Borrowing and Returns

Activate Borrowing Services

As a new user, you need to activate the borrowing service by logging in on the library's English homepage--“Library Privilege Opening. The system uses the INFO system for identification. For freshmen, identity activation on the Electronic ID Service System of Tsinghua University (id.tsinghua.edu.cn) is required before the first login.

As soon as your application is submitted, the borrowing service will be activated, and you can borrow books from the library immediately. For more information, please click on “Borrowing” button on the homepage.

Borrowing Privileges

With a valid Student IC card, you can access and borrow books according to the borrowing privilege listed below:

Loan Quotas

Loan periods for general books

Returning Books

1)  You can return books to the library where you borrowed them.

2)  Books from Main Library and the six subject libraries may be returned at any library. (During special period ，the circulation policy may vary, please check the library homepage for the latest updates.)

3)  During the library's closed hours, you can return books using the self-service return machines available 24 hours a day at the east side of North Library or Humanities & Social Sciences Library.

Manage Your Account

After logging in on the library's English homepage, select "My Library" to check your circulation record (including items checked out, items on hold, unpaid fines, and reading history) and update your account information. 

Online reservation

All books from the Main Library (including the Old Library) and the six subject libraries, namely the Humanities & Social Sciences Library, Law Library, Arts Library, Finance Library, Architecture Library, and Economics & Management Library, may be reserved via the "Shuimu Search" system. (Note: English-language textbooks and reference materials designated by faculty members in the Economics and Management Library are excluded.) You will be notified by email or WeChat once the requested book is available. The requested book will be kept at loan desk or reservation cabinet for only 3 days.

Renewals

You may renew books online ,and the new due date will be 8 weeks after the renewal date. You may renew books multiple times; however, the maximum loan period for general books (8-week loan) is 32 weeks (224 days).

Requests and Recalls

Books with a loan period of more than 28 days that are requested by other readers are subject to recall. Once recalled, the book's due date will be changed. A recall notice will be sent to readers via e-mail or WeChat message (subscribe to the "THU Information Services" WeChat public account). The new due date will also be displayed in the reader's circulation record. Readers should return the recalled books on or before the new due date.

Overdue Fines

Readers who fail to return books by the due date will be charged as follows: