TCNJ ALUMNI Request a borrowing card
Identification — TCNJ Alumni Card
Paying Library Users Request a borrowing card
Identification — R. Barbara Gitenstein Library Individual Membership card ($25.00/year) or R. Barbara Gitenstein Library Institutional Membership card ($75.00/year).
Students and staff of listed local colleges and universities of New Jersey State Library and the McGuire A.F.B. Request a borrowing card
Identification — R. Barbara Gitenstein Library Guest card issued upon presenting a valid home institution’s ID.
- Bucks County Community College
- Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst
- Kean University
- Mercer County Community College
- Montclair University
- New Jersey City University
- New Jersey Institute of Technology
- New Jersey State Library
- Ramapo College of New Jersey
- Rider University
- Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
- Rowan University
- Thomas Edison State College
- William Paterson University
Spouses and/or children over 12 years old of current TCNJ faculty and staff Request a borrowing card
Identification — R. Barbara Gitenstein Library Guest card.
Retired faculty and staff Request a borrowing card
Identification — R. Barbara Gitenstein ID card.
Spouses of retired faculty and staff Request a borrowing card
Identification — R. Barbara Gitenstein Library Guest card.
VALE participants (Faculty, students, and staff of participating VALE institutions) Request a borrowing card
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.
Teachers and staff of public school districts of Trenton, Lawrence, Ewing, and Hopewell or participants of the Professional Development School Network (PDSN) Request a borrowing card
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.