Borrowing regulations
You must have a library card to be able to borrow material from the library. This is a personal card, and must only be used by the owner. The library card can be used through a physical card or through an app.
- Students at Nord University are automatically registered as users at the University Library. The student card or the barcode in the digital student ID app is the library card.
- Employees use their employee / key card as their library card. Contact the library to activate the card as a library card before borrowing books or requesting a book in Oria.
- External users may use a national library card or obtain a library card upon presentation of valid identification.
- Books: 28 days
- Periodicals, films and music: 28 days
- Reserved items (ie. items with a waiting list): 14 days.
- One day loans must be returned before 8 am the next weekday.
- Loans thorugh other libraries (interlibrary loans) are subject to the terms of the owning library.
The maximum loan period is 120 days.
The borrower is personally liable for the borrowed material, and for returning the material within the given due date.
Loans are automatically renewed up to the maximum loan period of 120 days. If the material has been reserved by someone else, the loan cannot be renewed. One day loans cannot be renewed.
Get an overview of your loans and requests by signing into Oria. Use your FEIDE-sign in (same as for Canvas, Studentweb, etc.).
- Every month you will get an e-mail with an overview of your loans.
- On the due date you will get a text message and an e-mail with a reminder of the due loans. If you don't return or renew your loans, you will receive additional reminders. If you do still not return your loans, you will receive a claim for compensation and will be unable to borrow any more items from the university library.
- If you receive a claim for compensation you can:
- Return the borrowed item before the due date on the compensation claim.
- Buy a new copy of the item for the library before the due date on the compensation claim.
- Pay for the replacement. The library will send an invoice to your e-mail.
- You have to replace lost or damaged items. The minimum price per document is NOK 750. Students and external users will also receive an administration fee of NOK 250 per invoice.
- If the document is returned after you have received a claim for compensation, you still have to pay the administration fee of NOK 250. You have to change the payment amount on the original invoice to pay the administration fee.
- Contact the library at e-mail ub@nord.no if you have any questions regarding received reminders or claims for compensation.
If you have unpaid replacements or administration fees, you will not be able to borrow new items or renew loans before the fee is paid.
In the Library's search engine Oria you find books, journal articles and other material that Nord University Library and other academic libraries have access to.
If the material is out on loan, or the University Library does not have the material, you may request/order it.
Sign into Oria via FEIDE (same sign-in as for Canvas, Studentweb). The interlibrary loan service is restricted to Nord University's students and employees. Students who live far from study locations may ask to have material sent to their home address.