Interlibrary loan rules
Guides
- Readers may borrow materials for home use if the Library holds 03 or more copies of them, or if the Library's rules allow them to be borrowed.
- Borrowers and loan periods:
- Students may borrow 03 items per loan.
- Lecturers, graduate students and doctoral candidates may borrow 05 items per loan.
The maximum loan period is 02 weeks, renewable once for 01 more week. Overdue items incur a fine of VND 1,000 per item per day.- When receiving borrowed materials, readers must check their condition. Torn or missing pages must be reported to the Librarian immediately. Readers are responsible for compensating for any damage found on return compared with the condition at checkout.
- Readers must take good care of books while they are on loan. Damage to books (tearing, water damage, missing pages, missing barcodes, writing, etc.) will be handled under the Library's rules.
- If materials are lost, readers must provide compensation according to the following rules
- For Vietnamese- or foreign-language books still available on the market, readers must buy and return exactly the same book (same title, author, year and publisher) and pay a processing fee (security tag, label, stamp, barcode) of VND 20,000 per book.
- For Vietnamese- or foreign-language books no longer on the market but with a price printed on the cover or recorded in the Library's purchase documents, readers must pay twice the cover price plus a processing fee (security tag, label, stamp, barcode) of VND 20,000 per book.
- For Vietnamese- or foreign-language books no longer on the market and with no price on the cover or in the Library's purchase documents, readers must pay VND 2,000 per page for Vietnamese-language books or VND 10,000 per page for foreign-language books, plus a processing fee (security tag, label, stamp, barcode) of VND 20,000 per book.