Borrowing

Find out about our key library services: lending, renewals, reservations and interloans

Lending

• our student ID card is your library card
• Most material for loan can be borrowed for three weeks
• You can have up to eight items on issue to you at any one time
• Journals, reference books, vertical file material, and books on closed reserve may not be taken out of the library
• Items may be recalled at any time
• Items can be borrowed from any of the campus libraries
• Where necessary, an SMS message about reserves and overdues will be sent to your cell-phone
• Borrower records can be checked online from the library catalogue page - login is your student or staff ID and click on "Forgotten your password" link if you do not know your password

Renewals

• You may renew an item twice as long as it is not required by another borrower
• Phone reservations - Freephone: 0800 WHITIREIA ( 0800 944 847 ) or 04 237 3105 (Porirua) or 04 237 3100 x4242 (Kapiti) or 09 379 4666 x9703 (Auckland)
• E-mail renewals - library@whitireia.ac.nz
• Website renewals - library catalogue (login and password required)

Reservations

• Items which are on loan can be reserved
• You collect reserved materials from the circulation desk
• Items are held for seven days
• Phone reservations - Freephone: 0800 WHITIREIA ( 0800 944 847 ) or 04 237 3105 (Porirua) or 04 237 3100 x4242 (Kapiti) or 09 379 4666 x9703 (Auckland)
• E-mail reservations - library@whitireia.ac.nz
• Website renewals - library catalogue (login and password required)

Interloans

• You are able to borrow from other libraries in New Zealand through the interloan system
• Up to ten items a year can be interloaned free of charge
• Interloaned material is collected from and returned to the circulation desk
• Phone reservations - Freephone: 0800 WHITIREIA ( 0800 944 847 ) or 04 237 3105 (Porirua) or 04 237 3100 x4242 (Kapiti) or 09 379 4666 x9703 (Auckland)
• E-mail queries - library@whitireia.ac.nz
• Fill out and submit a Library Interloan Request Form