Circulation Policy  Are you faculty, student or staff? | Do you have a CCALD/CLC card?

• Designated materials circulate to current faculty, students and staff only. 

• All current students, faculty, and staff are eligible to register for a library patron record with their current Lyme Academy College ID card.  

• All current students are eligible to obtain a card from the Library with their current registration & proof of payment in full or deferred payment plans for the current term. 

• From the first day of the semester to the last day of each semester students may check out books and videos from our circulating stacks. 

• Library cards, which function also as College ID cards,  will be created & distributed by the Library. 

• Student Borrowing Time: Books:  loan duration is 28 days or it is related to the duration of classes when class duration is less than 28 days, as applicable. 

• Student Borrowing Time: Videos:  loan duration is 14 days or it is related to the duration of classes when class duration is less than 14 days, as applicable.

• Faculty Borrowing Time: loan duration is related to the duration of the given semester; all materials are due back at the end of each term.

• Student Circulation Limits: Books: 10 / Videos: 4. 

• Faculty Circulation Limits: Books: 25 / Videos: 4.    

• All students must present their current Lyme Academy College ID card.  All books must be returned no later than the last day of each semester.  Books and videos may be renewed upon request, barring any outstanding hold requests from other patrons. 

• Request loan extensions before the due date to avoid overdue fines in person or by phone.

• Overdue fines are charged at 25 cents per day.  Long overdue materials will result in the patron losing their library privileges.  Lost or Damaged materials will result in the patron being billed for the re-purchase and processing of a replacement book or video.  Replacement costs often need to be calculated on an item by item basis.  A minimum $65.00 charge will be billed for books.  Books valued at higher than the minimum charge will be bill at the higher rate plus a minimum $15.00 fee for the physical and record processing. 

• For titles not available in the Library’s collection, it is possible to obtain them via Interlibrary Loan. Processing a request & receiving the materials, if loaned, can take from 2-6 weeks. Please ask Library staff about this service.

Privileges at other Libraries

 The library has a formal agreement with the local public library to extend our users' access to resources. All students and faculty may borrow materials at the Old Lyme Public Library by registering with the public library with their LymeAcademy Library ID. 

CCALD Borrowing Privileges 

Full-time or permanent part-time faculty, staff or doctoral students at one of the participating CCALD colleges and universities, of which LACFA is one, may borrow materials from any of the other participating institutions’ libraries.

• A faculty, staff member or doctoral student completes the borrowing agreement form at his or her own institution’s library, agreeing to comply with the lending libraries’ policies.

• A CCALD Reciprocal Library Borrowing card will be issued to the faculty, staff member or doctoral student for use at participating CCALD libraries. 

• The card will be valid for the current semester.

• Each borrower will be issued a chart that includes lending policies, fine rates, and billing information of the member libraries.

• New cards will be issued on a semester by semester basis by the parent library, after updating the agreement form.

• The parent library retains the right to deny a new card to any patron who has not adhered to his or her obligations as outlined in the borrowing agreement.

• No member library may authorize CCALD Borrowing Privileges for faculty, staff or doctoral students from another institution.

Transactions shall be made under the policies of the lending library, including:

• Loan period

• Material types lent

• Fine rates

• Fine maximums

• Billing rates

Please contact the Krieble Library staff with any questions or for enrollment.