Paying Library Users
Identification — R. Barbara Gitenstein Library Individual Membership card ($25.00/year) or R. Barbara Gitenstein Library Institutional Membership card ($75.00/year). Request a borrowing card
Spouses and/or children over 12 years old of current TCNJ faculty and staff
Identification — R. Barbara Gitenstein Library Guest card. Request a borrowing card
Retired faculty and staff
Identification — R. Barbara Gitenstein ID card. Request a borrowing card
Spouses of retired faculty and staff
Identification — R. Barbara Gitenstein Library Guest card. Request a borrowing card
VALE participants (Faculty, students, and staff of participating VALE institutions)
Identification — R. Barbara Gitenstein Library Guest card issued upon presenting a valid home institution’s ID and a signed VALE Reciprocal Borrowing Application Form. See the VALE Reciprocal Borrowing Policy for a list of participating institutions and the required form.
Students and staff of listed local colleges and universities of New Jersey State Library and the McGuire A.F.B.
Identification — R. Barbara Gitenstein Library Guest card issued upon presenting a valid home institution’s ID. Request a borrowing card
- New Jersey Institute of Technology
- William Paterson University
- Montclair University
- Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
- Rowan University
- New Jersey City University
- Kean University
- Ramapo College of New Jersey
- Bucks County Community College
- Mercer County Community College
- Thomas Edison State College
- Rider University
- New Jersey State Library
- Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst
Teachers and staff of public school districts of Trenton, Lawrence, Ewing, and Hopewell or participants of the Professional Development School Network (PDSN)
Identification — R. Barbara Gitenstein Library Guest card issued upon presenting a valid home institution’s ID.
Courtesy Library users
Identification — R. Barbara Gitenstein Library Courtesy card issued with special permission from the Dean of the Library.
Contingent Employees. Request a borrowing card
To access Gitenstein’s print collection, have your hiring manager email access services at circ@tcnj.edu. We will then create a library account for the employee so they may check out books. They may also use our guest computers in the Reference Room to access electronic databases.
For us to create the account, we need the following information: home address and phone number, campus address and phone number, TCNJ email, employee ID (six digits), and expiration date.
After we create the record, the contingent employee must come to the library access services desk on the first floor at the entrance and present their TCNJ ID. That will have their library barcode on it and we will put that also in the system and she will be good to go. We cannot give off-site access to electronic resources like databases.