Borrowing
Take your Library card and the items you want to borrow to the self check machine. If you need assistance, see a library staff member.
Loans
| Borrower type | Number of items | Loan period |
Renewals | Number of recalls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undergraduates Graduate Diploma students |
30 | 12 weeks | 5 | 10 |
| Murdoch Academics Emeritus Staff Postgraduates Honours Professional Staff |
99 | Semester | 5 | 20 |
| All other clients including: OUA students Alumni Reciprocal |
30 | 6 Weeks | 5 | 5 |
DVDs and videos
- 15 items for 6 weeks.
Return your loans to any Library, regardless of where you borrowed them from (except High Demand items).
Requests and recalls
If the item you need is on loan to someone else, you can request it using Findit or the Library Catalogue. You will be notified when the item is ready for collection.
Similarly, items you have borrowed may be recalled by someone else. You will be notified via email and have 7 days to return the item.
High Demand Collection
- 2 hour loans; DVDs: 3 hour loans.
- 2 items may be borrowed at a time.
- 1 renewal (in-person or online).
- Murdoch students and staff only.
- Bookings can be made for overnight loans, see Library staff
High Demand items can be borrowed overnight from the following times (with some exceptions): .
| Overnight loans from |
Return | |
|---|---|---|
| Geoffrey Bolton Library |
Weekdays:6pm; Weekends:4pm | Within one hour of Library next opening |
| Veterinary Library | 4pm | Weekdays:before 9am; Weekends:before 11am |
| Mandurah Campus Library | 2pm | Within one hour of Library next opening |
