FINDING LIBRARY MATERIALS:

Find materials (including books, journals, audio-visual materials, etc.) by using the Libraries’ Online Catalogue.

Find articles in journals and newspapers using a Journal Index or Database. Complete lists of indexes and databases are on the Find Articles page.

Most indexes and databases are available off-campus to authorized Mount Allison users.

BORROWING MATERIALS (Circulating Items):

Your Mount Allison University ID card (or your ASIN card for non-Mount Allison faculty) is also your Library Card.

The normal loan period for most materials is thirty days. Extended loans are available upon request. Loan periods are shorter for audio-visual materials, maps and certain other materials. When you borrow items, note when they are due as they do not always carry a date due slip.

Faculty may borrow up to 50 books at any one time, but fewer of non-book materials. All materials are subject to recall.

RENEWING MATERIALS:

Renew your books up to three times in person at the Access Services Department or by phone by calling 364-2568 (R. P. Bell Library) or 364-2561 (Music Library).

To renew books online, access the Library Catalogue and click on “My Account”. Enter your Library Card Number (the 13 digit barcode number on your Mount Allison ID card) and your PIN (ask for a PIN at the Access Services Department). After completing the renewal process, verify that all of the due-dates have been correctly changed. Please note that you will not be able to renew items if you have exceeded your fine limit or if you have exceeded the number of allowable renewals. Items that have been requested or recalled by another patron are also non-renewable.

For more information, contact Access Services staff at 364-2568 or circ-atmta.ca, or the Music Library at 364-2561 or musiclibrary-at-mta.ca.

REQUESTING A BOOK THAT’S OUT:

There are two ways to request an item that someone else has borrowed:

In both cases, you will be notified by e-mail when the item becomes available.

You can place a HOLD on an item yourself in the Library Catalogue; a RECALL can only be placed by Access Services staff. Please note that RECALLS have priority over HOLDS.

For more details, please ask Access Services Department staff at either Library.

NON-CIRCULATING MATERIALS:

Non-circulating materials are for in-library use only. These include reference books, journals, magazines, newspapers, certain government publications, Rare Books, and the Bell Collection of Acadiana.

Please note that because of the fragile condition of the materials, copies of all material from the Bell Collection and the Rare Book Room must be made by Access Services staff. Photocopying of these materials is permitted within the Canadian copyright guidelines.

OLD OR UNUSUAL LIBRARY MATERIALS:

Some library materials, such as rare books and special collections, are kept in the Bell Room and the Davidson Room. To access material from these locations, ask an Access Services Department staff member.

INTERLIBRARY LOAN:

The Mount Allison University Libraries will endeavour to obtain from another library any research materials that the Libraries do not own or to which we do not have electronic access.

The purpose of the Interlibrary Loan service is to support scholarly work within the teaching and research priorities of the University by enhancing the Libraries’ collections through provision of materials held in other libraries.

Please note that Interlibrary Loans service is dependent on the generosity of other libraries. As a result, this policy attempts to take into account the varying practices and policies of lending institutions.

The University fully absorbs the cost of faculty (including retired faculty) Interlibrary Loans.

For more details or to submit a request, see the Interlibrary Loans page.

LEARNING ABOUT THE LIBRARY:

Information sessions are held for new faculty at the beginning of term.

You may also ask for help using the Library at any time. No question is too small (or big).

Research Librarians are available to assist you at the Research Help Desk on the main floor of the R. P. Bell Library or at the Music Library. You can also reach a librarian by phone or by e-mail:

Research Help Desk hours are posted on our Hours page. You may also contact the librarian responsible for your subject area to make an appointment.

Research Skills workshops are offered to students in September. Please encourage your students to attend!

To schedule a library session for your class(es), please contact the librarian responsible for your subject area.

FINES:

Please remember to return or renew your library materials before they are due. Faculty are exempt from normal overdue fines, but are not exempt from fines as indicated below.

Course Reserve Material:

Replacement Cost for lost or damaged material:

PHOTOCOPYING and PRINTING:

Photocopier/Printers are located on the main floor and ground floor of the R. P. Bell Library. At the Music Library, a photocopier is located near the entrance.

Digital and paper copies of microfilm and microfiche can be made using the micro reader/scanners in the Microform Room of the R.P. Bell Library.

User accounts and print credits are used for all printing and photocopying.

Faculty members may add print credits to their Mt.A ID cards using the self-serve machine located by the elevator on the main floor. The printing and photocopying cost is $0.12 per page (tax included).

Copying Service: Access Services staff will photocopy materials for you as time permits (additional fees will apply).

Fragile Materials: To prevent damage, please ask Access Services staff to photocopy all material from the Bell Collection of Acadiana or Rare Book (Davidson) Room. Regular photocopying rates apply.

Course Reserves and Posting Links to Online Resources

Placing physical items (books, articles, films, etc.) on Reserve:

In order to ensure that all students in your class have access to certain materials, whether library resources or your own personal resources, you can have these materials placed on Reserve at the library for reduced loan periods ranging from 30 minutes to 7 days by filling out the online Course Reserve Request Form or the Course Reserve Request Form for Multiple Items.

Materials placed on Reserve are searchable in the library’s online catalogue either by course and instructor name under the “Course Reserves” tab, or by title in the regular search screen.

Please allow at least 3 working days for processing.

For assistance contact circ@mta.ca

Photocopying restrictions: See Copyright Information and the University’s Policy on Fair Dealing for details.

Making links to open access or licensed online resources available:

In order to ensure that all students in your class have access to certain online articles and e-books please contact circ@mta.ca to have a list of links to such resources made available through the “course reserves” tab in the library catalogue.

As with print resources, if you request that such a reading list be posted, please allow at least 3 working days for processing.

Please restrict your lists to open access materials† or to articles, e-books or other online resources for which the library has licensed access*.

*Licensed databases include our Electronic Book Collections and the databases listed on the Indexes & Databases page, and some individual online journal titles accessible from the Library Catalogue. To find individual journal titles subscribed to by the Mount Allison University Libraries search Journal Finder.

†Open access contributions must satisfy two conditions:

1. The author(s) and right holder(s) of such contributions grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship (community standards, will continue to provide the mechanism for enforcement of proper attribution and responsible use of the published work, as they do now), as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use.
2. A complete version of the work and all supplemental materials, including a copy of the permission as stated above, in an appropriate standard electronic format is deposited (and thus published) in at least one online repository using suitable technical standards (such as the Open Archive definitions) that is supported and maintained by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or other well established organization that seeks to enable open access, unrestricted distribution, inter operability, and long-term archiving.

(Berlin Declaration on Open Access, 2003)

Links to Open Access materials are available here.

Other Online Reading Lists

You can include links to electronic resources in Moodle (contact Toni Roberts for details) or create links in your course web page. When linking to electronic library resources, make sure you use a stable or persistent URL.  External documents linked to directly from the library catalogue should be fine, but when linking to sources within another database, the URL shown may not work for subsequent access.  Most, but not all databases provide stable URLs (e.g. JSTOR, ProQuest, Project Muse, EBSCO, Oxford, Springer, Wiley and our two e-book databases).  In ProQuest, look for:  “Copylink”, in JSTOR:  “Item Info”, EBSCO: “PermaLink”, Project Muse: “View in PDF”, Taylor & Francis: “Link”.)

If no stable URL is given, use the DOI (a permanent “digital object identifier”) available for some articles:  Copy the DOI from the first page of the article or document (e.g. doi:10.1177/1748048509104977).  Append the DOI to http://libproxy.mta.ca/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/ as in the following example:

http://libproxy.mta.ca/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0047287509346843

To ensure that students can access licensed material from off campus, always add the library proxy address ( http://libproxy.mta.ca/login?url= ) to the beginning of any URL.

E-book example:
http://libproxy.mta.ca/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/mta/Doc?id=10230607

Article example:
http://libproxy.mta.ca/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=2245053001&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=13370&RQT=309&VName=PQD

If the article or document you want to link to has no stable URL or DOI, making a PDF copy of the article may be permitted under the database license agreement.   Contact the Electronic Resources Librarian for details.

Students may also be given full citations for electronic journal articles or e-books in the Mount Allison University Libraries’ collections.  For access to e-books, students should be directed to search the Library Catalogue. To find articles in any of the online databases subscribed to by the libraries, students should be directed to search the Journal Finder.

For assistance with accessing articles and e-books please contact your Subject Librarian or the Research Help Desk

LIBRARY EQUIPMENT:

Microfilm/microfiche reader/printer/scanners, computer and audio-visual equipment for using CD-ROMs, audio recordings, DVDs and videos are available in the Libraries.

See the Services and Facilities page for more details.

ARCHIVES:

Located on the third floor, the Archives' staff is happy to help you and your students find archival material. The Archives holds University records and some private records of local families, clubs, businesses, and churches for administrative and research purposes.

Please telephone or email in advance of a visit: (506) 364-2563 | archives-at-mta.ca

For more information, see the Archives Web site or contact the Archives staff at archives-at-mta.ca.