Borrowing Materials

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UNB and STU students, faculty, and staff may borrow circulating material by presenting their validated university ID card at the Law Library Circulation Desk, subject to the policies below. 

Returning students MUST have their ID card validated at the beginning of each school year.

Off-campus students taking courses through UNB's College of Extended Learning or Saint Thomas University have a wide array of library resources available to them. Please contact the central UNB Libraries Distance Education Services by phone at 506-453-3516 or 1-888-393-8222, or by email at libde@unb.ca.  That office can arrange, on your behalf, to borrow Law Library books or to access legal electronic resources for journal articles; their Services Offered page explains in detail the help that is available to off-campus students within the library system.

LAW LIBRARY CIRCULATION POLICIES

IMPORTANT NOTE: BORROWING POLICIES AT OTHER UNB LIBRARIES DIFFER FROM THOSE OF THE LAW LIBRARY. PLEASE VERIFY LOAN PERIODS AND OTHER POLICIES WHEN BORROWING FROM OTHER LIBRARIES!

All circulating materials are checked out at the library's Circulation Desk by scanning the barcode on the user's ID card.  Therefore, it is necessary to bring a valid UNB or STU ID each time a user wishes to borrow items.   The regular loan period for circulating materials is three weeks. Note: This policy differs from the regular loan period at other UNB libraries, which is two weeks.

A UNB or STU user may place a "hold" on a Law Library book at the Law Library Circulation Desk. The book will be "recalled" from the user who has it checked out, and the person placing the hold will be notified when the book is returned to the Law Library. Note: Law Library recall policies differ from those of the other UNB libraries; please ask staff for more information. To place a "hold" on a book belonging to another UNB library, please contact that library's Circulation Department.

UNB and STU faculty members may borrow Law Library circulating books for a four-month research loan period.

Some materials are available for use only within the Law Library and are not lent. These include bound and unbound periodicals, bound and unbound law reports, statutes, regulations, digests, encyclopedias, unclassified government documents, reference books, and other special items.

Materials located in the Periodicals Reading Room (Room 123) may not be removed from that area without permission of the librarian on duty.

Periodical indexes and reference materials must be used in the Reference area adjacent to the Circulation Desk.

Subject to library regulations, bound law reports and bound periodicals may be signed out for extended periods by qualifying law students to one of the numbered, reserved carrels or tables in the Law Library; other users may use them in the general study/reading areas of the library. These items may also be signed out by UNB Law faculty to their offices in Ludlow Hall only.

RESERVE MATERIALS

Law Library materials put "on Reserve" by faculty must be requested at the Circulation Desk. To sign out Reserve materials, UNB and STU students, faculty and staff must present their validated university ID card at the Circulation Desk.  Extramural borrowers must present their "Extramural Borrower's Card" issued by the Law Library.  Members of the general public who wish to use Reserve materials, but who do not have an Extramural Borrower's Card, may inquire at the Circulation Desk.

All users MUST provide the call number of the needed item to Circulation staff so that the items can be retrieved quickly. To get the call number, check QUEST either under the last name of the faculty member OR the number of the course OR the name of the course.

Up to two Reserve items may be signed out at a time. (For multi-volume sets, all volumes count as "one" Reserve item.) The Reserve loan period is three consecutive hours in the library, or overnight; Reserve materials must be kept and used within the Law Library except in the case of overnight loans. Overnight loans of Reserve materials are strictly monitored and are available only to law students and law faculty. Overnight loans are due the next day at time of library opening.  Loose-leaf materials on Reserve are not available to anyone for overnight loan.

A Reserve item may be renewed for another three-hour period for in-library use only if no other person is waiting to use it.

RENEWING LIBRARY MATERIALS

Borrowers may renew materials up to five times, except when another user has recalled that item.  UNB and STU faculty members, students and staff may renew materials online by accessing QUEST with their personal PIN number, or by phone by calling the Law Library Circulation Desk (458-7983), or in person at the Law Library Circulation Desk.  Overdue materials and materials that have been recalled may NOT be renewed. Circulating materials are subject to recall after they have been checked out for two weeks.

OVERDUE MATERIALS

At the present time, the Law Library does not impose fines for overdue materials EXCEPT for overdue Reserve items OR materials that have been recalled because they are needed by another borrower (see FINES section below). However, the QUEST system reminds borrowers via e-mail about materials which are approaching overdue status, and such borrowers are automatically BLOCKED by QUEST from borrowing anything else once the items are overdue. 

LOST MATERIALS

Items overdue more than 30 days will be considered lost. At that time, and upon written notice to the delinquent borrower, the cost of replacement of missing items must be reimbursed to the Law Library. The bill for replacement will include the replacement cost of the item (minimum $50.00 per item) plus a non-refundable $20.00 processing fee per item.

FINES

Reserve books are due immediately upon the expiry of the three-hour/overnight loan period. Fines are levied on Reserve overdues at the rate of $2.00 per item per hour (or any part thereof). Fines begin to be calculated on overnight Reserve loans as of 9:00 a.m. on the date due (weekdays), or as of one hour after library opening on weekend days.

A fine of $2.00 per item per day (or any part thereof) will be charged on materials that have been recalled because they are needed by another borrower, beginning 6 days after the current borrower is notified in writing by the QUEST system that the material is needed.

In either of the above cases, the maximum fine per title is $28.00.  Fines are a debt owed to the university and are payable immediately.

Failure to pay Law Library fines will result in the loss of borrowing privileges and the refusal of the University Registrar to issue a grade report or transcript at the end of the academic term. Students will be prevented from registering during subsequent terms until all outstanding charges have been cleared.

NOTIFICATION OF OVERDUES, FINES AND OTHER LIBRARY MATTERS

UNB and STU students, faculty, and staff should activate their university e-mail account and check it regularly for messages from the UNB Libraries. Responding to such messages is the responsibility of the borrower, and failure to do so is not an excuse for failure to act upon the messages.

ASIN BORROWING CARD

Members of the UNB/STU academic community can take advantage of a Canada-wide reciprocal borrowing arrangement, allowing for the borrowing of books in person from other participating Canadian university libraries, including law libraries, without having to acquire a borrowing card from the lending institution.

Borrowing books from a participating library is subject to the policies of that library. Borrowers are responsible for becoming familiar with the local policies.

To obtain a card for this arrangement, visit the Harriet Irving Library Circulation Desk during normal weekday business hours and ask for an ASIN Card. Be sure to take your UNB/STU ID card.

There is no charge for a ASIN card.

Note: Students enrolled at any ASIN participating university may acquire an ASIN card at their home university and use it at any UNB library, including the Law Library, to borrow books, subject to the UNB lending library's policies with respect to the length of the loan andn umber of items that may be borrowed at any one time.

For more information, ask a librarian at the Law Library or the Harriet Irving Library.

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