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title: "Place a hold on a book"
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**AUDIENCE:  **<span style="color: #bf2600">**STUDENTS**</span>** | **<span style="color: #bf2600">**STAFF**</span>

If the book you want is signed out from MacEwan Library or any other NEOS library, or is available in the stacks in another NEOS library, you can put a hold or request on the book. 

1. Log in to <u>[My Account](https://library.macewan.ca/my-account)</u>.
2. Search for the item you wish to borrow by using the search bar on the Library's <u>[homepage](https://library.macewan.ca/)</u>.
3. Click on the search result record of the item you want to open the item record.
4. In the “Action Links” pane in the upper-right of the item record, click on the **Place hold** link.
5. Select **MacEwan University Library **as your pickup location.
6. You will receive an email when your item is ready for pickup.
7. Items can be picked up on the **Holds Shelves** in front of the Borrower Services Desk.

> 📝 Hold requests can be placed on items from any NEOS partner library. <u>[NEOS](https://www.neoslibraries.ca/)</u> is a consortium of 18 government, health, college and university libraries that cooperate to share library resources, technology, collections and people.

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