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Borrowing & Requests
Borrowing & Requests
Recommend Articles, Books & Other Materials for Purchase
Can’t find a resource you need in our libraries? Send us your request and we’ll source for it
Intralibrary Loan
Request for a book to be sent to another library within NUS Libraries for collection
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Services & Help
Services & Help
Online Tools
Learn about online tools such as Proxy Bookmarklet, BrowZine, Citation Managers and FindIt! with Google Scholar
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Spaces
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Collections
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Loan Privileges
NUS Students & Staff
Item & Renewal Limits | ||
Undergraduate | Honours & Graduate | Staff |
20 books with 3 renewals | 30 books with 3 renewals | 80 books with 11 renewals |
Loan Periods | |||
Type of Materials | Undergraduate | Honours & Graduate | Staff |
Main Shelves Books | 14 days | 28 days | 28 days |
Compact Disks & Diskettes (with main shelves books) | 14 days | 28 days | 28 days |
Short term loan book | 7 days | 7 days | 7 days |
RBR books | 2 hours/ overnight | 2 hours/ overnight | 2 hours/ overnight for academic staff only |
Bound Journals & Special Library materials | All libraries except C J Koh Law Library: 1 day | All libraries except C J Koh Law Library: 1 day | All libraries except C J Koh Law Library: 7 days + 1 online renewal |
| These materials are for use in the library, and cannot be checked out | ||
Carrels are available for graduate student and academic staff at selected libraries. Loan period varies from library to library.
For bound periodicals in the Closed Stacks or on the bound periodical shelves, NUS academic staff are allowed one online renewal.
External Members
Item & Renewal Limits | ||
Personal Basic Membership | All libraries except C J Koh Law Library: 6 items with 2 renewals | |
Personal Enhanced Membership | All libraries except C J Koh Law Library: 12 items with 2 renewals | |
Corporate Membership | All libraries except C J Koh Law Library: 20 items with 2 renewals | |
Loan Periods for: | Personal Basic Membership &Personal Enhanced Membership | Corporate Membership |
Main Shelf Books, Compact Disks & Diskettes (with main shelf books)
| All libraries except C J Koh Law Library: 14 Days | All libraries except C J Koh Law Library: 28 Days |
Short term loan book | All libraries except C J Koh Law Library: 7 Days | All libraries except C J Koh Law Library: 7 Days |
| These materials are for use in the library and cannot be checked out. Please note that certain library materials and facilities may only be accessed by NUS students and staff. | |
Loan entitlement vary according to membership type (basic or enhanced) and library. Maximum number of main shelf books for personal member is 6 and corporate member is 10 at C J Koh Law Library.
Part-time Staff
- Part-time staff are given loan privileges depending on the user's designation and request from the department
- Part-time teachers in the NUS Extension may apply to use NUS Libraries with the same loan privileges as external personal members
