Lending Terms & Conditions

General terms for lending

Only registered patrons are allowed to borrow library material. Lending cannot be made by patrons who had their membership suspended. Patron membership may get suspended due to a number of reasons such as unpaid fines, over-limit lending, unreturned materials as the due date stated, disciplinary action taken to patrons or suspension from the university.

Open shelve collections
All patrons may lend materials from the open shelves collections depending on their category of membership. Patrons may renew their loaned materials 2 times in a row depending on the noted terms and conditions.

Red Spot collections
All patrons may lend this material for 1 day only.  All Red Spot collections must be returned on the next corresponding day.

SPP Service
This service is provided only to academicians and post-degree students. Other staff or patrons are required to request approval from their own department head or unit supervisor. They also need to have approval for the payment of photocopies, posts, telephone bills, facsimiles, internet access and other getting.

Loan Eligibility

CategoriesOpen Shelve CollectionReference, Media, Malaysia Education CollectionRed Spot Collection
Undergraduate/Diploma Student15 items / 14 days2 items / 7 days1 item per day
Post Graduate Student20 items / 30 days2 items / 7 days1 item per day
Academic Staff30 items / 90 days2 items / 7 days2 item per day
Non-Academic Staff10 items / 14 days2 items / 7 days1 item per day
Part-time Academic Staff15 items / 14 days
Part-time Non-Academic Staff6 items / 14 days

Overdue Fines
The amount of overdue fines is stated below :

Open Shelve Collection

First WeekRM0.10 per day
Second and subsequent weeksRM0.20 per day (without maximum limit)

Red Spot Collection

Per DayRM0.50 per day
First WeekRM15.00 per day
Second WeekRM20.00 per day
Third WeekRM25.00 per day
More than 4 weekRM30.00 per day

Reference, Media, Malaysia Education Collection
RM1.00 per day

Fines compounded to lost or damaged materials
The patron will be required to pay the price of the lost or damaged material. The payment amount is based on the highest amount between the current price for the material and the price that the library pays for it during acquisitions. In addition to that, he/she will have to pay the reprocessing fee of RM25.00 per item.

Fine compounded to lost or damaged materials which had no price attached to it.

Local books/materials
Pay approximately a maximum of RM50.00 and a reprocessing fee of RM25.00 per item.

Imported books/materials
Pay approximately a maximum of RM150.00 and a reprocessing fee of RM25.00 per item.