Services

Return & Overdue Policy

Notices and Fines

	Students, Faculty & Staff	Guest Users & Partner Library Users
Notices	Courtesy and overdue notices are sent to your Whitworth email. Account will be blocked for excessive overdue items.	All notices are mailed to home address or emailed.
Fines	Course Reserve materials: $1 per hour per item for 1, 2, 3, and 4-hour reserves and $3 per day per item for 1, 2, 3, and 7-day reserves	$0.25 per day per item

Lost or Damaged Materials

For students:

Final notice sent to physical address 25 days after final due date declaring the item lost.
A minimum of $75 replacement fee and a process fee of $15 is charged to your account. The replacement fee only is waived with the return of the overdue item.
Failure to return materials results in the blocking of your borrowing privileges and a billing to your student account.

For faculty & staff:

Lost items will accrue a minimum replacement cost of $75.
At 60 days overdue, the patron’s dean or department head will be notified and borrowing privileges suspended until resolved.

For guest users & partner library users:

Failure to pay fines or return books may result in the permanent revoking and blocking of borrowing privileges.