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How to use the library: Terms of use and Service Prices

Charges and fees

Unpaid charges and fees will accrue in the customer's debt balance. The customer will be blocked from borrowing if the level of the charges and fees reaches or exceeds 10€.

You can pay overdue fines at the library or via web payment.

Service price list

Library card

First library card 0 €
Replacement fee for a new card 5 €


Overdue and item available notices

By email 0 €
By mail 1 €


Copies and printouts

Black-and-white copies 0,20 € / copy
Colour copies 0,40 € / copy


Interlibrary loans from other libraries

Books from Finland and the Nordic Countries 7 € (VAT 0%) / loan
Books from outside the Nordic Countries as per invoice
Copies and microfiches as per invoice


Interlibrary loan for other libraries

Books 9 € (VAT 0%) / loan
Copies 9 € (VAT 0%) / article


Information and training services

The library offers training in information retrieval for all students of Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences.  The service includes one hour free consultation. 
Information retrievals according to a contract starting from 40 € / hour (incl. VAT 24%)
Training for groups / personal consultation contractual (prices incl. VAT 24%)


Accessories

Library bags 1 € (incl. VAT 24%) / piece

Overdue charges

Renew or return your loans by the due date and avoid the overdue charges. 

Loans 28 days and thesis
0,10 €/loan/day
There will be no fee if loans are returned or renewed within 6 days from the due date.
Loans 14 days
0,40 €/loan/day

 

The patron will be blocked from borrowing if the level of the charges and fees reaches or exceeds 10€.
The patron block will be withdrawn when all charges and fees are paid.
The compensation price for the lost or damaged item is determined by the price of a new similar item. If a new similar item is not available, compensation price will be determined case by case. It is also possible to replace a similar item for the item which is lost or damaged.

Prices are valid until further notice.

Approved by Library Management Group
Effective April 8th, 2014. Updated June 19th, 2018.

Terms of use

Approved by Library Management Group
Effective Aug 21st, 2015. Updated Jan 14th, 2019.

Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences Library is located in the Campus House in Seinäjoki on university's Frami Campus.

The library has its own library card and SeAMK-Finna web service. In SeAMK-Finna you can search books, e-books, theses, journals, articles and databases from the library collections. You can also make reservations, renew your loans, and save favourites and searches. Log in with your SeAMK username and all library resources are available to you. 

Usage rights
Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences Library is open to everybody. The usage rights apply the right to use library material and services, work stations and public premises according to the rules of the library. There are some restrictions for making reservations for course books on loan. The degree students and staff of Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences are entitled to use e-resources through remote use with their own credentials (SeAMK username and password).

Library card
A new customer must notify his personal data and contact information and verify his identity in order to get a library card. A person aged under 15 must have a consent from the guardian. The library card is personal and it must be always along when one borrows. The first library card is free. 

The library card is valid for a limited period. The length of the validity is determined by the customer group. The customer data will be checked after the validity has ended and the validity will be defined again. 

When signing the library card, the customer commits himself to follow the terms of use. The customer is responsible for borrowed material and material borrowed by his under 15-year-old child on his card. The customer must notify changes to his address, name and guardian information and the loss of the library card.

Borrowing and renewing loans
The loan period of course books is 14 days (2 weeks). The loan period of other material and theses is 28 days (4 weeks). The journals are not lent out.

The loans can be renewed by visiting the library, by telephone, by e-mail or on the library's SeAMK-Finna web service, unless reservations have been made for the loans. It is possible to renew loans up to 50 times per item.

Making reservations
You can make reservations for books that are on loan (=hold) or for the books that are on shelves (=request an available item). There are some restrictions for making reservations for course books on loan (loan period 14 days). All customers can make reservations for other material (loan period 28 days).

You can make reservations for course books if you belong to the one of the following customer groups: student or staff in Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences, student or staff in University Consortium of Seinäjoki (the Universities of Tampere, Helsinki or Vaasa, Sibelius Academy and Etelä-Pohjanmaa Summer University).

The reservations can also be made by telephone, by e-mail or on the library's SeAMK-Finna web service. If you already have a book on loan, you will not be able to make a reservation for that.

Picking-up reservations
You can pick the reservations by using the self-service. As you are making the reservation, you must accept the terms of use so that your reservation can be made available for retrieval from an open pickup shelf. Your library card or student card number is visible on the reservation. If you don't want your reservation to be placed on an open pickup shelf, you must make the reservation at the library's information desk and pick it up during library's service hours.

Returning loans
You can return the loans by using library's check-in machines. If the loans have been returned out of hours, they will be processed on the following working day. Charges of loans returned out of hours will continue to accrue according to the price list of the library until they are processed on the next working day. The customer is responsible for returning the loans to the library book drops.

Overdue loans
The customer has to renew or return his loans by the due date in order to avoid the overdue charges. The first overdue notice will be sent the day after the due date. The second overdue notice will be sent on the 6th day following the due date.

Overdue charges for the course books will accrue daily after the due date, also during the weekends. Other loans can be returned free of charge within six days after the due date. After this, overdue charges will accrue daily after the due date, also during weekends.

The customer is responsible for the returning or renewal of the loans in time. The library will send out due-date email alerts. This does not affect your responsibility to return items or renew them by their due date even if there were problems with the data communications.

Patron block
The customer will be blocked from borrowing if the level of the charges and fees reaches or exceeds the limit in the price list or if the customer has been billed. The customer will be billed for damaged or unreturned material on the 60th day after the due date. The charges can be collected, if necessary, with legal acts. In that case, the collection charges are left for the customer to be paid.

The patron block will be withdrawn by returning the overdue material and by paying the overdue charges, by replacing the lost or damaged material or by settling the outstanding account. The customer can give up his borrowing privileges by returning the library card to the library. All his personal and contact information will be removed from the library system. 

Interlibrary loans
If the material you need is not available at the library, it can be ordered for you from other libraries. You can request an interlibrary loan by visiting the Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences Library or by sending e-mail. You must have a library card with full borrowing privileges to the SeAMK Library to request an interlibrary loan. Go to Interlibrary loans page for further information.

Other libraries can send interlibrary loan requests directly by e-mail. Course books are only lent to students who have the right to make reservations on them.

Charges and fees
The library charges for item available and overdue notices and collect overdue charges defined in the valid library service price list. Unpaid overdue charges and other fees will accrue in the customer's debt balance. The customer will be blocked from borrowing if the level of the charges and fees reaches or exceeds the limit in the price list.

Lost, unreturned or damaged items are charged case by case. Invoicing and collection charges will also be charged. There is a fee defined in the library service price list for replacing a lost or damaged library card.

Fees defined in the library service price list will be charged for received and delivered interlibrary loans. Fees defined in the library service price list will also be charged for information and training services as well as room rentals.

Electronic resources
Electronic material (e-books, e-journals, reference books and databases) is available in the library premises for all patrons. The degree students and staff of Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences are entitled to use e-resources through the university computer network or through remote use. Usage rights for every e-resource are available on library’s web pages.

Privacy protection
The customer register of Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences Library is used only for circulation control. Information about customer’s loans or any other personal data concerning an individual customer will not be turned over to any outsider. This does not apply to debt collection actions. Everyone has a right to check their data on the customer register in accordance with the Personal Data Act (523/99). The library has a right to register the customer's personal identity number (permission No. 56 of the Data Protection Board 29th Nov, 1993).

Responsibilities of the customer and possibilities of influencing
The customer uses library material at his own risk. The library will not be liable if a borrowed item damages customer’s personal device. The library is not liable to pay damages caused by library materials to a third party.

Wishes and remarks concerning library material and service can be made for the staff of each library unit. If necessary, the library director can be contacted.
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