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An extended or distance user is defined as Virginia Tech students who are currently enrolled in classes (or thesis/dissertation credit) being offered at a remote site (e.g., Graduate Centers) or offered online and to faculty and staff working at a Virginia Tech remote site (e.g., Graduate Centers, Extension offices, ARECs, Equine Medical Center, etc.).  Additionally, students, faculty, and staff with mailing addresses outside the New River Valley counties of Montgomery, Giles, and Pulaski are considered extended campus users.

For more information, visit our extended users page.

• Visiting faculty: Privileges are extended to faculty from other institutions who are sponsored by a Virginia Tech faculty member and who have an official letter verifying the length of their stay. See Other Patrons tab for loan privileges.
• Retired faculty/staff: Retired Virginia Tech Faculty and Staff may keep the same borrowing privileges that they had when they were employed.
• Other Virginia faculty: Faculty at other Virginia colleges and universities may borrow from the University Libraries upon providing a current college identification card. See Other Patrons tab for loan privileges.
• Corporate Research Center staff: Staff from the Corporate Research Center may borrow materials upon providing a Hokie Passport to the University Libraries. See Other Patrons tab for loan privileges.
• Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine faculty/staff/students: Faculty, staff, and students may borrow materials upon presenting their EVVCOM Hokie Passport to University Libraries. See Other Patrons tab for loan privileges.
• Virginia residents: Privileges are extended to adults with a Virginia Driver's License or Virginia Identification Card and in-state address and phone number. Please note: Borrowing privileges may be extended to a minor with the permission of a parent or guardian. The appropriate form is available at the Circulation/Reserve Desk, Newman Library. See Other Patrons tab for loan privileges.
• Other Virginia college students: Upon providing a current identification card from another college or university in Virginia, public or private, a student may borrow from the University Libraries even if not a resident of Virginia. See Other Patrons tab for loan privileges.
• OCLC Reciprocal Faculty Borrowers: Faculty from OCLC reciprocol borrowing institutions with a reciprocal borrower's card and current ID from the member institution may borrow materials.
• Special students: Any group of younger students enrolled in enrichment-type courses at Virginia Tech. Examples include Governor's School students, Upward Bound students, etc. Group Coordinators should contact Brenda Pratt at 540-231-9209. See Other Patrons tab for loan privileges.

To return library materials during normal hours of operation, patrons may place books and media items in the return bins located at the Circulation/Reserve Desk on the second floor of Newman Library.  However, they are not considered "returned" until they have been processed by the staff.

There are three book return bins available on campus for your convenience:

• Just outside the 2nd floor library entrance on Alumni Mall 
• Torgersen Hall on Alumni Mall, nearest to Newman Library
• Visitor's map by the Inn at Virginia Tech on West Campus Drive

Located in front of the elevators in the study cafe area on the 1st floor of Newman Library.

Located at the Library entrance to the Torgersen Hall Bridge which is on the 4th floor of Newman Library.

You may return most library material to any VT library branch regardless of where you checked out the materials:Newman Library,Art + Architecture Library in Cowgill Hall, the Veterinary Medicine Library at the VetMed complex, and the Resource Center at the Northern Virginia Center in Falls Church, VA.  The exceptions are electronic equipment and reserve materials.

Mail: You may return library materials through the US Postal Service, UPS, FedEX, or Airborne to the following addresses.

• Through US Postal Service:
  University Libraries / Virginia Tech, Circulation Unit, P. O. Box 90001 Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
• Through UPS, FedEX, or Airborne Services:
  University Libraries / Virginia Tech, Circulation Unit, Newman Library, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0434