Community & Family Services

In addition to offering services to NU-Q students, staff and faculty, the library also offers membership to:

• Alumni
• NU-Q family members
• Doha community members

Alumni services

Library use and borrowing privileges are available to NU-Q alumni and they are eligible for a library card upon graduation. The card is renewable on a yearly basis.

Borrower's cards do not grant patrons access to NU Library's online databases, which require the use of a NetID. Interlibrary loans are not available to alumni.

NU-Q family services

Spouses and children over the age of 15 of NU-Q faculty or staff may obtain a borrower's card, valid for up to one year. 

Borrower's cards do not grant patrons access to NU Library's online databases, which require the use of a NetID. Interlibrary loans are not available to family borrowers.

Eligibility and terms

1. Members must be 15 years of age or older.
2. You may borrow up to 10 books for a loan period of 30 days, 10 videorecordings for a period of 10 days, and 10 magazines for a period of 10 days.
3. Book and video loans may be renewed once online, by phone or in person if no-one else has reserved the item or the item is not overdue.
4. If you do not return books by the due date, your privileges will be blocked. If you continually return overdue items, you will permanently lose your borrowing privileges and be banned from using the library.
5. You may not borrow reference books or other materials that are for use in the library only.
6. You may not access reserve items which are for student use only.

Doha community borrower services

Library membership is available to Doha residents 18 years of age or older who are not faculty/staff/students from another education institution with a library or from another higher education institution with a library in Qatar. Interlibrary loans are not available to community borrowers. Borrower's cards do not grant patrons access to NU Library's online databases, which require the use of a NetID.

Eligibility and terms

1. Membership cost is 150 QAR per semester or part thereof.
2. Members must be 18 years of age or older.
3. You may borrow up to 10 books for a loan period of 30 days. You may borrow up to 10 journal back issues for a loan period of 10 days.
4. Book loans may be renewed once online, by phone or in person if no one else has reserved the item or the item is not overdue.
5. If you do not return books by the due date, your privileges will be blocked.  If you continually return overdue items, you will permanently lose your borrowing privileges and be banned from using the library.
6. You may not borrow reference books, magazines and other materials that are for use in the library only.
7. Videorecordings are not available for loan or use in the library.

Walk-in access

Walk-in access to our library and databases for non-profit/educational use. Note that database articles must be printed prior to logging off, as they cannot be emailed or saved to the desktop for future use. If you wish to borrow materials, you need to obtain a library card.

Any library guest can request a free temporary NetID (or "day pass") for use on the premises that will grant access to digital resources, but we are unable to provide permanent or remote access to online resources.