Renew or return your loans by the due date and avoid the overdue charges.
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Approved by Library Management Group
Effective August 21st, 2015. Updated October 18th, 2022.
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.
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. 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).
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.
The loan period of course books is 14 days (2 weeks). The loan period of other material is 28 days (4 weeks). The loan period of sport equipment is 7 days (1 week). The journals are not lent out.
Students of SeAMK who are Celia customers can request an extended loan period of four weeks for course books instead of the normal two weeks. An extension can be obtained by contacting the SeAMK Library's Celia contact person.
The loans can be renewed on the library's SeAMK-Finna web service or on the Tuudo app, by visiting the library, by telephone or by e-mail unless reservations have been made for the loans. It is possible to renew loans max. 2 years if there are no holds placed (SeAMK staff 4 years). Sport equipment cannot be renewed.
You can make reservations for books that are on loan or for the books that are on shelves.
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. Sport equipment cannot be reserved.
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.
You can return the loans by using library's check-in machines. The returns are then registered immediately. You can also return loans to book drop box by the C0 entrance. 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 drop or by post. Return sports equipment to the library information desk.
The customer has to renew or return his loans by the due date in order to avoid the overdue charges. You will get a email allert 2-4 days before due date and a second allert the same day the books are due. The first overdue notice will be sent two days after the due date. Then you will get three other overdue notices, which are sent one, two and four weeks after the due date.
Overdue charges for the course books will accrue daily after the due date. 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..
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 in the electronic material list.
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 customer, material, and event register of the library system
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.
Approved by Library Management Group
Effective Aug 21st, 2015. Updated Oct 18th, 2022.
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.