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Library Cards & Borrowing

Library Cards

The UBC Card now serves as a library card for current (active) UBC students, faculty and staff. You are eligible if you have an active appointment with and are paid by UBC.

Retired staff and certain units on campus who are ineligible for UBC Cards at this time can continue to obtain or renew cards online or in person at Koerner Library, Woodward Library, the three hospital branch libraries, or the UBC Library at Robson Square.

Borrower Services

Set up email reminder to return your books
Renew books online
Change PIN
Pay fines
Loan regulations
Document Delivery (from one UBC Library to another)
Interlibrary Loan (request an item not in the UBC Library collection)

If you have any Library card inquiries, please call 604.822.3869.

Online Access

Most online resources are available to UBC faculty, staff and students both on and off campus. Authentication may require using your UBCcard or CWL. License agreements with database vendors require that we always authenticate remote users. Instructions for remote access are available for a variety of browsers and operating systems.

Hospital staff should refer to this additional information first.

Assistance

Reference assistance and attendance at the Library’s drop-in training sessions are available free of charge. If you have a particular research need, you may wish to contact the appropriate subject librarian directly.

UBC Library

UBC Library is the second largest research library in Canada and includes 21 branches and divisions on the UBC Point Grey campus, at three off-campus teaching hospitals, at UBC Robson Square, and at UBC Okanagan.

The Library's collections include more than 5 million items in print and electronic format, not including print and electronic journals and series subscriptions, microform, documents, maps, archived materials, media and other items.

UBC Library also has the largest biomedical collection in Western Canada and the largest collection of Asian language materials in the country. It is a depository library for publications of the governments of BC, Canada, Japan and the United Nations.

For more information, see our Facts & Figures