Library Access and Services for Distance Students

VIVA Cooperative Borrowing Program

Faculty, staff and currently enrolled students of Union Presbyterian Seminary have the privilege of borrowing items on-site from any participating Library in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

These libraries are members of VIVA, Virginia’s academic Library consortium. For more information about VIVA and its member libraries, visit their website at http://vivalib.org.

For further information about the VIVA Cooperative Borrowing program as well as a list of VIVA Member institutions and their status in this program, please visit the VIVA Cooperative Borrowing Program website. From the home page select Resource Sharing from the top menu and click Cooperative Borrowing from the dropdown menu. Participating institutions may lend to borrowers from non-participating institutions at their discretion.

Carolinas Theological Library Consortium

The Carolinas Theological Library Consortium (CTLC) was created to allow greater resource sharing among schools with theology and/or religion programs in the greater Charlotte, North Carolina area. It has grown over time to include institutions throughout North and South Carolina. Each school in the Consortium has agreed to abide by the following borrowing policies. Students are advised to have their current student identification with them to check out materials from another CTLC library.

• Circulating library materials may be borrowed by duly certified faculty, students, and staff of CTLC member schools and organizations from any CTLC member library in accordance with the borrowing regulations of the lending library.
• Borrowers are responsible for learning circulation and access regulations at the respective institution’s library. Borrowers agree to be governed by these regulations.
• Patrons need to borrow books in person. Libraries are not expected to answer telephone queries or provide materials by mail, except for inter-library loans requested through standard ILL request forms.
• Users of any CTLC library are subject to all fines, rules, and regulations of the servicing library. Patrons will be notified of overdue material by the library from which the library material was borrowed.

Atla Reciprocal Borrowing Program

The Atla Reciprocal Borrowing Program creates an arrangement between participating North American Atla Institutional Members to grant check-out privileges to each other’s patrons/students. A patron/student walks into a participating Library, shows proof of current enrollment at another participating Library, and checks out materials based on the Library's local lending policies.

For more information and for a spreadsheet of participating libraries, visit the ATLA Reciprocal Borrowing webpage at https://www.atla.com/learning-engagement/member-projects-and- programs/reciprocal-borrowing.

Map of ATLA Reciprocal Borrowing Program Participating Libraries