Desks and services

This is a guide to the assistance provided by various desks and services at the National Library.

Information and Circulation Desk

Visit the Circulation Desk to:

• Get help to find material you are looking for in catalogs and databases
• Get help to make requests
• Get a library card
• Pick up requested materials 
• Return materials 
• Leave requested materials you have already picked up for temporary hold (maximum of seven volumes per patron) 
• Ask questions about requests and borrowing 
• Hand in manual requests for materials that cannot be requested in Regina (please check first if material can be requested in Regina)
• Hand in interlibrary loan requests
• Hand in manual requests for materials that cannot be requested in Regina (please check first if material can be requested in Regina)
  Exceptions:
• Hand in requests for maps, pictures, printed music, posters, and manuscripts in the Special Reading Room Desk
  

The Information and Circulation Desk is open whenever the library is open.

Special Reading Room Desk

Visit the Special Reading Room Desk to:

• Request and pick up manuscripts, maps, pictures, printed music, and posters (some holdings in the map, printed music, and poster collections can be requested in Regina) 
• Pick up all material printed before 1830, newspapers printed before 1850 that are not available on microfilm, oversized materials, and ephemera (uncataloged) printed before 1900
• Pick up material that is fragile or must be protected for other reasons

Special rules apply in the Special Reading Room. See Reading Room Hours.

Reprographic Services

You may make photocopies of literature on open access shelves and of most foreign material yourself, using the copy machine next to the Information and Circulation Desk.

Since the Swedish Collection must be preserved for all time, you must order copies from the Swedish Collection and other fragile materials from Reprographic Services.

Reprographic Services is located next to the Information and Circulation Desk. See Hours.

Audiovisual Research Room

As a researcher you have access to the National Library’s audiovisual collections. Our research service can help you to search for TV, radio, video, movies presented in theaters, CDs, and multimedia.

To order material, you'll have to create an account in The Swedish Media Database. When your ordered material is ready, you'll study it in the Audiovisual Research Room. We have four private rooms and one group room for three persons. 

The Audiovisual Research Room is located next to the Main Reading Room. See Special Hours.