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Introduction
A valid student photo identification card must be presented before books can be borrowed.
Books
Undergraduates may borrow up to 30 circulating books for 3 weeks.
Graduate students may borrow up to 50 books for 4 months, subject to recall after 3 weeks.
All books may be renewed up to 3 times unless requested by another borrower. If a book is required for reserve, it must be returned within 3 days.
Reserve Material
Your professor may request that the library place material on 1, 2 or 4 hour, 1, 3 or 7 day reserve. The Reserves list enables you to search for reserve material.
Email Notification
For items with a loan period of more than four days, a reminder notice will be sent to the email address associated with your library system account before the item is overdue. Two overdue notices will be sent to the same email address after the item is overdue.
After an item is more than 30 days overdue, you will be sent another notice, and a $5 fine will be applied to your account.
Fees / Fines
Overdue book - $.50/day to $15 maximum
Overdue reserve item due at a specific hour - $.50/hour to $30 maximum
Overdue reserve item due specific day - $2/day to $30 maximum
Lost book - $5 service charge plus fines owing plus replacement cost for in-print titles; $30 for out-of-print titles.
If you have incurred any library fines, you may pay in person at the Access Services desk on the 2nd floor of the JN Desmarais Library (cash or debit) or by cheque, money order, or credit card.
Cheques and money orders can be made out to Laurentian University and sent to:
Attention: Access Services
J.N. Desmarais Library
935 Ramsey Lake Road
Sudbury ON P3E 2C6
Credit card payments can be made by telephone. Please call the Borrower Services at 1-800-661-1058, extension 4 or 705-675-4800 to pay with VISA or Mastercard.
Special Processing and Searches
All items on order are indicated in the online catalogue. If there is a particular title that has been received but is not yet available for circulation, please fill out a CAN'T FIND A BOOK? form available on the pods containing library chromebooks. Under normal circumstances, you will have the book in your hands within 48 hours. You may also use this slip to request that the library search for a book missing from the shelf.
For further information about Access Services, contact Access Services.
Your LU Library Account
Login to your library account through the catalogue to renew your books, to see which books you have out, to place holds, and to verify whether you have fines owing.
Your username and password are the same as your LaurentianID account.