NWT Public Library Services (NWTPLS) is pleased to be able to offer library service by way of our Borrower-By-Mail (BBM) Service to any individual living within the NWT who does not have access to a local community library. Each shipment sent to you will have prepaid return-mailing label. This enables you to receive and return material at no cost.

As a Borrower-By-Mail patron, you will receive a NWT Public Library Services borrower's card. This will enable you to borrow material from any NWTPLS Community Library should you happen to visit a community with a local community library.

As a Borrower-By-Mail patron, you may request up to five titles at any one time, with only three of the five being on the same subject. You can request material by title, author, or subject area. If the required material is not available within NWTPLS, we can ask for it from another Canadian library on interlibrary loan.

Materials sent to you from NWTPLS will have varying loan periods:

• Materials from NWTPLS are loaned for six weeks
• Talking books and kits (book & audiocassette, book & video, etc.) are loaned for six weeks and will be supplied only if available within NWTPLS
• Videos are loaned for six weeks and will be supplied only if available within NWTPLS
• Music CDs are loaned for six weeks and will be supplied only if available within NWTPLS
• Books borrowed from outside our library system must follow the lending library's regulations

The date an item is due back at NWTPLS will be clearly indicated on the return slip, which is sent with each item. Failure to return items in a timely fashion may result in loss of borrowing privileges.

To obtain a borrower's card or get further information please contact

NWT Public Library Services
Kevin Lafferty
E-mail: kevin_lafferty@gov.nt.ca
or: toll free phone at: 866-297-0232
or: fax: (867) 874-3321

To search the NWTPLS online catalogue, click on Books/Videos Search.