Library Library Services
Faculty/Staff and Students
Your TC3 Card is your library card. Full and part-time students can obtain their photo ID cards in the TC3 Card Office in Room 101.
Community Members
We welcome area residents. You can obtain a Community Borrower card by completing an application and providing proof of identification to library staff. If you are completing the application form off campus, we will contact you to verify your identification. Once confirmed, your card will be mailed to you and you will be able to borrow books and DVDs.
Course Reserves
Course reserves, primarily textbooks used for classes, are kept at the Service Desk.
- Reserve items may be used for up to 2 hours in the library. Fines for late Reserve materials are 25 cents an hour, per item.
- Students may request that chapters be scanned and sent by email. These files expire two hours after they are opened. More information about digitization requests.
Books
Students and staff may borrow books for the entire semester.
DVDs
DVDs not reserved for class use can be borrowed for up to three weeks.
Reminders
Students and staff will be reminded of their due dates in their TC3 email.
Overdue Items
We do not charge overdue fines for regular books or DVDs. However, you will be placed on the Library Stoplist if you fail to return materials you have borrowed. You will be sent an invoice charging you a nonrefundable $15.00 lost item processing fee for each item that you do not return.
You can be cleared from the Stoplist once you have returned what you've borrowed or once you've paid the lost item processing fees. It can take up to forty-eight hours to be cleared from the Stoplist.
See all your options to return books and DVDs.
Articles
Paper magazines, journals, and newspapers must be used in the library.
College Archives
The mission of the College Archives is to collect, identify, arrange, describe, and preserve records generated by the College, its faculty and staff, and to make them available for use.
The archives consist of administrative paperwork generated by various college departments from the College's beginnings in 1968 through 2016. It includes correspondence, meeting minutes and agendas, memos, course listings, yearbooks, news clippings, student handbooks, faculty directories, graduation materials, and student publications. It also includes photographs, videotapes and audiotapes of people and events, including interviews with key personnel.
Use the Finding Aids to locate archival material. Some materials have been digitized and are available online.
Patrons may visit the Archives by appointment during the Library's open hours, pending the availability of staff. Patrons visiting the Archives must be accompanied by a Library staff member at all times.
To arrange an appointment to visit, or for questions, contact the Library. In-depth and open-ended inquiries must be conducted on site by the researcher.
Archival materials do not circulate and cannot be taken outside of the Archives room. All materials from the collection must remain in the Archives at all times. Researchers are encouraged to photograph items of interest or to submit a duplication request form (see below).
Researchers are asked to maintain the order of materials accessed in the Archives. The Library staff provide bookmarks to use as placeholders to maintain the order of boxes and files. Researchers are asked to refrain from touching the surface of photographs and negatives, and cotton gloves are available if handling of photographs is required. All patrons are asked to handle materials with caution to ensure their long-term preservation. No eating or drinking is permitted in the Archives.
Patrons may request to have select items of interest digitized or photocopied by the Library staff. Digitization services are available at no cost, while the standard fee of $0.12 per page side will apply to photocopy requests. To request these services, a duplication request form must be filled out, stating the patron’s name and contact information, a complete inventory of the items including box number and file name, and the desired format/file format (if applicable). Duplication requests may take up to 2 weeks to be filled.
Reproduction of materials does not constitute a transfer copyright to researchers. Furthermore, it is solely the researcher’s obligation to satisfy copyright regulations when using materials found in the collection. When possible, Library staff can assist researchers in identifying the copyright holder for materials in the collection, though it is the responsibility of the researcher to secure permission to publish items from the collection. Requests to publish materials for which Tompkins Cortland Community College holds the copyright must be made in writing and submitted to the Library staff.
Documents from the holdings of the Tompkins Cortland Community College Archives may be digitized for online access to support non-profit educational and research uses.