Distance Loans via Pohjanportti

Co-Operating Libraries

Oulu City Library – Regional Central Library and the Regional Library of Lapland.

Borrowing Rights

All library customers with borrowing rights in one of the co-operating libraries are entitled to submit distance loan requests. However, if you have a borrowing bar due to outstanding fees or any other reasons, you cannot request distance loans. Furthermore, new distance loans will be unabled, if previous distance loans are overdue.

Borrowable Items

You can borrow books, maps, sheet music, magazines and newspapers, c-cassettes, CDs, LP records, slides, working drawings, and multimedia, but you can submit distance loan requests only for items on the shelf in the library. In other words, no distance loan request can be placed on items already on loan. Distance loans can not be renewed on the Internet.

Loan Period and Fees

The loan period for a distance loan is 4 weeks and the distance loan fee is 2 euros per loan. The distance loan fee will be entered to your account in your home library and charged only on the items sent to you.

Delivery of the Items

You can check your account for the progress of your request: when the request has been placed and when the item is in transit. The requested material is sent to you by post to the residence address given in your account. Please, note: address information must be up-to-date. You can return the item(s) to your local library or post it back to the owning library.

Responsibility and Liability

You are responsible for the borrowed items also when they are being transferred to you.

Customer Information

Your customer information required for borrowing items (name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, borrower ID and social security number) will be transferred from your local library register to the owning library register for statistics. Your information will be deleted in the end of the statistic period. You are entitled to see your registered information on request.

Agreement

You need to accept user regulations and fees for distance loans. You also need to agree to the fact that your customer information required for the borrowing process will be transferred from the customer register of your local library to the customer register of the owning library.

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