Randolph-Macon College is now participating in the VIVA Cooperative Borrowing Program, which allows our faculty, students, and staff to travel to participating Virginia college and university libraries and borrow materials directly from them. Some participating institutions include Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Richmond, the College of William & Mary, Washington and Lee University, and the University of Virginia. The complete list is available at the VIVA website.
When members of the R-MC community travel to any of these institutions, they will need to verify your affiliation to the college by looking you up in a faculty/staff directory, or asking you to login to MyMaconWeb. Then you will need to follow their guidelines for borrowing, which determine how many items you can check out concurrently and how long you can keep them. Each institution provides its borrowing guidelines on the website above. Items you borrow should be returned directly to the library from which you borrowed them.
Participation in this program expands access that faculty have had through the Richmond Academic Library Consortium (RALC), and makes getting materials from other libraries significantly easier for students and staff.