All Library Users
Library Cards
All WCC Library patrons must complete a registration form available at the Library Circulation Desk.
With the addition of a library barcode on the back, the picture ID card issued to WCC students, faculty, and staff serves as a library card. For students, a current semester sticker must also appear on the back of the ID card, available upon proof of payment of fees from the Student Activities office on the first floor of the Wayne Learning Center (WLC 145) where ID’s are originally made.
Continuing Education students should request a white card from the Continuing Education office in Walnut Building verifying their student status. The Library barcode will then be affixed to the back of that ID card.
All WCC faculty and staff members, whether part-time or full-time, must have a WCC picture ID made by the Student Activities Office to which the Library barcode may be affixed.
Other WCC patrons who live or work in Wayne County will be issued a generic plastic WCC Library card, but must present some form of picture ID to be issued the generic card.
Library cards may be requested online using the Library Card Application form. Once the prospective patron’s status as a current WCC faculty, staff, or student is verified with the Admissions and Records Department, a paper registration form will be completed by library staff with the information provided by the patron from the online form. This registration form, requiring the patron’s signature, will be mailed back to the patron with a self-addressed postage-paid envelope.
Upon receipt of the signed registration form in the library, library staff will mail a WCC Library patron barcode to the new user to affix to the back of his or her WCC ID card. Also, the current passwords for searching the NC LIVE and the Literature Resource Center databases (all other research databases use either the NC LIVE or the Literature Resource Center database password) will be sent to the new patron.
A current WCC Library card must always be presented at the circulation desk to check out any materials, use any materials placed on Academic Reserve, or to sign in to use a computer workstation.
A third party may present an absent WCC library patron’s card to check out materials for the absent patron, but the patron whose card is used will have full responsibility for the good condition and return of the items.
Computers
Sixteen computers are available for use by patrons with a library card. All library computer workstations have Windows XP, Microsoft Office 2007 and flash drives. Though the library computers are not Multimedia Ready and do not have course software installed, those features are offered in the Open Computer Lab in Magnolia Building, room 215.
Library computer users must abide by campus-wide computer use policies which included no access to social networking sites and audio or streaming videos because of bandwidth and security issues. The policies are clearly stated and available in print form at the Library Circulation Desk.
Wireless Access
Wireless internet access is available in the WCC Library to WCC students, faculty and staff who are registered as WCC Library users, and have registered in person with their laptops in hand with the WCC IT Department in the Open Computer Lab (Magnolia 215).
Student wireless registration expires on the last day of each semester and must be renewed in person with the laptop in hand at the Open Computer Lab. WCC faculty and staff wireless registration only expires when the employee is no longer currently employed with WCC.
A procedure will soon be implemented so that WCC Library users who are registered as non-students (community patrons) will be able to access the wireless network on a temporary basis.
Guests of the college, such as speakers, trainers or presenters, must be pre-registered with the WCC IT staff for temporary wireless access anywhere on the WCC campus. The request should be sent by email to the wcc-helpdesk at least a week in advance of the planned visit.
Reference Service
Library staff members are always happy to provide any help students or faculty may need to search the various databases or paper resources to find a wide variety of information. Interlibrary loan service is free and includes acquiring journal articles as well as books for any research project.
The Reference Librarian conducts library tours and information literacy training sessions in the Library Classroom by appointment. In these sessions, students receive hands-on instruction for searching the Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC), the NC LIVE aggregate database, the Literature Resource Center database, and other internet and paper resources.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
If the WCC Library does not own a book you need for your research, or an article you need is not available in either the NC LIVE or Literature Resource Center database, then you may request the library staff order a copy of the book or article from another library. This library-to-library lending is called Interlibrary Loan (ILL).
All ILL transactions for books and copies of articles are absolutely free to any WCC Library patron who holds a current WCC library card.
It will usually take one to two weeks for a book or a copy of an article to be mailed to the WCC Library for you to pickup and use. You will be called or emailed by the ILL staff member at the WCC Library when the book is ready for you.
You must present your WCC Library card when picking up an ILL loan, though you may give your library card to a third person to pick up the item. The requestor is always responsible for the return of the materials in good condition.
Online Databases
Three computers for searching the OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) are available in the library which do not require a library card or sign out procedure. This OPAC may be searched for holdings in the WCC Library only, or by a single search determine holdings in the entire CCLINC consortium catalogs. An interlibrary loan hold may be placed on an item owned by another community college library in the OPAC by any patron with a library card patron code. These items usually take at least a week to arrive at the WCC Library.
The NC LIVE aggregate database provides online access to a diverse collection of electronic resources including complete articles from over 16,000 newspapers, journals, magazines, and encyclopedias, as well as indexing for over 25,000 periodical titles in a wide variety of subject areas. NC LIVE also includes access to the WorldCat database for placing online interlibrary loan requests for material not held by CCLINC libraries in the OPAC.
The Literature Resource Center database is also available to any WCC Library patron with the proper password, both on-campus and remotely. This resource offers more than 650,000 full-text journal articles from more than 300 literary journals, as well as nearly 70,000 critical essays, more than 140,000 author biographies and nearly 5,000 links to authoritative related web sites.
Other research databases include the Bloom’s Literary Reference Online, Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry Online, Magill's, Magill’s Medical Guide, and Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center.
During hours that the library is open, any patron may call the Library Circulation Desk (919.735.5151, ext. 293) for help in searching any of the online catalogs or databases, or for aid in placing an online request for books or articles on interlibrary loan. Requests for reference assistance may also always be emailed to wcc-library@waynecc.edu.
Reserves
WCC Library patrons who are advised by an instructor to find items chosen by the instructor to read or view outside of class on Academic Reserve in the library should make sure to have the course name and number, the instructor’s name and the exact title of the book, article or audiovisual in hand before consulting the Reserve notebook kept at the Library Circulation desk.
Also, a current WCC Library card must be presented to check out or sign out any item on Reserve.
Most Reserve items must be viewed, read or photocopied in the WCC Library, though a few classes require some materials to be kept in multiple copies on Reserve so each student may have a copy to check out for an entire semester.
ECU/WCC Teacher Resource Center
The ECU/WCC Teacher Resource Center (TRC), providing resources to Wachovia Partnership East students, community college students, and teachers in the surrounding area of Wayne county, is located on the fourth floor of the Wayne Learning Center.
Materials available in the TRC include:
- State adopted textbooks, some sets with student and teacher editions, study guides, assessment guides, transparencies and sample activities.
- Praxis I and Praxis II study guides
- A television with VCR and headphones, convenient for previewing VHS and DVD recordings before checking them out
- DVD, VHS, and CD recordings useful for professional development and instruction in K-12 classrooms
- Educational games
- Magazines for teachers
- Children’s books, both fiction and non-fiction titles
- Instructional duplicating books for lesson planning
Patrons may access the TRC room by first asking for the room key and leaving their picture ID at the Library Circulation Desk until the key is returned.
Any patron registered with a WCC Library card may check out TRC materials at the Library Circulation Desk.
Checkout of Materials
All General Collection books are checked out for a 21-day period and may be renewed online by the patron in the OPAC or by phone request to the Library Circulation Desk, if they are not yet overdue, for an additional 21 days. Though overdue items may not be renewed, they may be checked out again, once they are returned to the Library Circulation Desk and the account cleared.
Students may view audiovisual items in the library using equipment in the Academic Skills Center.
Reference items may be used or photocopied only in the library.
Fines
Overdue fines are ten cents a day, except for items on three-day to seven-day checkout period, which accrue fines of twenty-five cents per day, and overnight checkout materials which accrue fines of ten cents per hour during the WCC Library hours of operation.
If either a WCC Library-owned item or an interlibrary loan item requested for a WCC Library patron is lost or seriously damaged, only the replacement cost of the item or damages fine assessed by the loaning institution is charged to the patron, with no overdue charges or extra handling charges added.
The replacement cost of an item that is overdue more than sixty days will be invoiced to the patron by mail, and a hold placed on any WCC student’s college account until the invoice is paid, or the item is returned in good condition.
No overdue charges are added to the replacement cost paid by a patron for a long overdue, presumed lost item. After the patron’s library account is cleared, college account holds are then removed immediately.
Printing
The library provides laser print copes and photocopies on any size paper for fifteen cents a page. However, most journal articles from the library databases may be emailed by the patron to their Campus Cruiser account and then opened in the Open Computer Lab to print free copies up to twenty pages.
Faxes
Library patrons may have a message faxed to the Library fax machine at 919.736.3204, but should call the Library Circulation Desk (919.735.5151, ext. 293) ahead of time to make arrangements, either for the fax to be sent to the patron by the WCC College internal mail system, or placed on the hold shelf for the patron to pick up in person.
Faxes may be sent from the Library fax machine free of charge if the item is college business, such as those sent out by Campus Voice staff to advertisers in the newsletter.
Faxes sent for any other personal purpose by any WCC faculty, staff, student, or other library community patron, such as requesting a transcript, or sending out a job application will cost $1.00 a page.
|
