• ECC students, faculty, staff, and alumni with valid ECC College identification
• Reciprocal Borrowing Library (ReBL) card holders
• Rutgers (Newark), NJIT, UMDNJ (Newark) faculty, staff, and students with valid college identification

The standard borrowing period for most materials is 28 days. Materials can be renewed one time for an additional 28 days.

ECC faculty and staff may borrow materials for one semester/term at a time.

Periodicals and reference materials can be used in the library, but general circulation of those materials is not allowed.

Reserve items are set aside for a specific purpose – usually by a professor for students of a particular class. These items are kept at the Circulation Desk.

Use the “Reserve List” function in ECCopac to identify items by either the professor’s name or the course number.

Three Reserve items may be charged out at one time. Reserve items circulate for two hours and and cannot be removed from the library unless otherwise specified.

Valid identification or driver’s license must be left at the Circulation Desk until the items are returned. The fine for overdue Reserve items is $.50 per hour per item.

Audiovisual materials circulate under the same terms as Reserve items, and cannot be taken outside of the library, unless by ECC faculty and staff. Valid identification is required for borrowing materials.

ECC faculty and staff may borrow audiovisual material for up to 7 days with no renewals. Fines are $.50 per day per item.

If checked-out materials are not returned or renewed by the end of the borrowing period, students and patrons will be charged $0.10 per book for each day the Library is open. ECC faculty and staff are charged $0.50 per book per day.

Two overdue notices will be sent. If the books are not returned after one month, library privileges will be suspended, and the patron will be sent an invoice for the replacement cost of the book.

Students are subject to a library hold being placed against their academic records.

Occasionally, a checked-out book can be recalled by the library before the full borrowing period has ended.

All books are subject to recall after 14 days.