Monks, Employees & Clyde Sisters

There are two ways to start your search for items in our library.

Library Home Page for a quick search

Library Catalog for a detailed search

Finding an item in our library.

First, make sure the item has the status, Available, in the catalog.

• Books are located on all three floors.
• CDs, DVDs, and Videos are located on the third floor.
• Sound Cassettes are on the second floor.
• The Media Collection is located in the hallway of the library offices.

Click here for more information on borrowing, requesting and renewing items.

Monks are given a library account when they enter the monastery. Abbey Employees and Clyde Sisters may request a library account.

Access Library Account

Place your returns on the shelves in the hallway of the library offices. The return shelves are to the right as you enter the hallway from the reading room. If the office is closed, you may put the item on the circulation desk in the reading room.

The library maintains two displays: New Additions Display and a Theme Display. Items on the New Additions Display are changed weekly. Theme Display items are changed every two weeks.

Display items may not be checked out immediately, but may be reserved. To reserve a display item, sign your name on the circulation card for books or sign the checkout sheet for Audio Visual items, but leave the item on the display. When the displays are rotated, the library will notify you that you can come and pick up your item.

Abbey monks and employees have wireless access in the library through their Conception Abbey computing account. Seminary faculty and staff and seminarians also have access.

Click here for more information about Computers, Photocopier and Internet Access.

The library provides a number of study and reading spaces throughout our three floors.

We ask that you be considerate of others when using these spaces.

The library provides signs for items that you wish to set aside when you are temporarily away from your study space. Please consolidate your items into a small, orderly pile so others can use the study space when you are not using it. The library is not responsible for missing items.

The library subscribes to a number of databases. They offer a variety of information through indexes, full-text articles, dictionary and encyclopedia entries and images.

Click here to find out more about each database.

The Librarians are here to help you find the information you need.

Contact us or drop by the library during office hours.

If another patron requests the item, you will be notified and given two weeks to return the recalled item.

Click here for more information about overdue and lost items.