St. Mary’s University uses OCLC’s WorldShare Interlibrary Loan service and our symbol is STMCL. If you don’t use WorldShare, contact us via email.

* Due to the Canada Post labour action, there may be delays receiving *physical items sent from StMU to other libraries. Requests for *digital delivery are not affected.

Updated: October 20, 2025

St. Mary’s will only process Interlibrary Loan requests from libraries that are outside of Calgary. Requests from local libraries will not be fulfilled; patrons from local libraries need to come to St. Mary’s and sign out the materials with either their Student Card (SAIL libraries) or an Alberta Library Card (TAL).

Only items with a loan period of at least two weeks will be lent out for InterLibrary loan:

  • Books, VHS, DVDs may be lent out; loan period – items are due 6 weeks from the date of mailing;
  • items returned late from the borrowing library (exceeding the 6 week loan period) may be assessed a fine;
  • three renewals are possible.

The following materials are not available for InterLibrary lending:

  • Physical print journals (Journal Articles can be requested for digital delivery (photocopied) only);
  • EBooks;
  • General Reserves;
  • Course Reserves;
  • Reference Books;
  • Special Collections materials;
  • Education Curriculum Lab materials.