Library Card

Your Durham Tech Identification card will also serve as your library card.  ID cards are issued in the Security office, which is located in the rear annex of the White Building. Please present your ID to library staff. We will then barcode your ID card to give you a unique library patron number, and we also will put your contact information in our library database. Your contact information will be used to reach you about library concerns, such as books on hold or overdue notices. We value your privacy and will not disclose such information to any third party.

Loan Period

Books, music CDs, and audiotapes (books on tape) may be checked out for three weeks and renewed once for another three weeks. Renewals can be made online, in person, or by phone. Items that are overdue will not be allowed a renewal. Overdue items must be brought back to the library for 24 hours before being checked out again. Students may be notified of overdue items through notices in the US mail, by email, or by telephone. A student ID card must be presented to take books from the library.  Reference books, certain video recordings, and periodicals are for library use only.  If a circulating book is checked out, you may place it on “hold” by coming to the main desk with your ID card.

Reserve Materials

Materials placed on reserve by the faculty for class assignments are kept behind the library circulation desk.  These include books, articles, sample tests, videotapes, audio tapes, and compact discs.  They may be marked “library use only” or they may be borrowed for 48 hours or one week, depending on the wishes of the instructor.  Checked out videos on reserve will incur a late fee of $1.00 a day. This fine policy will be enforced to allow maximum access to reserve videos for the entire student population. Some current newspapers and magazines are also kept behind the library circulation desk.  For a location listing, check the Periodicals Holdings List.  An ID card must be presented to use materials kept behind the circulation desk.

Audiovisual Materials

Videotapes and DVDs are housed on the lower level of the library. Those with a blue bar on the spine label, located on the right side of the audiovisual shelves, circulate for one week and may be renewed once. Videos and DVDs on the left side of the audiovisual shelves, with no blue stickers, may only be checked out by faculty and staff. Students may view them on VCRs or DVD players in the library. Downstairs in the library there are VCRs in a few of the carrels to the left of the staircase and in rooms 515 and 516 (please note that these rooms are very small). Room 514 downstairs and room 513 upstairs are equipped so that small groups may view either videos or DVDs. Headphones are available in the computer lab downstairs. Please help us keep track of our audiovisual materials by checking them out at the circulation desk before viewing.

Three self-service photocopiers are available for use on the upper level.  Photocopies cost five cents per page, sash only.  Print-outs sent to the printers from the networked computers upstairs also cost five cents per page. After making all of your computer printouts, please pay for them by cash or check at the circulation desk. Durham Tech students printing from the computer lab downstairs may print up to ten pages per day for free. The cost for additional pages is five cents per page, payable at the circulation desk.

Study Rooms

There are study rooms for use by students who wish to study together.  Room 513 is on the upper level and room 514 is on the lower level.  Only faculty may reserve rooms for specific times of the day. 

Quiet Room

Room 508 on the upper level of the library is reserved for quiet study.  No group study or talking is allowed.  Also no children or cell phones are allowed in the quiet space.  There are individual study rooms within this room.