Active loans for physical materials that are still in the possession of library patrons are not affected by this policy. Any materials that have been checked out and not yet returned will still show up in your library account and will appear in your loan history once they are returned to the library.
Opting in to retention of your entire history means that Murphy Library will maintain a record of what you have borrowed. This increases the risk of exposure of this data to a security breach. Murphy Library takes our cybersecurity role very seriously in order to limit that risk, but improper and illegal access is always a risk no matter how securely a system is protected.
Your loan history is protected under Wisconsin state statute §§ 43.30 and Murphy Library is not permitted to share your information with anyone besides you or your legal guardian. However, under rare circumstances, a library may be compelled by court order to release your circulation data to law enforcement as part of a criminal investigation.
We do not share personal circulation history, although this service will allow you to see your own loan history.
Wisconsin state statute §§ 43.30 protects this information such that we would not disclose this information to anyone else except through a court order.
Yes, you can opt in and out as often as you like. But if you do not opt in before January 2025, you will lose any borrowing history older than 6 months.
If you opt in later, you will start building your saved borrowing history from that point.
If you opt in to have us retain your full history, it will contain the items' title, author, loan date, and other publication information.
The loan history will not have a record of any digitization requests – only physical material loans.
While Murphy Library may use anonymized circulation data when making collections decisions, we do not utilize the individual personal circulation data in any way unless requested by the patron or if needed to resolve a specific internal circulation question.
Patrons are strongly encouraged to download a copy of their loan history before their relationship with the university ends.
When a patron loses their NetID access, they will no longer be able to access their loan history. Furthermore, after a patron leaves UWL, their record is purged from library systems and their loan history will be purged and not recoverable.