Forms
Request, recommend or report issues to the Library using the forms listed below.
Collections
- Recommend a Book / Film / Journal
- Recommend a Book for our Popular Reading Collection
- Request Print Purchase
Graduate Study Space (Mills Library)
- New! Effective October 23, 2025. We are no longer issuing white security cards to access the Grad Study Space. Please visit the Mills front desk to check out an access card. Cards will circulate for 1 day.
Library Services
- Advertise on Library Digital Signage
- Alumni Library Services
- Alumni Library Card (see overview for full instructions) - Request form at Service Desk
- Alumni eResources Application (see overview for full instructions)
- Books by Mail (see overview for more information)
- Course Reserves (McMaster instructors)
- eReserves (see overview for full instructions)
- Print Reserves (see overview for full instructions)
- Electronics Charging Unit Problem
- Guest Internet Account (on-campus use only) - Request form at Service Desk
- Library Information Technician Placement Inquiry
- Library Tour Request Form for Mills or Thode libraries (see overview for more information)
- Off-Campus Access Problem
- Omni Blank Request Form for interlibrary loan (see overview for more info)
- Report Accessibility Issue (content, facilities, web)
- Report Noise in a Quiet Area
- Report a Printing/Scanning/Copying Problem
- Request Alternate Format for Print Disabled Users
- Request to have a Display or a Charity Drop Box in the lobby of a library
- Request Permission to Film in Libraries
- Room and Equipment Booking for spaces and equipment bookable by students
- Room Booking Request Form for Mills, Community Room (bookable by University Senior Administration)
- Scanned Journal Image Problem
- University of Toronto Libraries Direct Borrow Card Application (McMaster graduate students only)
Lyons New Media Centre
- 3D Printing Request
- Advertise on Library Digital Signage
- Lyons Media Wall Submissions (see overview for full instructions)
Teaching and Learning
- Library Tour Request Form for Mills or Thode libraries (see overview for more information)
- OER (Open Educational Resources) Finding Service Request Form (see overview for full instructions)
- Request an Information Literacy (Research Skills) Class
- Request a Research Consultation or Book an Appointment
William Ready Division of Archives & Research Collections
- Material Request Form/Research Appointment (Mills Memorial Library location)
- Material Request Form/Research Appointment (Bertrand Russell Archives)
- Copy Request form
- Permission to Publish, Broadcast, Exhibit application form
- Researchers for Hire (currently open)
- Research Collections Travel Grant Application Form (see overview for full instructions)
- McMaster - ASECS Short Term Fellowships Application Form (see overview for full instructions)
- Dr. William G. Bensen and Family Travel Grant in Canadian History Application Form (see overview for full instructions)
- Application to Use the Margaret Laurence Journals and Manuscripts
- Key Porter fonds Research Agreement
- Reading Room Rules (updated 2022)
- Materials Handling Guidelines (updated 2022)
