The website above provides information on services, hours, online reference, e-mail reference service, frequently asked questions, etc. You may stop here to request that the staff search for a book or hold it for you when it comes in. Services relating to carrels, library cards, fines and other circulation services are offered here as well. Some microtext titles are listed in the online catalogue, UTCat . Specific items in the major research collections in microform are found through guides and indexes available in Microtext.
Staff are available to retrieve material and assist with the use of readers and printers.
Some of the most well-used databases are now available on the Web, such as the International Monetary Fund database and the Census of Canada. All data files in the DLS collection have codebooks describing their content and format. If the DLS collection does not have the information you are looking for, the staff will assist you in acquiring the data file by other means. The staff also provide technical assistance. This extensive collection of Canadian and international government publications includes 390,000 volumes, 2.2 million microforms and more than 50 CD-ROMs.