The Minhang Preservation Collection houses the library’s preservation copies, ECNU Theses and Dissertations, bound journals, and books in the old classification system.
I. Borrowing Rules
Type of Material | Borrowing Rules | Remarks |
General preservation books (excluding large multi-volume sets) | Available for loan for 14 days; renewable up to five times if there are no reservations. | Fragile or easily damaged books are not for loan. Masters’ theses and doctoral dissertations can be downloaded from library website andare not loaned unless specifically required. |
Other materials | In-library use only, to be returned on the same day. | |
II. Reservation and Request Procedures
All materials in the Minhang Preservation Collection must be requested in advance.
Type of Reservation | Method | Notes |
Online Reservation | Submit requests via the Library Catalog System (recommended) | Requests submitted before 13:30, Monday to Friday will be available for borrowing the same day at Minhang Campus; for Zhongbei Campus, they will be available on the next working day. |
Email Reservation | If online reservation is not workable, send an email to: bcb@library.ecnu.edu.cn |
Users may choose the pickup location when making a reservation. Once the status of the requested material shows “available for pickup” in My Library Account or a pickup notification is received, users may collect the material at the selected service point. For any questions, please contact the Circulation Desk on either campus.
III. Other Services
1.Readers who need to browse the Preservation Collection in person may contact the library to make an appointment. A staff member will accompany users into the stacks (bags are not allowed inside).
2.Users who would like to obtain a book list for a specific classification area within the Preservation Collection may request it from the staff.
E-mail: bcb@library.ecnu.edu.cn
East China Normal University Library
Formulated in October 2017
Revised in April 2021