Borrowing items

Reciprocal borrowing (CAL-RSA)

Concordia undergraduate and graduate students, staff and faculty (including retired faculty) may be eligible to borrow items in person from other Canadian university libraries outside of Quebec who are signatories to the Canadian Academic Libraries Resource Sharing Agreement (CAL-RSA - signatories are members of the COPPUL, OCUL, CAAL/CBPA and PBUQ consortia).

Your Concordia ID card will be accepted as proof of eligibility for borrowing privileges. We recommend however contacting the library you want to visit ahead of time to confirm this.

According to the agreement, reciprocal borrowing privileges will normally be the greater of those privileges that are granted to either undergraduates and/or community users.

When borrowing from other Canadian university libraries, please take note of the following:

• The borrower must show valid Concordia ID card.
• When making use of this service the borrower is agreeing to respect the policies and procedures of the lending library, including returns and fines policies.
• All fines, replacement costs, and other fees are based upon the policies of the lending library. The borrower in arrears may reestablish borrowing privileges once all fines and fees are paid to the lending library.
• Borrowed material may be returned at the returns counter of the lending library or to the returns counter of the borrower's home library.