1. Eligibility for borrowing:
   Readers who are the target audience for the respective centre and have completed relevant user registration procedures.


2. Borrowing rules:
   2.1 Reading rooms in the Parenting Education Centre, the Centre of Psycho-pedagogical Support and Special Education, the Centre of Languages, the Centre of Moral Education, the Centre of Experimentation for the Youth, the Activities Centre of ‘Porto Exterior’ and the Activities Centre of ‘Bairro do Hipódromo’ offer lending services to eligible readers. Borrowable items include books, teaching kits, non-current magazines and multimedia audio-visual materials (limited to one non-current magazine and two items of multimedia audio-visual materials). The total number of items on loan cannot exceed five.
   2.2 The Centre of Educational Resources offers leading services to teachers and staff of institutions serving persons with special needs. The total number of books, teaching kits, non-current magazines, physical instructional models, wallcharts and multimedia audio-visual materials on loan cannot exceed five. Meanwhile, an addition of 20 projector transparencies, 40 photographic slides and 20 coloured pages may be borrowed.
   2.3 Readers are required to visit a reading room in person and present their valid identity document or electronic reader identification on Macao One Account in order to complete the borrowing procedures.
   2.4 Readers may borrow materials from the aforesaid reading rooms for a period of two weeks.


3. Renewal rules:
   3.1 Readers need to request a renewal at least one working day before the due date;
   3.2 Each loan item may be renewed once for a period of two weeks, provided that it has not been reserved by another reader;
   3.3 Readers may request a renewal in person at a reading room, by phone or online;
   3.4 A borrowed item cannot be renewed if it has been reserved by another reader.


4. Handling of returns of overdue items:
   4.1 All reading materials must be returned to the reading room on time. Should an item be returned a day late, borrowing privileges will be suspended for one day, and so forth;
   4.2 At 120 days overdue, the reader’s registration will be cancelled by the reading room staff and he/she will not be able to borrow materials from any reading room in centres under the purview of the DSEDJ. The reader may apply for re-registration 120 days after returning all overdue items, and borrowing privileges will be restored only after the re-registration process is completed.


5. Reservation rules:
   5.1 Readers cannot reserve materials currently available in a reading room. They can only reserve those which have been ‘loaned’ or ‘reserved’;
   5.2 Readers must visit the DSEDJ’s ‘Online Public Access Catalogue of Reading Rooms’ website or come to a reading room in person to make a reservation. Reservations by phone or other means are not accepted;
   5.3 Each reader can reserve up to five items of reading materials;
   5.4 When a reserved item is returned to the owning reading room, the reservation holder will be notified by phone;
   5.5 Reservation holders need to complete the borrowing procedures within three days of receiving the notification. Should such time period include a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday of the Government of the Macao Special Administrative Region, it will be extended accordingly;
   5.6 Failure to complete the borrowing procedures within the prescribed time limit will render the reservation invalid;
   5.7 If there are any changes to registered particulars, reservation holders should make amendments immediately to ensure contact by the reading room staff.


6. Handling of lost or damaged items:
   6.1. In cases where a loan item is confirmed to be lost or irreparable, the reader is required to submit a written declaration to the DSEDJ and pay compensation based on the original price of such item.
   6.2. Should a reader recover the lost item within one month of completing the compensation procedures, he/she must return it to the owning reading room in person. He/She may then apply for the cancellation of his/her declaration and the refund of the compensation paid. Applications submitted beyond the time limit will not be processed.


7. Inter-facility return policy:
   Borrowers may return loan items to any of the aforementioned reading rooms. (Please check the target audience for each reading room)

Website of the Education and Youth Development Bureau：www.dsedj.gov.mo

Centre of Educational Resources：Avenida da Praia Grande, n.º 926；8395 9200
Parenting Education Centre：Rua de Bragança, Nova Taipa Garden, Lote 24-26, R/C, Taipa；2884 1284
Centre of Psycho-pedagogical Support and Special Education and Centre of Languages：Rua Formosa, n.º 31, 1.º andar；2851 3707
Centre of Moral Education：Rua da Tribuna, n.º 313, Edf. Jade Plaza, 3.º andar；2840 3200
Centre of Experimentation for the Youth：Rua Filipe O’Costa (Pavilhão Polidesportivo Tap Seac)；2833 2084
Activities Centre of ‘Porto Exterior’：Avenida Marciano Baptista, Fórum de Macau, Bloco II, 1.º andar, ZAPE；2870 1385
Activities Centre of ‘Bairro do Hipódromo’：Praceta da Serenidade junto à Avenida Leste do Hipódromo；2842 5110