Lending & Membership Services

Tai Tokerau Library Resources
From the main Voyager search list, open ‘Choose Limits,’ choose Tai Tokerau Library at ‘Location,’ then set limits. Your search will then only retrieve Tai Tokerau items or resources available ectronically.

Note that at Tai Tokerau periodicals, kits, videos, CDs and DVDs are shelved with the books. Tape cassettes are shelved together on the wall at the rear of the library.

Items unavailable at Tai Tokerau Library
If an item on Voyager is unavailable at Tai Tokerau but is available in another University of Auckland library, select the title on Voyager and use the 'Intercampus delivery' option from the Requests tab to place your request.

If all copies of the item are currently on loan you may recall it yourself via Voyager or ask staff to recall it for you. You will be notified when it is available for collection.

Material from outside the University of Auckland
Staff and students may obtain items the library does not hold by using the Interlibrary loan service.

• Staff and graduate students – 60 days
• Undergraduates – 28 days

The following items are not for loan except by special arrangement

• Periodicals
• Theses

Note: Faculty of Education students working off-campus on practicum are not granted extended borrowing privileges. You may renew your items online (by selecting Patron from Voyager) or by telephone to Tai Tokerau Library staff on (09) 470 1013.

Material borrowed from the library must be returned or renewed by the due date displayed on your issue docket. If you receive a recall notice for an item you have on loan the notice will display a new due date. Fines will be charged for late returns, $3 a day for late return of recalled items.

Returning items at Tai Tokerau

• You can return items from any other University of Auckland library to Tai Tokerau Library.
• Overnight short loan, oversize and recalled items should be returned directly to the Lending desk.
• When the library is closed you may return items through the slot to the right of the library’s main entrance doors.

Renewing items

• Items borrowed for 60 days may be renewed 2 times before they must be returned.
• Items borrowed for 28 days may be renewed once before they must be returned.
• If another borrower has placed a hold on an item you have on loan, you will not be able to renew it.

You are expected to keep track of your borrowing and renew items yourself by accessing your record via ‘Patron’ on the Voyager catalogue. If you require assistance to renew, please telephone Tai Tokerau Library on (09) 470 1013.

The Library charges fines for the late return of any material. It is your responsibility to return material on time. The Library is under no obligation to notify you when items are overdue. Even if you have not received a notice a fine will be charged when the items are returned after the date on the issue docket or the recall notice.

The Short Loan Collection contains items such as prescribed texts which are in high demand and are required by a large number of students, usually within a limited period of time. Some course Readings Books are available on Short Loan.

• Short loan items are located to the right of the main doors as you exit.
• To borrow you must have your ID card. No ID card = no borrowing.
• Short Loan items are issued for 2 hours during the day.
• Up to two items may be reserved on the day you wish to borrow them by writing your name and date on the slip provided in each item, or by telephone on (09) 470 1013.
• Overnight loans: items are available for overnight loan from 1 hour before closing. They must be returned within half an hour of opening the next working day.
• Fines for overdue items: Overdue short loan items are charged at 5c per minute (or $3.00 per hour). To avoid fines, return your items on time.

Periodicals are not for loan except by special arrangement.

Use your University of Auckland ID card to photocopy. Credit can be added to your account in the Library either by cash or Eftpos. Black and white copying is 10 cents per page. Colour copying is 25 cents per A4 or A3 page.

Remember you are subject to prevailing Copyright legislation.

• Staff, students and others officially associated with the University of Auckland
  A current University of Auckland ID card is required for all borrowing.
• Teacher Associate Members of the Sylvia Ashton-Warner Library
  Membership of the University Library may be granted to practising teachers or administrators employed as permanent employees of early childhood centres, primary, intermediate and secondary schools in the Auckland and Northland Regions, and home-schoolers in the Auckland and Northland Regions approved by the Ministry of Education.
• To obtain an application form
  Ask at the Tai Tokerau Library
• Or For more information contact
  Contact Helen Whiteman by e-mail or telephone (09) 623 8997 (direct dial)

             View the membership regulations for Associate Members scroll down to Teacher Associate
             Membership.