Novanet Express enables Novanet
library borrowers to request, via the Novanet
catalogue, the delivery of materials from one Novanet library
to another. Novanet Express is offered free of charge.
* Novanet Express is closed for the holidays effective Friday December 18; service resumes on Monday January 4. Happy Holidays!
Novanet Express participating libraries include:
Atlantic School of Theology
Cape Breton University
Dalhousie University Libraries
Mount Saint Vincent University
Nova Scotia Agricultural Library
Nova Scotia Community College Libraries
NSCAD University
St. Francis Xavier University
Saint Mary's University
University of King's College
Delivery of Materials
Requests received before 9:00 a.m. are processed the same
day and are delivered within 3 business days.
Requests received after 9:00 a.m. are processed on the next
business day and are delivered within 3 business days.
Requesters select the library from which the item will be
sent, and the destination library.
Materials must be listed on the Novanet System to be eligible
for delivery. Users may request loans of circulating material
or photocopies of specific items.
Materials with an Item Status of Non Circulating
are not available for loan.. An item is available to request
if it has a Due Date status of "in library".
Copyright or other circumstances may restrict access to other
material (e.g. condition of the item).
Requesters are notified by e-mail or phone when the item is
ready to be picked up at the destination library.
If an item cannot be delivered, requesters will be notified
by e-mail or phone.
Materials are held for 5 days.
Acknowledgements, cancellations, and notifications about the
status of a request are sent to the patron's e-mail address
identified at the time of library registration.
Search the Novanet
catalogue to locate an item and select the Location
library from where it is being requested.
Step 2
Select Novanet Express/Hold (for a book or video)
or Novanet Express/Photocopy (for a journal article).
Step 3
At this point, if you are not logged in to the catalogue already,
Novanet will prompt you to do so. Searchers must enter their
14 digit Novanet barcode number provided at the time of library
registration, as well as the last 4 digits of their telephone
number as the password (searchers can change this password in
their library account). Novanet authenticates all patrons placing
a Novanet Express request to ensure they are valid Novanet
library borrowers.
Step 4
Novanet Express/Hold (for a book or video):
Select the Pickup/Deliver to: location from the drop-down
menu and click Go (the default pickup location will be
your home library).
The Full View of Record is confirmation of your request
with a note above the title indicating that the item has been
requested for pickup at the selected library (note the Due
Date's status on the item indicates "requested").
Novanet Express/Photocopy (for a journal article):
Select the Pickup/Deliver to: location from the drop-down
menu (the default pickup location will be your home library).
Complete the fields that require the author, title, pages,
and issue information of the periodical article. Note:
All fields indicated with a * are
required to be completed. If this information is not available,
type N/A.
Click Go.
The Full View of Record is confirmation of your request
with a note above the title indicating that the item has been
requested for pickup at the selected library.
CAUTION: If you request an item that is currently
on loan to another patron, you are placing a Hold request,
not a Novanet Express. Although you will be notified by the
library when this item is returned and is available to borrow,
this item will not be delivered to your location.
You are required to pick this item up at it's owning library
when it is returned to the shelves by the previous patron.
Placing a hold on an item only ensures that you are the next
borrower in the queue for this item and are required to visit
the owning library to pick it up.
