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  • Standard Overdue Fines: None
  • Recalled Materials: $3.00 per day, maximum of $45 per item
  • Reserve Materials (items in RES locations) and Non-Reserve 3-hour Short-term loans (item policy 11): $3.00 per hour, maximum of $45 per item (with 1 hour grace period) for overdue items
  • Replacement Fee for Lost Materials (automatically applied after 45 days overdue): Standard fee is $100 replacement cost per item
  • Claimed returned items: no fines/fees. These items currently remain indefinitely at Claimed Returned status (never go to Lost).

Student Fines & Fees sent to Termbill:

  • Overdue items flip to lost after 45 days and students receive bill via Alma
  • Exports to Termbill: Minimum fine/fee age for export is 7 days; minimum threshold for export is $10.
    • i.e. If the fine/fee is less than $10, or the total fines/fees on the user's account is less than $10, the fine/fee will not meet the threshold for export.
  • Fine/Fee type exported: Lost item replacement fee, overdue fine, recalled overdue fine
  • Job to export runs in Alma on Sunday evenings and is delivered to Termbill on Monday morning.
  • When fines/fees export from Alma, they no longer appear as "active" in Alma, but appear as "closed" in Student's Fines/Fees tab

Non-student Fines & Fees sent to AR (Includes Resource Sharing Partners)

  • Overdue items flip to lost after 45 days and non-students receive bill via Alma
  • Exports to Accounts Receivable (AR): Minimum fine/fee age for for export is 30 days; minimum threshold for export is $20
    • i.e. If the fine/fee is less than $20, or the total fines/fees on the user's account is less than $20, the fine/fee will not meet the threshold for export.
  • Fine/Fee type exported: Lost item replacement fee, overdue fine, recalled overdue fine, Resource sharing receive fee (used to bill Resource Sharing partners)
  • Job to export runs in Alma on Sunday evenings and is delivered to AR on Monday morning.
  • When fines/fees export from Alma, they no longer appear as "active" in Alma, but appear as "closed" in non-Student's Fines/Fees tab

Patron Credits

Student Credits (sent to Termbill):

  • No minimum age or threshold for export
  • Job to export runs in Alma on Sunday evenings and is delivered to Termbill on Monday morning. 
  • When credits export from Alma, they no longer appear as "active" in Alma, but appear as "closed" in Fines/Fees tab of Student's account

Non-student Credits (sent to AR):

  • No minimum age or threshold for export
  • Job to export credits runs in Alma on Sunday evenings and is delivered via LTS script to library_billing@harvard.edu on Monday morning.
  • Library Privileges must manually apply any credits from this export in AR/Oracle. 
  • When credits export from Alma, they no longer appear as "active" in Alma, but appear as "closed" in Fines/Fees tab of non-Student's account

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