You have full access to your NorQuest accounts for 18 months after graduation. During this time, you can continue using:
- Library collections and resources
- Public Computers
- Printing
- NorQuest student email
- NorQuest student wifi
Get your alumni library account
After 18 months, alumni are required to create an Alumni Library AccountHow to get an alumni library account:
- Contact the Alumni Relations Office to get proof of alumni status
- Email :alumni@norquest.ca
- Phone: 780.721.6026
- Visit the library in the Learner Centre on the second floor of Singhmar Centre for learning.
- Showproof of alumni status and government-issued picture ID to library staff
- You may choose to use your public library card as your alumni card or you may request a new alumni library card
Your alumni account will provide you with:
- Continuous access for five years
- Access to physical items at NorQuest College Library
- An alumni library card to checkout books, dvds and more
- Ability to place holds on materials
- Option to borrow up to 30 items at a time
- Three-week loans with up to four renewals
Terms and conditions
- It is your responsibility to return items, in good condition, by the due date.
- Failure to do so could result in a fines of $1/day per item until their return.
- Lost or damaged items may be charged their replacement costs.
- Failure to return books and/or pay your fines and fees may result in the loss of borrowing privileges.
Wifi access
Alumni may access NorQuest wifi via the NorQuest-Visitor network.
Need help getting started?
New to Library Search or need a refresher? We have resources available to help you navigate our library's online catalog and place holds on materials you need.
- Renewing borrowed resources
- Sign into your account.
- Click your name in the top right corner.
- Select My Loans from the drop-down menu.
- View your current loans and due dates.
- Click Renew for the items you want to extend.
- If successful, you'll see a confirmation, and the due date will update.
If renewal isn't possible, you may have reached the renewal limit or the item has been requested by another patron. In that case, return it by the due date.
- Placing a hold on a book
If you can't visit the library immediately or the item is checked out, submit a request to have it set aside.
- Sign into your account.
- Navigate to the item listing in the catalogue
- Click on the Request Button in the item listing
- Select NorQuest College Library from the dropdown menu
- Click Send Request.
- You will receive an email when your item is available to pick up from the Library desk.
- Managing your requests
- Sign into your account.
- Click My Requests from the drop-down menu or the Requests tab.
- Check your request status, queue position, and hold availability. Cancel requests if needed.
- Viewing saved searches
- Sign into your account.
- From the drop-down menu, click on My Saves Folder.
- Select your preferred tab from the following: Saved Items, Saved Searches, and Search History.
All the individual results you pinned or saved can be found in the Saved Items tab. To help you stay organized, you can add labels to individual results. These labels also appear on the right so you can use them to filter results.
To email or export your results:
- Open the saved items tab.
- Select the items you want to email or export by clicking on the checkbox to the upper left of each item in the listing.
- Click on the three dots located above the three save tabs and select email or export from the dropdown menu.
In the Saved Searches tab you'll see all your Saved Queries, including search terms, parameters and filters you've applied. Click on the search to run it again.
Online resources for alumni
Alumni can enjoy many online resources that support life-long learning and professional development. No authentication required!
Articles and primary sources
The Alberta Research Portal
The Alberta Research Portal is your gateway to a world-class collection of primary sources, including monographs, photographs, newspapers, poetry, original documents, records, and more.
BioMed Central
A pioneer of open access publishing, BMC has an evolving portfolio of high quality peer-reviewed journals including broad interest titles such as BMC Biology and BMC Medicine.
Canadiana
Contains 19 million pages (96,000 titles) of digitized historical publications, including monographs, serials, and government publications. The collection is largely composed of materials published prior to 1921.
CanLII
Access court judgments from all Canadian courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, federal courts, and the courts in all Canada’s provinces and territories.
Cochrane Library
Provides high-quality, relevant, accessible systematic reviews and other synthesized research evidence.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
I-Portal
The I-Portal provides access digital Indigenous studies resources. Its primary focus is on Indigenous peoples of Canada with a secondary focus on Indigenous peoples of the United States, Australia, Aotearoa – New Zealand, and other areas of the world.
Journal of Practical Nurse Education and Practice
The main focus of this journal is on practical nurse education and practice. JPNEP is intended for educators and health care professionals, as well as students and non-academic audience.
PubMed
PubMed features biomedical and life sciences journal literature presented by the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine.
ScienceDirect
List of Open Access Journals.
SpringerOpen
High-level peer-review and production processes guarantee the quality and reliability of the research from all areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences.
Courses
Academic Earth
The first collection of free online college courses from the world’s top universities.
Lumen Course Catalog
Course materials are designed to strengthen learning using open educational resources (OER)
MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content.
Open.Michigan
Open.Michigan encourages researchers, learners, and instructors to maximize the impact and reach of their scholarly work through open sharing.
Open University
Anyone can learn for free on OpenLearn!
Saylor Academy
A nonprofit organization that offers free and open online courses to all who want to learn.
eBooks
BC Open Textbook Collection
Discover open textbooks that have been reviewed by faculty, meet our accessibility requirements, and/or include ancillary materials (quizzes, test banks, slides, videos, etc.).
Directory of Open Access Books
DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers.
HathiTrust Digital Library
HathiTrust provides access to digitized content from a variety of sources. Not all items are available to the public.
LibriVox
Books in the public domain narrated by real people and distributed for free, in audio format on the internet.
Milne Open Textbooks
A catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.
Open Education Alberta
A collaborative, no-fee publishing services for open textbooks and other open educational resources available to all Alberta post-secondary institutions.
openstax
Peer-reviewed. Openly licensed. 100% free textbooks.
Open Textbook Library
University of Minnesota's Open Education Network.
Videos
Academic Film Archive of North America
The Academic Film Archive of North America (AFA) acquires, preserves, documents, and promotes academic films by providing an archive, resource, and forum for continuing scholarly advancement and public exhibition.
American Indian Film Gallery
The American Indian Film Gallery (AIFG) is an online collection of films by and about Native peoples of the Americas. The original films are preserved by the Library of Congress; this digital resource now resides at the University of Arizona.
CrashCourse
Free high quality educational videos on a wide variety of subjects, including organic chemistry, literature, world history, biology, philosophy, theater, ecology, and many more!
The World Lecture Project
A platform for delivering academic videos from faculties worldwide.
HippoCampus
General education subjects to middle-school and high-school teachers and college professors, and their students, free of charge.
TED
TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less).
YouTube Education
Designed to offer teens and adults quality learning content.