Suggesting and Requesting Materials
An interlibrary loan is how we connect you with materials from libraries outside of Saskatchewan. If an item isn’t available in the province-wide library catalogue, RPL can request it from other libraries in Canada.
Turnaround times and loan periods vary depending on the lending library. Please submit your request with accurate information and as much detail as possible as that will speed up the process. You will be notified when your requested item is available for pick-up.
Renewals are up to the lending library. Please contact library staff if you wish to renew your interlibrary loan.
Yes! You can pick up and return interlibrary loan items at any Regina Public Library location.
- Items available or on-order in our catalogue
- Books published in the current or previous calendar year
- DVDs, videos, audiobooks, CDs, and other audio-visual and multimedia items
- Whole issues of magazines
- Items that are not available in Canadian libraries.
You’ll need a Regina Public Library card and a PIN (personal identification number) to request a title through interlibrary loan or suggest a title for purchase.
You can submit up to 10 requests per month.
Yes, we’re happy to provide photocopies of magazine articles through interlibrary loan. Please search for the title of the magazine or journal in our E-Journal Portal before submitting your request — we might already have digital access to the article you’re looking for.
If you still can't find what you are looking for, feel free to submit a request. Keep in mind that our article-sharing partners are Canadian academic and special libraries, so they’ll have access to academic journals, not popular magazines.
Digital copies are provided in PDF format, free of charge. Print copies will be subject to our usual charges for printing.
Your library account will be billed for the replacement cost of the unreturned item. If you return the item in good condition the replacement cost will be removed from your account.
We’ll make every attempt to fulfill your requests, but we can’t guarantee that each attempt will be successful. If a title has already been submitted and gone through the request process once, and has been deemed unsuitable for our collection, or isn’t available through interlibrary loan, it won’t be considered again — even if it’s been submitted several times.
Yes. Please select Microform as the format of the item and then fill an as much information as you can.
Please note that microfilms will only be sent to RPL’s Central Library, where our microfilm readers and printers are kept.
No. Instruments are only available to Regina Public Library cardholders. They cannot be checked out with Community Access, Special Circumstance, Temporary, Unverified or Virtual Services RPL cards, or cards from other Saskatchewan public library regions or municipalities.
Ask a Librarian Chat
RPL's online chat service is only available during the Library's regular hours of service when staff are logged on and ready to help you. During these support hours you will be able to initiate a live chat with library support staff by selecting the purple LIVE CHAT graphic displayed in the bottom right section of your screen.
RPL Support Hours
Mon - Thurs: | 9:30am - 9:00pm |
Fri - Sat: | 10:00am - 6:00pm |
Sun: | 1:00pm - 5:00pm |
If you have difficulty using online chat, or have a question when we are offline, please send an email to
askalibrarian@reginalibrary.ca
or phone us at 306.777.6000
(306.777.6111 for renewals).