Reservations of Library Items - To learn how to make a reservation click here.  Some rules to remember when doing so, are the following:

1. You can reserve a maximum of 3 library items at any one time.
2. If a reservation for a library item you currently hold is made, you will be notified by an email to your MCAST email account.  If this is unavailable, then through an email to your personal email account, if the email address you gave us on registration is a valid one.  You will be informed that renewal is not possible and kindly asked to return it by its due date or earlier, if possible.
3. Reserved items can be 'deleted' any time and replaced by other reservations.
4. If a reservation for a library item you currently hold is cancelled, you will be notified by an email of such cancellation.  You will be informed that you now can renew such item as usual.
5. Only items that are already on loan and appearing on the Online Catalogue as 'On loan due back on ...' can be reserved.
6. Library items that are available (that is, on the shelves) cannot be reserved. You should call for them personally at the respective library.
7. Only the following shelf marks can be reserved:
   1. Blank shelf mark
   2. "EL", "F", "FM", "G", " I", "IF", "IM",  "J", "JM", "K", "KM",  "LOA", "M", and "Y0-Y4" (See note 1 below for meaning of these shelf marks).
8. When an item is already on loan in your name, you cannot make a reservation of such item.  First it has to be borrowed by somebody else before you can reserve it. 
9. When an item reserved by you is returned to the library, it will be put aside for you to collect within 7 days.
   1. This reserved item will appear under your 'Account Status' in your online My Library Account.
   2. Once the item is returned to the library, you will be notified through an email.
   3. No further reminders will be sent, whether through email, post, or phone.
   4. It is entirely your responsibility to come personally to pick up the item during the 7 days it is kept behind the counter for you.
   5. The reservation will drop once the 7-day period expires.
   6. Repeated cases of reserved items which are not picked up, may lead to your online library account being closed.

Renewals of Library Items - To learn how to renew library items, click here.  Some rules to remember when doing so, are the following:

1. Library items that have been reserved by others cannot be renewed and they should be returned immediately on the day that they are due for return.
2. A library item can only be renewed from 3 days before it is due till the evening of the day it is due.  Notifications to this effect will be sent to your MCAST email account.  If this is unavailable, then through an email to your personal email account, if the email address you gave us on registration is a valid one. 
3. Once the library item becomes overdue it cannot be renewed online.  Unless you renew it personally at the library, fines will start to apply.  Should you want to renew it, you will have to come personally to the library and pay any applicable fines before you can do so. Fines (€0.12 / library open day / item) are incremental day by day for each item that is overdue.
4. An online renewal of a library item will be for the same number of days that were applicable at the time of its first physical borrowing.
5. Only the following shelf marks can be renewed:
   1. Blank shelf mark
   2. "B-S P", "B-S PM", "EL", "F", "FM", " I", "IF", "IM", "IP", "IPM", "J", "JM", "JP", "K", "KM", "LOA", "M", "P", "PM", "Y0-Y4"   (See Note 1 below for meaning of these shelf marks).
6. Once renewal of the library item has been successfully completed, it is your responsibility to take note of the next due date appearing online.
7. At the end of June of each academic year, all library items must be physically returned to the Library for an annual stock take.  Therefore, online renewal during the last two weeks of June will not be possible.

Note 1 – Meaning of shelf marks

• Blank shelf mark  –  An ordinary lending book (90% of our collections)
• "B-S" - Learning Support Unit collection
• “EL” - Everyman’s Library collection
• “F” - Fiction, “FM” - Maltese Fiction
• "G" - Games and toys
• “I” - Intermediate level, ”IF” - Intermediate Fiction,  "IM" - Intermediate Melitensia
• “J” - Junior level, “JM” - Junior Melitensia
• “K” - Kindergarten, “KM” - Kindergarten Melitensia
• “LOA” - Library of America Collection
• “M” - Melitensia, an ordinary lending book in Maltese or in any other language, but about a Maltese subject
• "P" - Periodical, "PM" - Periodical Melitensia, "B-S P" - Learning Support Unit Periodical, "B-S PM" - Learning Support Unit Periodical Melitensia, "IP" - Intermediate level Periodical, "IPM" - Intermediate level Periodical Melitensia, "JP" - Junior level Periodical 
• "Y0-Y4" - Graded English Reading

 Last Updated:  14th January 2016