Distance Learning Services Policies
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Who has access to these services?
- Current faculty, staff, and students from non-Illinois extension sites
- Current Deerfield campus students who live beyond a 60 mile radius of Deerfield, but reside in the continental United states or Canada. This typically applies to DMin students and students working on their thesis or dissertation.
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What are the access limitations?
- Students, faculty, and staff from the South Chicago Regional Center may not use the Distance Learning Services since they are within 60 miles of Deerfield. They are free to use the Rolfing library and its Interlibrary loan services.
- Both the South Florida Regional Center and the Trinity Law School are not granted access to the distance learning services because they each have their own campuses and libraries.
Books will not be shipped internationally.
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Setting up Distance Student Services
- Students need to have access to their Trinity GroupWise or TriNet email account to receive articles.
- Try logging into TrinCat to see if your account is active. If you are a distance learning student without a TrinCat account, please fill out the Patron Registration for Distance Services.
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Guidelines for requesting
- Books
- Rolfing Library books are mailed to patrons for the cost of postage via United States Postal Service, both directions.
- There is a maximum request of 10 books per week.
- The loan period is determined by your patron group status. Please see the circulation policies for details.
- Articles
- Only journal or magazine article from the print collection will be sent.
- Articles are sent to the patron's Trinity GroupWise or TriNet email account.
- There is a $1.00 fee per article.
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International requests
- Journal articles can be sent to the patron's Trinity GroupWise or TriNet email account.
- Articles must be opened using Adobe Acrobat. Please load this software onto your computer if it is not already loaded.
- Books cannot be shipped overseas.
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Fees
- Fees are posted to your library patron account.
- When fees accrued are over $2.00, they are added to your student account.
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Lost Books
- You are responsible for the cost of books that you requested that are lost in the mail.
- Please purchase insurance for the package.
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