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Isothermal Community College P.O. Box 804, Spindale NC 28160 (828) 286-4636 fax (828) 286-8208 For more information, contact Director of Library Services Charles P. Wiggins |
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Library Services for Students
Circulation of Materials
Any person who wishes to borrow material from the library collections of Isothermal Community College must have a valid library card issued by a CMC Library Consortium member library. (See Page 2 for a list of CMC member libraries.) Scanners at Circulation desk terminals are used at checkout to read the unique barcode number from a person's library card and from each item borrowed.
A library card can be obtained free of charge by inquiring at the library Circulation desk and filling out a Library Registration slip. To qualify for a card issued by the college library, a person must be:
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At least 14 years old
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And is either:
a. currently enrolled in one or more curriculum courses at Isothermal Community College, or
b. a resident of, works in, or pays taxes in Rutherford County or Polk County, NC
A person must also provide identification information from a recognized form
of identification such
as a driver's license. Replacement fee for a lost library card is $1.00.
When you are issued a library card, you agree to be responsible for all materials and services accessed through its use. If another person made use of your card with or without your knowledge, you would be held responsible for payment of all library fines and fees which were incurred through use of that card, and your library account would become delinquent until you paid for the items. |
Borrowing Materials
Borrowing Materials from the College Library
The chart below contains general information regarding types of
normally-circulating library materials at the college library and the number of each type of item that can be checked out
by a student at one time, as well as the loan period and number of renewals allowed
for each type. (A "business day" is any day the library is open.)
Inquire at the Circulation desk for information regarding circulation policies
for books in specific collections (such as those on Reserve).
| Type of Material | Item Limit | Loan Period | Renewal Limit |
| Book |
30* |
30 days |
1 (2 week period) |
| Audiotape | 5 | 30 days | 1 (2 week period) |
|
CD |
5 |
30 days |
1 (2 week period) |
| Videotape | 4 | 3 business days | 1 (3 business days) |
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DVD |
4 |
3 business days |
1 (3 business days) |
*Limitations by collection are applied within this total, such as Nonfiction—20, Fiction—5, etc. Check with the staff at the Circulation desk for more information.
Placing Holds
When an item you wish to check out is already checked out to someone else you may have
a "hold" placed on it. Then when
the item is
returned and checked in, a notice flag with your name and phone number is printed
out
to alert the library staff to hold the item and call to let you know that
it is
now available to be checked out. Ask for this service at the Circulation desk.
Borrowing Materials from CMC Libraries
Please note: For the information of those
familiar with the small library previously located in Isothermal's Polk campus
building, the library materials once housed there have been
merged into either Isothermal's Spindale campus library collection or into the
collection of Polk County
Public Library, which is now located in a new building on the college's Polk campus (see the Polk County Library's website at
http://publib.polknc.org),
although a few items remain at the Polk campus for reference use by the staff.
Items in CMC Library Consortium holdings can be located using the
CMC Library
Consortium Public Access Catalog
(see
Page
2 for more information). Returning Materials
When returning library materials to the college library during
open hours, be sure that you place
the materials in the slot in the front of the Circulation desk rather than
leaving them on top of the counter, to avoid the
chance that another person would carry off an item still checked out to you,
possibly
causing you to accrue undeserved overdue fines or lost item fees. A book drop
is provided outside the front entrance to allow material to be returned when the
library is closed. Items returned in the book drop are checked in the
following morning and are counted as having been returned during the previous
business day.
Important: Materials borrowed through
Interlibrary Loan service
should be returned
only
to the library which arranged the loan, on or before the date
due.
If overdue materials are not returned before the end of the current semester,
the responsible student may be blocked from registering for the next semester,
from graduating, or from obtaining transcripts required to transfer to another
college or university,
until the student resolves the situation with the library.
The following table lists overdue fines according to type of material. (A
“business day” is defined as any day that the library is open.)
Materials from any CMC library can be borrowed
using the CMC Library Consortium card, which is available at no charge to qualified individuals from any member library.
(See
Page 2 for a list of CMC member libraries,
and see top of page for qualifications for obtaining a card
from the college library.) Materials in
Rutherford County libraries are not transferred from one location to another for
circulation purposes, as they all are positioned within an area easily
accessible to patrons of most of the other CMC libraries.
Polk County Public Library is also a member of the CMC Library Consortium, and its materials may be checked out to anyone
holding a valid CMC library card. Although transfer of items for
circulation between the libraries in Polk County and those in Rutherford County
is not possible at this time, Polk County Public Library materials are available to those with direct
access to that library.
Materials from another CMC library may be returned at Isothermal library;
likewise, Isothermal library materials can be returned at other CMC libraries.
Returning materials at the college library that are owned by Polk County
Public Library is not regularly practiced, however, due to the lack of a courier
between distant libraries and the extended periods between personal contact by
the libraries' staff. The date
of return is automatically recorded at the receiving library. Items returned at a location
other than the lending library will have an In Transit status in the
system until they are
checked in at the lending library. They will continue to appear on your library
record until checked in, but will not accrue fines. (See Patron Review,
Page 2.)
Overdue fines and blocks can be avoided by returning
library materials on time, and by avoiding situations such as checking out library materials for
another person or letting someone borrow and use your library card. If library
materials have been lost or stolen, please notify the library staff right away
to cancel the account.
| Type of Material | Fine per item per business day |
| Book | $.10 |
| Audiotape | $.10 |
| CD | $.10 |
| Circulating Videotape | $1.00 |
| DVD | $1.00 |
| Reserve Material | $1.00 |
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"Anyone willfully involved in the theft, defacement or destruction of college library books, periodicals, newspapers, etc. is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor if the value of the items is less than $50.00; and will be punished as a Class H felon if the value is over $50.00." (--General Statutes of North Carolina, Chapter 14-398.) |
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