Materials useful to OSAC will be retained, and the rest will be sold or given away. Funds from sales will be returned to OSAC accounts. V. Specimen Loan Policy 1. All loan transactions will be documented in the OSAC loan database. Outgoing loans will be made to researchers in good standing with the collection community.
All loans are subject to the director's written approval.
Loans will be for a period of 3 years, and will be renewable by written request to the director. Loans requested by students will be made via their major professors, who will be held responsible for the safe return of the material. Borrowers may retain representative duplicates of OSAC material if they offset the cost to OSAC by determining the remainder of the borrowed material, or by providing other material in exchange. Specific agreements should be made with the director at the time the loan is requested. OSU researchers requesting entomological loans from other institutions should register their request with the OSAC database, so specimens may be tracked.