,
master and doctoral students and it must then be
returned to the Library within 14 days. Late return will
be fined on an overdue basis. |
i. |
Readers can renew the loan items by themselves in the Library Webpage (My Library Account) or informing the Library via letter, email (lib_renewal@umac.mo)
or bringing the loans to the Circulation Counter. The academic members are subject to six consecutive times of renewal and other users, three. |
j. |
Overdue notice and
penalty: Borrowers are responsible for returning their
loans on or before the due date. In case of late return,
borrowers will receive overdue notice and suspension of
the borrowing privileges as presented hereunder.
Notices |
Penalty |
Remark |
Pre-overdue Alert Notice (3 days
prior to the items' due date) |
None |
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1st
Notice (loan item is overdue for 3 days) |
Suspension of borrowing
privileges |
The borrowing privilege will be
immediately resumed after the loans are
returned. |
2nd Notice (loan item is
overdue for 10 days) |
Suspension of borrowing
privileges for 14 days |
It will be counted after the loans
are returned. |
3rd
Notice (loan item is overdue for 17 days) |
Suspension of borrowing
privileges for 30 days |
It will be counted after the loans
are returned. |
Final Notice (loan item is overdue for 31 days) |
Twice the original price or current estimated price of the loan item, or return it plus handling charges at MOP 60.00 |
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If the
material has been recalled three times without getting
compliance, or after the deadline for books on the
recall status, the delinquent borrower will be charged
as if the book were lost.
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k. |
In the case of overdue
or book missing, borrowers will automatically be
suspended from further borrowing. |
l. |
Borrowing of journals:
(1) This service is applicable only for academic
members.
(2) The loaning quotas are two bound or non-bound
volumes of journals could be checked out each time for
maximum duration of two library opening days and no
renewal is allowed.
(3) Checking out of journals is restricted to twice a
week per academic member.
(4) Borrowings of journals are restricted to 100
units per day.
(5) No journal holding request is entertained.
(6) Checked out item(s) not returned on the fourth
day will be charged as missing.
(7) Penalty for journal overdue is calculated at MOP
50.00 per item for each overdue day and borrowings will
be suspended until the items are returned.
(8) Penalty for missing journal is calculated at
three times of its original
price. |