If you live away from the ECU campus, will be traveling within North Carolina, or need something in a rush, consider visiting one of ECU's partner libraries or one of ECU's 16 sister campuses within the University of North Carolina system to borrow materials from its libraries.
Eligibility
- All ECU students, faculty, and staff can directly borrow materials from any library with which Joyner Library has signed a cooperative borrowing agreement (see below).
- This service is particularly useful for Distance Education patrons, those home on break or travel, or those who need materials immediately and who are able to take a road trip.
- ECU students, faculty, and staff can also request items through interlibrary loan from any of these or other libraries. The cooperative agreements supplement interlibrary loan -- they don't replace it.
Cooperative Borrowing Institutions
- Joyner Library has signed agreements with the UNC system and some community colleges and private colleges. These agreements allows ECU students, faculty, and staff to borrow items directly from those libraries. To see what those libraries own and to read their library policies, visit their webpages.
- If you live near an institution that is not on the above list, please suggest that we ask that college by contacting Joyner Library's Circulation staff.
Discovering What Resources the Other Libraries Have
- To see want other libraries own, search ECU's WorldCat database. For UNC libraries, WorldCat will show if the item is checked-in and if it can be borrowed. For other libraries, you'll have to contact them directly for that information.
How to Check Items Out at Another UNC Library
- Materials can be checked out from UNC libraries with your current ECU OneCard or distance education ID card. If you do not have an ECU OneCard or ID card or if a library refuses to accept it, please ask that library to contact the Joyner Library Circulation Desk to verify your enrollment by calling 252-328-6518.
- The first time you check-out items from a library, you may be asked to complete a registration form and read through that library's circulation policy.
Checked Out Items
- Materials with a due date in the Location field in the catalog record will have a hold placed on them for you. You will be notified when the item has been returned, sometimes weeks to months later.
Material & Collection Restrictions
- Not all materials at other libraries will be available to lend to you. Each library determines how its own collections may be used.
Fees
- Each library sets its own prices for photocopying, late fees, lost item replacement costs, etc. Visit the library's webpage or ask at its Circulation desk if you have questions.
Due Dates & Returning Items
- Borrowed materials are due back to the owning library by that library's due date. Since each library sets its own due dates for materials, visit the library's webpage or ask at its Circulation desk if you have questions.
- You may return item to the library yourself or mail items back to the library at your expense.
- If you have 1-2 weeks until the due date, you may ask Joyner Library's Interlibrary Loan office to return the item for you. Please note, though, if we return the item late or if it is lost in the mail, you are still responsible for the overdue fines and replacement costs.
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