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Are you eligible to receive this service?
You must be a student, staff, or faculty member who lives outside of the Sudbury GOVA public transit service area.
Check the catalogue to make sure the desired material is not available online.
When searching for articles on a specific topic, please consult the Research Guide for your program.
Registering for home delivery
Please register for RACER by completing the online registration form. For the "Choose your location" field select "Home Delivery - for Distance Education students only".
What can I borrow?
Any library material that is not available to you electronically, can be ordered by placing a request for the item in Omni.
Note:
- If the library owns a current or an older edition of a required textbook, it is available for borrowing. If a required textbook is not available, the Library will NOT order it from elsewhere.
- Laurentian is unable to supply any loaned materials from other libraries to students residing outside North America.
Delivery
Articles in electronic form be delivered to your Laurentian email address, or the email address you specified when you submitted the request.
Other library material will be shipped to the address you registered with for a RACER account. If you move, please update your RACER account details.
A postage paid shipping label will be provided in your package, taped to the front of the book. When finished with your library material, return the books to the J.N. Desmarais Library taping the postage paid shipping label onto the original envelope sent to you.
Loan periods
From Laurentian and other Omni university collections
When borrowing books from Laurentian or other Omni university collections, undergraduate and graduate students are allowed 120 days with renewals. You are responsible for renewing your own books.
All books are subject to recall.
From Elsewhere
When borrowing materials outside of Laurentian and other Omni university collections, the loan period varies from between 3 and 6 weeks. These books are NOT renewable. Borrowers will be charged $2.00 per day for any material which is overdue.
Fines
If you have been blocked from borrowing items from the Laurentian University library, you will also be blocked from requesting items from other libraries.
You may pay 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
You can make credit card payments by telephone. Please call Access Services at 1-800-661-1058, extension 4 or 705-675-4800 to pay with VISA or Mastercard.