Faculty Users

Library Cards

All WCC faculty and staff members, whether part-time or full-time, must have a WCC picture ID made by the Student Affairs Office to which the Library barcode may be affixed.

All WCC faculty and students are encouraged to apply for either a new or an updated Erwin Library card online using the fillable PDF library registration form with several options for submitting it and receiving the WCC Library barcode sticker to affix to the back of a WCC ID card.  Complete instructions are available on the Library Card Application page of this website.

A third party may present another Erwin Library patron’s card to check out materials for the absent patron, including audiovisual items for faculty, but the patron whose card is used will have full responsibility for the good condition and return or replacement cost of the items.

Computers

Since campus-wide restrictions in place for access to certain social networking or gaming websites restrict some uses of the Erwin Library student computer workstations, faculty who wish students to access such sites for a homework assignment may contact the Open Computer Lab in Magnolia Building (919.739.7032, or ext. 7032 on-campus), clear the assignment in advance with the head of the Lab, and afterwards send their students to that lab to complete such an assignment under supervision of the Open Computer Lab staff.

Wireless Access

Wireless internet access is freely available to all Erwin Library users and college visitors with no special login required.

Information Literacy Sessions

The Instructional Services Librarian conducts library tours and information literacy training sessions in the Erwin Library Classroom by appointment.

In these sessions, students receive hands-on instruction for searching the Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC), all research databases to which the Erwin Library subscribes, as well as relevant authoritative internet and paper resources.

Faculty may request subject-specific sessions for their classes, such as searching literary resources for English classes, or medical resources for Allied Health classes.

Appointments for tours or information literacy sessions may be made in person, by telephone, email, or online, but should be confirmed at least a week in advance to ensure availability of the Library Classroom at the requested time slot.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL)

Full Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service is available free to any faculty member with a current Erwin Library card, and material may be picked up at the Erwin Library Circulation desk by a third party presenting the requestor’s library card. No ILL item may be placed on Academic Reserve. 

Most articles can also be scanned and emailed as PDF attachments, so please provide an email address in the ILL request form.

Online Databases

The Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) may be searched remotely from any computer that has Internet access, though holds may be placed only with an Erwin Library card barcode. This barcode also provides login access to all research databases and the patron’s account in the OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) to renew checked out items before they are overdue, or to place an interlibrary hold on an item held by another CCLINC library.

Erwin Library users will now find a group of tabs on the homepage providing a portal to all options now available through WCC Single Search for making the most of the library's ever-expaniding collection of electronic, as well as print, resources.  Accessible through the WCC Single Search aggregate database are over thirteen thousand video-recordings, as well as thousands of electronic books, articles and images from eighteen research databases in addition to those subscribed to through NC LIVE.

Video Streaming

For faculty who wish to add a video link from the digital video resources to which the Erwin Library subscribes, to a Moodle course page so students taking a course may view the video through the course page, the tutorial Adding Video URLs to Moodle will be very helpful.

Reserves

By contacting the Instructional Services Librarian in person or by email (wcc-library@waynecc.edu), WCC Faculty may place either Erwin Library-owned materials or their own research materials on Academic Reserve in the Erwin Library. The library requires at least three business days in advance to process a request to set up a reserve for a class, or to add on or remove items from a reserve list.

Books may be set up with a 2-hour in-house, one-day, or 1-week checkout period. Audiovisual items placed on reserve may only be viewed in-house in Academic Skills.

Faculty may request that sign-out sheets be mailed to them showing that their students have accessed certain materials placed on reserve. All Academic Reserve master lists and sign-out sheets are maintained in a single Reserve Notebook at the Library Circulation Desk.

Purchase of Materials

Faculty may suggest materials be purchased for the Library Collections by contacting the Instructional Services Librarian in person, by phone (919.739.6763, or ext. 6763 on-campus) or by email at wcc-library@waynecc.edu, who will verify bibliographic information for the title(s) and direct the suggestion to the Director of Library Services.

Please include personal contact information if you wish to be updated about the status of the request, and you will be notified promptly.

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 Erwin Library Circulation Desk, if the books 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.

Audiovisual materials circulate to WCC faculty for a seven-day period only, with a limit of three titles (a multi-volume set may be considered a single title) on a single library account at any one time.

Faculty may then take an audiovisual they have checked out of the library to the Educational Support Technology Department (Media) in WLC 306 to have an educational copy made, paying only fifty cents for each DVD disc required for the copy. When a faculty member returns the original copy of the audiovisual back to the library to shelve as a master copy, the new educational copy is thereafter the personal property of the faculty member and does not need to be inventoried by the library.

If a student wishes to check out an audiovisual item for a class presentation, a faculty member must check the item out for the student on the faculty member’s library account and be responsible for the return of the item to the library.

Reference items may be used or photocopied only in the library.

Fines

Though faculty are not charged overdue fees, they are responsible for the cost of replacement of lost items either owned by the Erwin Library or items borrowed for the faculty member on ILL.

Library Card Application
Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC)
WorldCat (for ILL)