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As the result of a privacy policy developed by the Council of UW Libraries, beginning January 2025 the UWM Libraries will anonymize loan circulation data six months after an item’s return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This process will de-identify the individual associated with the loan transaction. After anonymization, the Libraries will retain a record of the loan for internal collection analysis purposes, but will not know who borrowed the item.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of the change, the Libraries will no longer be able to support user access to historic loan information through Search@UW, our main search tool. However, users will have the opportunity to opt in to a separate application that will save their loan history by logging in at https:\/\/loanhistory.library.wisconsin.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To retain their current loan history, users must<\/strong> opt into the new loan history app by January 5, 2025. After that date, users will be unable to retrieve their loan history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More information about the UWM Libraries loan history application can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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