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NEOS
Interlibrary Loan
Library Card
Borrowing Policy
Fines & Charges
Photocopying
NEOS
- Taylor students may request books from other NEOS libraries using the online catalogue, or in person from the owning library.
- Taylor students may request articles using the green NEOS request form available at the Circulation desk, or obtained in person at the owning library.
- Materials requested from NEOS libraries normally arrive within 2-3 business days and are held for 7 days for pick up.
- An e-mail notification will be sent when the book arrives. Books may be borrowed from and returned to any library within NEOS without charge.
Interlibrary Loan
If our library or any other NEOS libraries do not have an item you need, Taylor students may request books and articles from a library outside of NEOS.
- Use the blue ILL request form, complete with faculty signature, for borrowing items outside of NEOS.
- Request forms are available at the Circulation desks.
- There is no charge to students for this service.
- Please note that obtaining items from outside of NEOS is not guaranteed, and can take a longer period of time to obtain. So, please plan ahead.
Library Card
- A library card is needed for circulation transactions.
- Library cards can be obtained during afternoons, Monday to Friday.
- All fines must be paid before a library card can be activated. All library cards expire on August 31st of the current academic year.
- A library card will be expired and borrowing privileges revoked if a student withdraws from Taylor.
- An e-mail address is required to receive overdue, holds pick-up and fines notices. Notices are sent as a courtesy only. Whether or not a notice is received, the onus is on the cardholder to return all items on time, pickup holds within seven days and to pay all fines.
- Library cards are not transferable.
Borrowing Policy
- Books from Taylor and NEOS are loaned for 2 weeks.
- Taylor students may borrow an unlimited amount of books.
- Taylor students are allowed 2 renewals on Taylor and NEOS books if there are no holds on the books.
- Reference books, Periodicals and Vinyl Records are not to be removed from the library and are for in-house use only.
- Videos, CDs and DVDs can only be checked out locally for 4 hours by Taylor students and staff and cannot be renewed.
- Reserve items are available at the circulation desk for Taylor students only.
- Only two reserve items may be checked out at one time.
- Loan periods of reserve items are determined by the faculty who teaches the course. Usually the loan period is two hours.
- There are no renewals for reserve items. Reserve items may be borrowed overnight 30 minutes before the library closes and must be returned within the first 15 minutes the library is open the next day.
Borrowing privileges are suspended when more that nine items are overdue, or when fines exceed $50.00.
Fines & Charges
Overdue fines for Taylor students:
- Taylor books - $0.50 per day/per item.
- NEOS books - $1.00 per day/per item.
- Reserve items - $1.00 per hour/per item.
- Videos, CDs and DVDs - $1.00 per day/per item.
- Items on recall - $5.00 per item plus $1.00 per day/per item.
Taylor and NEOS overdue fines are payable at our library.
Other charges:
- Replacement of a library card is $10.00.
- Lost or damaged items - cost of the item plus $15.00 processing fee. Lost or damaged item charges are payable at the library that owns the item. (Processing fee charge varies across NEOS libraries).
Photocopying
- Taylor students may purchase a personal copy code at $0.10 per copy with a minimum purchase of 50 copies. Personal codes may be purchased weekday afternoons at the circulation desk. Any remaining balance will be carried forward.
OR
- A generic copy code may be purchased by anyone, which has no minimum purchase requirement. The generic code is $0.15 per copy and is paid with each use. Generic codes can be purchased at anytime the library is open at the circulation desk.
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