| User Types | Registration | Loans | Access to HEC Montréal's Electronic Resources | Holds/Scanning via Sofia | ILL via Sofia* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Students (all programs and independent students) Postdoctoral interns Professors and lecturers Employees Retired employees |
Automatic | HEC Montréal Card | Yes | Yes | Article and book chapter copies only |
| Guests | Automatic or Granted Rights Form | HEC Montréal Card or HEC Montréal Library Card | Yes | Guest account required (please ask the library staff) | Guest account required (please ask the library staff) |
| Guest research students | Automatic | HEC Montréal Library Card | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| * All users who have active HEC Montréal login credentials | |||||
| User Types | Registration | Loans | Access to HEC Montréal's Electronic Resources | Holds/Scanning via Sofia | ILL via Sofia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Students (all programs and independent students) Postdoctoral interns Professors and lecturers Employees Retired employees |
Automatic | Affiliated university card | At the library: an Internet session on a public workstation will be opened by the library staff |
Yes, via their university library's website | No |
| User Types | Registration | Loans | Access to HEC Montréal's Electronic Resources | Holds/Scanning via Sofia | ILL via Sofia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) Council of Atlantic University Libraries/Conseil des bibliothèques universitaires de l'Atlantique (CAUL/CBUA) Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries - Ouest canadien (COPPUL) Association pour la recherche au collégial - Québec (ARC) BAnQ BCI Employees |
Consent form + registration in WMS + id with picture | Agreement Card + University Card | At the library: an Internet session on a public workstation will be opened by the library staff |
No | No |
| User Types | Registration | Loans | Access to HEC Montréal's Electronic Resources | Holds/Scanning via Sofia | ILL via Sofia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HEC Montréal Alumni | Verification in the HEC Montréal Alumni Directory | HEC Montréal Library Card |
|
No | No |
| User Types | Registration | Loans | Access to HEC Montréal's Electronic Resources | Holds/Scanning via Sofia | ILL via Sofia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Individual Registration | Paid subcription form Subscription fees : 100$ or more donation / 1 year with tax receipt from the HEC Montréal Foundation |
HEC Montréal Library Card |
At the library: |
Yes | No |
Maximum documents : 100 documents
| Document Types | Loan Duration | Renewals | Holds (max. : 50) |
| Books | 30 days | Automatic unless the document is on hold or the account is expired | Yes |
| Course Reserve (5 documents max.; on-site consultation only) |
3 hours | No | No |
| Dictionaries | 3 days | No | No |
| Laptops | 6 hours or more | Yes | No |
| Headphones, calculators, earmuffs, smartphone charging cables, Apple power adapter | 24 hours | Yes | No |
| Interlibrary loans | 30 days unless stated otherwise (on-site consultation only) | Automatic unless the document is recalled by the lending library |
Maximum documents : 100 documents
| Document Types | Loan Duration | Renewals | Holds (max. : 50) |
| Books | 30 days | Automatic unless the document is on hold or the account is expired | No |
| Books' accompanying documents (CD-Roms, DVD, other) | 30 days | Automatic unless the document is on hold or the account is expired | No |
| Course Reserve (5 documents max., on-site consultation only) |
3 hours | No | No |
Maximum documents : 100 documents
| Document Types | Loan Duration | Renewals | Holds (max. : 50) |
| Books | 30 days | Automatic unless the document is on hold or the account is expired | No |
| Books' accompanying documents (CD-Roms, DVD, other) | 30 days | Automatic unless the document is on hold or the account is expired | No |
| Course Reserve (5 documents max., on-site consultation only) |
3 hours | No | No |
Maximum documents : 100 documents
| Document Types (available for direct loans at HEC Montréal only) | Loan Duration | Renouvellements | Holds (max. : 50) |
| Books | 30 days | Automatic (max. 5) unless the document is on hold or the account is expired | Yes |
| Books' accompanying documents (CD-Roms, DVD, other) | 30 days | Automatic (max. 5) unless the document is on hold or the account is expired | Yes |
| Course Reserve (5 documents max., on-site consultation only) |
3 hours | No | No |
Maximum documents : 100 documents
| Document types (available for direct loans at HEC Montréal only) | Loan Duration | Renewals | Holds (max. : 50) |
| Book | 30 days | Automatic (max. 5) unless the document is on hold or the account is expired | Yes |
| Book's accompanying documents(CD-Roms, DVD, other) | 30 days | Automatic (max. 5) unless the document is on hold or the account is expired | Yes |
| Course Reserve (5 documents max., on-site consultation only) |
3 hours | No | No |
| Description | Rate |
| Benefits card (paid membership) | $100.00 or more per year |
| Fee to replace a lost document | replacement cost + $30.00 administration fee per document + overdue fine (if applicable) |
| Lost external user card | $12.00 |
| Overdue fine | $0.50 per day per document (maximum $20.00 per document) |
| Overdue fine for laptops | 5.00$ per day after the first overdue day (maximum 100.00$) |
| Overdue fine for other items (headphones, earmuffs, calculators, chargers, mice) | $0.50 per hour per item (maximum $20.00 per item) |
| Overdue materials from Course Reserves | $1.75 per hour overdue per document (maximum $20.00 per document) |
| Recall fees (reserved documents) | $5.00 per document (after 7 days) |
| Replacement fee for laptops | laptop replacement cost + 30.00$ administration fee + overdue fine (if applicable) |
Materials can be placed on Course Reserves upon request by an instructor. They are available at the circulation desk.
We offer the service of digitizing chapters of a volume needed for your courses, about 20% of the total.
Within 24 to 48 hours, you will receive the requested documentation by email.
We invite you place your request using the Request/Scan button in Sofia, as shown on the image.
Other items include headphones, calculators, earmuffs, smartphone charging cables and an Apple power adapter.
You can borrow a laptop from the library if your meet these three conditions:
To borrow a laptop, you must:
The interlibrary loan service allows you to request documents that are not available at the HEC Montréal Library.
We invite you to place a request in Sofia by clicking on the Request Item through ILL as shown on the image.
For more information :
The BCI (Bureau de coopération interuniversitaire) card is available to all students registered in a program as well as to all teaching and non-teaching staff. BCI card holders can borrow documents from participating libraries in Canada.
The BCI card is issued on September 30th of each year for the duration of one year ; therefore, a new card must be requested each year. Come visit us at the circulation desk to obtain one.
Contact our services desk to obtain one.
