An Iowa College in the Liberal Arts Tradition
DVDs
- DVDs are a 3-day checkout to students (limited to six checkouts at a time) and a 2-week checkout to faculty/staff. Dependents and community patrons may NOT check them out. However, they may view them in a media room in the library.
- Some DVDs have their original cases out on the public shelves and the disks in clear (or plain black) cases behind the circulation desk. When a patron brings one of these to the desk, swap it out with its partner, and set the original case on its side in the same spot. Check out the case you actually give to the patron, NOT the one they hand you. No need to de-sensitize anything.
- Other DVDs are shelved with the disks in their original cases inside security boxes. When a patron brings one of these to the desk, use the magnetic unlocking device affixed to the top of the laptop cabinet to release the security tab on the box, remove the DVD case, check to make the appropriate disk(s) are inside, then check the box out. No need to de-sensitize anything. Place the empty security box on the top shelf next to the laptop cabinet.
- When a DVD is returned, look inside the case to make sure the appropriate disk(s) are there before checking the case in. If it is a clear (or plain black) case, swap it out with the original case and put the original case on the appropriate shelf in the pre-shelving area. If the DVD is returned in its original case, after checking to make sure the disk is indeed inside and THEN checking it in, grab an empty security box, insert the case inside, and place it on the appropriate shelf in the pre-shelving area.
- If a DVD case is returned WITHOUT the disk and the patron has already left the desk, leave the case on the Circulation Supervisor’s desk with a note. Do NOT check it in if you caught the error in time.