While this isn’t headline-worthy, its certainly blog-worthy.

Starting March 24, students enrolled in Ph.D. or J.S.D. programs will no longer be limited to three renewals of their library materials.  When the Library conducted a user survey last spring, we received several comments indicating that our three renewal policy was not serving dissertation writers well.

The issue came before the Library Student Resource Group (http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/about/studadv/) last quarter, and the students on this group endorsed changing the policy for those writing dissertations.  On January 24, the Board of the University Library approved changing our policy to allow unlimited renewals by students in Ph.D. or J.S.D. programs but reaffirmed the three renewal limit for other students.

In other words, this change only affects students with a Registrar registration status of “3″.

So congrats Ph.D. and J.S.D students.  Got a problem with this or incredibly thankful?  Use the comments.

-Scott