Borrowing

Library Cards

For full-time St. Lawrence College students, your student photo ID card is also your Library Card. You must have your card with you in order to borrow. Library Cards may also be purchased, as follows:

Community residents for $15.00/year.

Queen's and RMC students for $10.00/year.

St. Lawrence College graduates with an alumni card may borrow free for the first year after graduation and for $10.00/year thereafter.

Renewals and Returns

You may renew an item over the phone IF it is not already overdue and your record is in good standing.

Brockville:  613 345-0660, ext. 3104

Cornwall:  613 933-6080, ext. 2701

Kingston:  613 544-5400, ext. 1705

Book return slots are available for returning materials when libraries are closed.

Fines

Yes, we do charge fines. If an item from the General Collection is not returned on time, the fine is $0.25 per day per item. The maximum fine is the cost of the book. Higher fines apply to the Reserve Collection.

General Collections

Books and audiovisual materials are interfiled on the shelves at the Kingston campus library. In the Cornwall and Brockville Campus Libraries, a separate shelving section holds the videos. Materials are shelved according to the Library of Congress call number system. Use the Library catalogue to find specific materials. Most books in the libraries may be borrowed for three weeks, although some in heavy demand may be restricted to one week only. Loan policies for audiovisual materials, such as DVDs, videotapes and audiocassettes, vary by campus. Materials may be renewed up to 5 times if no one else has requested them.

Special Collections

Reference Collections

These collections of encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, indexes, almanacs, etc. provide quick factual information and background information. These materials are for use in the library only.

Reserve Collections

These collections may contain current textbooks and other books or articles which teachers have assigned as reading. Most material is for use in the library only. Some items, such as accounting solutions manuals, may be on a one-hour loan. At the Kingston campus, some material may be borrowed overnight, from two hours before the library closes, and must be returned before 9:00am the following open day.

Periodicals Collections

The latest issues of current magazine, journal, and newspaper subscriptions are displayed in reading lounge areas in the libraries. Older issues are kept behind the circulation desk and are signed out from there for use in the libraries only.

Government Publications

These collections provide material from Canadian and Ontario departments and agencies, as well as census, other statistical and legal information. These materials are for use in the libraries only.

Electronic Resources

The SLC Library provides online databases, e-books and e-journals.  For information on the online library resources, click here.  These resources are available to current SLC students, faculty and staff.

Facilities

The three campus libraries all provide tables for group work, study carrels in quiet areas for individual work, and a reading lounge for browsing the latest periodicals. In addition, you will find computers providing access to the Internet as well as to subscribed databases, laser printers, VCRs and DVD players, and photocopiers. The Kingston Campus library also provides five seminar rooms, wireless internet access, and two laptops which SLC patrons may use within the library.

Services

Reference

Experienced and interested library staff at the Reference/Information Desks are ready to help you to find information you need, and to help you use the various catalogues and indexes in the library. Please don't hesitate to ask for help!

Inter Library Loans

If an item you want is not available in your campus library, we can usually obtain a copy for you, either from one of the other campus libraries, or front an outside library. Please talk to one of the library staff if you would like to use this service, and allow at least a week for delivery.

Library Tours

The Library staff will provide tours of the library for classes or other groups. The tours provide a good introduction to the layout of the library, the materials and the services that the library offers. Contact the following people to book tours:

Brockville:  Passant Elalfy

Cornwall:  Jessie Robertson

Kingston:  Jill Baker

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