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Borrowing Privileges - TAL (The Alberta Library)

Applies to individuals with the following appointments:  

  • Individuals from across Alberta who present a valid TAL card from their home library.

Annual Fee:

  • none

NOTE: Loan periods are for the period specified or to the expiration date of your borrowing privileges, whichever comes first.

On-site Collections of Resources

Loan Period

Renewals

Holds/Recalls/Bookings

Main Circulating items (except non-current periodicals)

3 weeks

1, subject to immediate recall

Not accepted

Non-current periodicals

non-circulating

Not permitted

Not accepted

Current periodicals

non-circulating

Not permitted

Not accepted

Reference, Government Documents, Microforms

non-circulating

Not permitted

Not accepted

Reserve collections

non-circulating

Not permitted

Not accepted

Audiovisual software

non-circulating

Not permitted

Not accepted

Audiovisual equipment (high-demand)

non-circulating

Not permitted

Not accepted

Audiovisual equipment (low-demand)

non-circulating

Not permitted

Not accepted

Special Collections, University Archives, University Records

non-circulating

Not permitted

Not accepted

Curriculum Laboratory circulating items

non-circulating

Not permitted

Not accepted

 

Loan Limits:

  • limit of 5 items from the Main Circulating collection (excluding non-current periodicals)

Holds/Recalls/Bookings:

  • Not accepted

Interlibrary Loan

  • Not permitted

Access to Licensed Electronic Resources Off-campus:

  • not permitted
  • NOTE: Access is available to some free indexes/databases from off-campus, though most are abstracts/indexes and not full text.
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