The following loan periods are in place:

A borrower can renew the loan of general collection books or back issues of magazines, provided that no holds have been placed on these items. The lending library, however, reserves the right to restrict the number of renewals that will be permitted.

Holds can be placed on items that are checked out by other borrowers. Once a held item is returned, the person who placed the hold has three days to pick it up.

Through our online catalogue, the SirsiDynix e-Library , searchers can discover what is available at any and all campus libraries.  Requests for intercampus loans can be made at your campus library circulation desk.  You can also email or telephone your campus library.

Requests to borrow items from libraries outside the College system can be made at your campus library circulation desk. You can also telephone or email your campus library.

According to College policy, there is no charge to students for ILLs intended to support CNA courses. As there may be charges to your campus library, sometimes considerable, to obtain ILLs, however, we reserve the right to restrict your access to this service. The interlibrary loan service should generally not be used to obtain required textbooks; and any costs associated with obtaining required texts through ILL will usually need to be paid by the borrower in advance.

As with our SirsiDynix e-Library , the catalogues of many other libraries and library systems can be searched over the World Wide Web.  Some catalogues of note are:

• Memorial University Libraries Catalogue
• Newfoundland and Labrador Public Libraries Catalogue
• Aurora: Library Catalogue of Library and Archives Canada

Please note the following:

• Memorial University students or faculty who want to borrow items from the MUN libraries should do that directly through the DistancePlus service .

Anyone wishing to use Circulation Services will be asked to provide his/her name, address, and other contact information. All user information is considered confidential.

To determine the opening hours or contact information of a particular campus library learning commons, please click a campus name in the top menu of this page.

To help you find what you’re looking for, please login to our Explore Our Online Resources page (see links above). Once logged in, you can discover what books, videos, journals, and other periodicals are available from our campus libraries, retrieve articles and other resources from our article databases, consult websites that may help you in your research, and get useful research tips on how to get started, how to evaluate sources, and how to choose what information is best for you.
 
Library Services staff are happy to offer one-on-one help in person, by phone or email. Don’t be shy about asking for help!

Circulation Services are defined in CNA Library Services – Circulation: Procedure: SS-209-PR as:

Those services involved with: circulating materials held by a CNA library learning commons; placing holds on items that are checked out; and borrowing or lending items through intercampus or interlibrary loan.

If you wish to borrow circulating materials held by a campus library learning commons, you can visit that library learning commons and borrow the items directly. If it is not practical for you to visit in-person the campus library learning commons holding the materials you need, we will mail the desired materials directly to you. Items held by a library learning commons that are on Reserve are usually not available for mail out. If an item in a collection is only available for use in the library learning commons, such as a reference book, we will, according to what permissible under copyright law, photocopy or make a scanned copy of a specific article from that reference work and either mail or email that article to you.
 
You can find out what materials are available for delivery by searching the library catalogue. Click on details to get the full record. To request a specific item, copy and paste the information you find in the catalogue into an email message addressed to the owning library learning commons (see email addresses under the campus names in the top menu of this page). You can also telephone the particular library learning commons or email Ask-A-Librarian for assistance.
 
Books for mail out will be signed out to you for two weeks, with an additional two weeks provided for shipping time. Renewals are usually possible. The books will be mailed to you at no charge and we will include a postage paid label for you to return them to us. If you do not receive the package in a week, please let us know.
 
If you wish to borrow an item that is not available through one of our library learning commons, we may be able to get that item for you on interlibrary loan. Just email your library learning commons with information about the item that you are looking for and we will see if we can obtain that item for you. Procedures for obtaining interlibrary loans are explained in Procedure: SS-209-PR.
 
We do not charge fines for overdue materials. Borrowers who fail to return items to us, however, will be billed by the College for replacement costs and will have their borrowing privileges suspended until the bill is paid or the items are returned or replaced. Borrowers who have outstanding bills for non-returned library learning commons materials will be denied transcripts, certificates, and diplomas and will not be permitted to register for courses at any campus of College of the North Atlantic until restitution is made.
 
To return the materials, put them back in the same envelope in which you received them, seal the envelope securely, and attach to the envelope the postage paid shipping label provided. Take the envelope to a local post office or drop it in a Canada Post mail box.