About the Library

Interlibrary Loans

As a NAIT student or staff member, you can request that we borrow materials from other libraries for your use. We will bring books from another library, and we will request photocopied articles from magazines, journals, etc. that we do not hold in our own collections. Charges applied by the lending library will be passed on to you.

There are a number of ways in which you can check on the availability of the item you want and then obtain it through interlibrary loan:

• Interlibrary Loan Requests
• TAL Online Requests
• Find It! Locate an Article
• Find It Button in the Databases
• TAL (The Alberta Library) Card

Interlibrary Loan Requests

 Ways to request an Interlibrary Loan:

1. Use our interlibrary loan request forms:

• For books
• For articles 

2. Call or visit us. We will need to know: 

• Your name and status (student/staff) at NAIT.
• Where you saw the item (another library's catalogue? a footnote in an article you read?).
• The title (and title of publication if it is an article in a magazine).
• Author, editor, publisher, publication date, and edition.
• The date by which you need the item.
• Whether you are willing to pay any charges the lending library may apply.

Contact Information
McNally Library - Interlibrary Loans
Room U310B
Call: 780.471.8780
illo@nait.ca

TIPS:
Interlibrary Loans can take anywhere from 3 days to 3 months depending on the nature of the request and the distance the item has to travel. We recommend submitting these requests well ahead of the time you need the material.

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TAL Online Requests

You can search TAL Online to see if another library in Alberta has the book you need.

If you find it, just click on the title to get to the full record and then click on the 'REQUEST this item' button. Follow the instructions to have your request made automatically.

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Find It! Locate an Article

You can search for an article in our Find It! Locate an Article  if you have the citation (title of the article, name of the journal that it is in, etc.), this tool will connect you with the full text of the article if it is available in a NAIT Library source. If no source is available, you can automatically request an interlibrary loan, and we will obtain a photocopy of the article for you. 

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Find It Button in the Databases

You can click on the Find It button under any article you come across when you search the databases.  The Find It button connects you with the full text of the article if it is available in a NAIT Library source. If no source is available, you can automatically request an interlibrary loan, and we will obtain a photocopy of the article for you.

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TAL (The Alberta Library) Card

If you want to borrow directly from another library (perhaps you are in a hurry or would like to view material before you borrow it), you can get a TAL (The Alberta Library) Card from our library's Lending Services desk and use it at most Alberta libraries.

Items you borrow using the TAL card can be returned to us, and we will return them to the lending library.

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