Students

Library and Archives: Information for Students

• The gateway to library and archival resources and services continues to be the Library and Archives homepage, which also has a COVID-19 FAQ that is regularly updated; every student should bookmark it.
• Students are encouraged to consult the various disciplinary Research Guides accessible through the Library and Archives homepage.
• The library Research Skills Tutorial on D2L remains available.
• Librarians are available to provide research help by e-mail or by appointment by telephone or Zoom, and the Ask the Library online chat research help service will be available as normal.
• As COVID-19 safety controls may allow at Laurentian and at other universities, the RACER inter-library loan and document delivery service will gradually return to operation, with online journal articles being more easily obtainable than other kinds of documents in the nearer term.
• The Library and Archives will provide access to physical books in its collections, whether through the ability to borrow them or through special temporary access to online versions.
• Lending of physical books will first occur on a curbside pickup basis (i.e., retrieval of pre-requested books at the building door), possibly from mid-summer, and later, as COVID-19 safety controls may allow, at the service counters of the Desmarais and Architecture libraries.
• Onsite consultation of physical library resources and use of some library study spaces will occur in the fall as COVID-19 safety controls may allow.
• As COVID-19 safety controls may allow, the Library and Archives will recall borrowed books whose original due dates fall before the recall date, assisting with postal returns for distant borrowers; until such a recall, overdue charges remain suspended.
• In addition to the Research Skills tutorial, librarians will be providing two video workshops, the first on Searching Database and Google Scholar, and the second on installing the Zotero citation manager to capture and use references in a paper. Students who successfully complete one or both of these workshops will be issued a certificate of completion by a librarian.
• Using Zoom, librarians are also pleased to provide customized online library research workshops for individual classes at the request of course instructors.
• Limited access to the Archives for research using archival fonds will be available by appointment; reference services by e-mail remain available.

Bookstore: Information for Students

• The Laurentian University Campus Store is open for online orders and curbside pick-up.
• We will be offering curbside pick-up or ship to your home. Please note that shipping charges may apply. Online orders can be made at www.laurentianshop.ca.
• Textbooks can be ordered under the fall term using your course code. We will provide textbook formats of new, used, rental and/or digital.
• If you choose “pick up at store”, you will receive emails directing you on how to pick up your purchase. You will then receive an email letting you know to call the store for directions for curbside pick-up. A pick-up date will be scheduled when you call.
• Curbside pick-up will be available at the front entrance of the RD Parker building Monday to Friday, 11am to 3pm. Parking areas will be designated. Please call us to let us know you’ve arrived then walk to the entrance where your order will be ready for you. You will need your photo ID and a copy of your order summary with you for the pick-up. Please see link for the campus map for Building #12 at https://laurentian.ca/campus-maps.
• Failure to pick up your purchase on the date agreed upon will require you to call to arrange a second pick up date.
• Any questions you have can be sent by email to 0923mgr@follett.com.

Requirements for pick up are:

1. A mask
2. Hand sanitizing at the front entrance of the RD Parker Building
3. Photo ID presented at time of pick-up
4. Please follow floor arrows guiding you to the 2nd floor.
5. Please refrain from using elevators unless necessary
6. Follow distancing requirements of 2 meters when in line for pick-ups using the floor stickers provided

For students living in the residence;

Your books will be delivered by Laurentian University Shipping and Receiving to your porter in the residences.

• Approx. 30 pickups per day, 3 every 5 minutes, between 11am to 3pm, will be scheduled for students. If you do not pick up your purchase on the date and time scheduled for you, you can arrange a second pick-up date by returning into your order and scheduling a new date and time online.
• Any questions you may have can be sent by email to 0923mgr@follett.com.