NCKU faculty members, staffs, student and users holding a library card.

• Users can return materials to the circulation desk at the library or branches during opening hours depending on where they borrowed the material. During non-opening hours, please place the materials borrowed from the main library in the “Book Return Box” located along the west wall of the library. For materials borrowed from the medical library, please place it in the “Book Return Box” at the medical library.
• During winter and summer breaks, the library offers “Book Return by Mail” services for the convenience of readers returning to their hometowns. The return date by the user will be based on the postmark.
  For materials borrowed from the Main Library, please send to: Circulation Services Division, No. 1, University Road, National Cheng Kung University Library, 701 East District, Tainan City. (Note: Returning).
  For materials borrowed from the Medical Library, please send to: Circulation Services Division, No. 138, Sheng-Li Road, National Cheng Kung University Medical Library, 704 North District, Tainan City (Note: Returning).
• Books borrowed from the Main Library can be returned at the Medical Branch, and vice versa. This service is exclusively for book returns. For other transactions, including borrowing, on-site return and renewal, or claims for lost or damaged items, patrons are kindly requested to visit the original lending library.

• Users are responsible for returning borrowed library materials on time. Users can check the due date through My Loans on the Discovery System and ensure timely returns. Alternatively, users can immediately renew the materials to avoid overdue returns.
• Users will be charged an overdue processing fee for overdue returns:
  • General library materials, map collection room materials: NTD 5/volume/day.
  • Audiovisual materials, NTD30/volume/day.
  • Course reserve items: NTD5/volume/day.
  • Maximum overdue processing fee is NTD1000/volume.
• The library system automatically sends email notifications for borrowing and returning materials as a reminder service, users cannot use “yet to receive email notifications” as a means to reduce the overdue processing fee.
• Users will be subjected to compensation according to “National Cheng Kung University Library Rules for Reader Violations” for the loss or damaged of borrowed library materials.
• After returning library materials, please ensure that the records under My Loans in the library website are updated and correct. In case of any discrepancies, please contact the circulation desk immediately for tracking the issue.
• Users borrowing books from various libraries within NCKU are required to return the borrowed books to the respective library. In the event of mistakenly returning books to a different library resulting in overdue materials, the user will bear responsibility.

• National Cheng Kung University Library Rules for Loan Services of Books and Materials
• National Cheng Kung University Library Rules for Reader Violations