Library Policies

Inter-Library Lending

St Mary’s University College (STMU) Library will process Inter-library loans (ILL) from other insitutions and libraries with the following conditions:

• St Mary’s will only process Interlibrary Loan requests from libraries that are outside of Calgary; and  
• Requests from local libraries will not be fulfilled; patrons from local libraries need to come to St Mary’s and sign out the materials with either their Student Card (Consortium libraries) or a lending card from The Alberta Library (TAL). 

Institutions seeking information on Inter-Library Loan borrowing, please see our STMU Library Policy on Lending to Other Libraries.

Monographs

• Only items falling into the definite loan period category will be lent out for interlibrary loan. Items sent for interlibrary loan must have a loan period of at least two weeks.
  
• Only monographs will be loaned
  
• VHS tapes, DVDs, periodicals and other forms of media or publication
  formats (other than monographs) will not be loaned out.
  
• The loan period will be three weeks from date of mailing.
  
• No renewals are possible.
  
• Items returned from the borrowing library late (past the 3 week time),
  may be assessed a fine.

Serials

• Journal Articles can be requested for document delivery (photocopied)
  only. Physical print journals cannot be lent.

Not Available for ILL Lending

The following materials are not available for inter-library lending

• Videos/DVDS
• General Reserve, Closed Reserve
• Reference Books