BENEFITS

Signing in Crunia , you will be able to

• See your loans and renew them. Access your Reading History.
• Know the loan conditions of each material and its availability.
• Make and view your requests and reservations.
• Access your reading history to check your previous and historical loans
• Save preferred searches and records.
• Access your favourites: saved searches, saved records, and search history.
• Access the full text of suscribed electronic resources acquired by the University Library in the case of being part of the University Community (students, PAS and PDI) .

All materials belonging to the library collections are subject to loan. However, some documents, for use, antiquity or preservation reasons, may only be consulted in the library premises (Item 4 of the Borrowing Policy).

The number of works that can be borrowed and the length of the loan vary depending on the status of the user:

There are also special loans depending on certain dates of the year or the type of material.

The borrowing period for any document can be renewed as long as no other user has requested it.

Renewals can be done online through Crunia, (going to "My loans", after signing in), by phone or in person in any of the university libraries.

The new borrowing period begins when the renewal is effective.

You can reserve titles on loan or available titles. To reserve them, you must be logged in to Crunia, It is neccessary to sign in, to look for document, clic on it, go to "GET IT" and fill out the form, or contact your library staff.

Reservations expire 48 hours after the item has been returned to the library and the user has been notified by email. The number of reservations cannot exceed the number of items a user can have on loan.

There is a delivery service among all the UDC libraries so that users can have access to the whole library collection without leaving their faculty or school. Any user can request this service at its library or at Crunia, as it was explained in Requesting.

The intercentre loan conditions will be the same as those of the home loan.

Once the document arrives at the requesting library, it will be kept on the day of its receipt and the next, and it will be returned to the original library on the third day if the user has not collected it.

The reference collection, holdings to use in the library and the weekend loan documents can´t be requested through intercentre loan.

This service is restricted to the members of the university community. The length of the loan will be 15 days, which may be renewed once for another 15 day period, unless requested by another user. The e-reader shall always be returned in the library where it was borrowed. The borrower is responsible for the e-reader and the devices that are delivered with it (card, cable, usb and case); these must be returned under the same conditions in which they have been delivered. The user shall make a respectful use of the material and  must not modify its settings or change the contents of the card.

At the moment, the only library of the UDC that counts with this service is:

• Faculty of Educational Studies Library

More information about E-readers loan policy.

This service is restricted to members of the university community. The length of the loan will be six hours, although it can be renewed by another six, unless requested by another user. The borrower is responsible for the laptop and will have to return it under the same conditions in which it was delivered. If a malfunction of the equipment is detected, the user must immediately notify the library staff.

At the moment, the following libraries of the UDC count with this service:

• School of Technical Architecture Library
• Oza University Library (Health Sciences, Physiotherapy and Nursing)
• Faculty of Economics and Business Library

For more information, consult the laptops loan policy or ask the Library staff.

Returns

As part of the inter-center loan service, you can return your books in any of the 16 libraries of the UDC. We will take care of sending them to the library to which they belong. According to the loan rules it is mandatory to return the books within the deadline. Keep your loans in order by returning and renewing them within the term. In this way, the good functioning of the service can be guaranteed for the benefit of all.

Considering the facility you have in renew your loans and the geographical flexibility offered by the intercenter loan, which allows for the return of any UDC library, there are no excuses for the lack of punctuality. Repeated breach of the loan and return rules will mean a temporary suspension of the loan service.

From the moment of return, user will be penalized without being able borrow books for as many business days as there are documents with an overdue loan and accumulated days of delay, up to a maximum of 40 days. Penalties are cumulative.

Example: if the user has 4 books and is 5 days late in returning them, they will be penalized with 20 business days (4 weeks, if there are no holidays in between) without being able to borrow documents.

In addition, the deterioration or loss of books will mean its replacement for ones of the same edition. The library directorship to which the document belongs will choose one of similar characteristics if it is sold out. The center secretariat may require students and UDC workers (PDI or PAS), at the time they apply for their degree or when the working relationship with the university ends, to regularize their situation with the library in case of having outstanding loans in order to ensure the return or replacement of documents (article 5.5 of the Loan Rules of the UDC library).

Users will receive claim messages of non-return documents and notification of penalties in they UDC email account. Try to keep your account free of space so that the emails don´t come back to the service.