Borrowing and collections

Information about Library membership, account, collections and access.

Library membership terms and conditions

Library membership information, including limits and loan periods for RMIT students, staff, alumni and external visitors.

Holds, renewals, returns and overdues

Essential information about borrowing, reserving, renewing and returning library loans, including disputed returns.

Collections

Library collections contain resources in a variety of types and formats, such as databases, books, journals, multimedia and standards.

Get resources from other libraries

Options for getting resources from our off-site collections and other Australian and overseas libraries.

Library purchase requests

RMIT staff and students can recommend relevant resources to add to the Library collection.

Online access troubleshooting

General advice and suggested solutions for the most common access issues to the library's online collections.

Logging in to your Library account

Your Library account includes details about your loans, holds, library messages and overdues. Once you log in, you'll be able to:

check current items you have on loan
view your loan history
check if you have any holds
check if your Library account has been blocked
reset your login details (CAVAL and Special Borrowers)

RMIT students, staff and alumni: log in with your RMIT ID and password (do not use your Library barcode).

CAVAL and Special Borrowers: log in using Barcode/ID and password.

To reset your password, select the 'Personal Details' tab and click on the 'Caval/Special Borrowers Login Reset' button. If you have forgotten your password, please contact the Library and we will reset it for you.

If at any time your library account has a block, it may be because you have overdue items. Further information on overdues is available. You will not be able to borrow more items until the block has been removed.

You can also log in to 'My Library Account' from the Library home page or by selecting the 'Log in' button on the LibrarySearch banner.

Community visitors are welcome

Our Library is open to community visitors and researchers. Membership is not required to access physical collections, free online resources and open study spaces. There are also options for those wishing to borrow from our collections.

More about Library access for community visitors

Help and related information

Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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