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Collections Access During Renovation

Timeline

  • Phase 1, 5:00 pm Friday, December 13 to June 2026 – The Jackson tower will be closed and renovated. The older, brick part of the library will remain open and services will be operational.
  • Phase 2, approximately July 2026 to December 2027 – The newly renovated Jackson tower reopens. The older, brick part of the library will close for renovation. Library services and collections are available.
  • January 2028 – Renovation completed and Jackson Library fully reopens.
  • (dates are approximate and subject to change)

Access to collections

During phase 1, the print collection in the Jackson tower will be boxed and stored in off-campus warehouses. The collection will not be retrievable during that 18 month period. We expect books to return to the tower during Summer 2026. Suggested alternative ways to access books and journals during phase 1:

  • Electronic resources. We provide more than 1.4 million ebooks and 137,000 ejournals. Our e-resources are available 24 hours a day, both on and off campus.
  • Other library shelving locations and collections. The 100,000+ items in the Schiffman Music Library will remain available throughout the renovation project. Two hundred thousand books, journals, and other materials from the Jackson tower will be stored in our newly expanded on-campus remote storage facility and will be available upon request. The Special Collections and University Archives collections of over 125,000 items will also be available. Throughout phase 1 we will maintain a collection of up to 10,000 recently returned and newly purchased books. They will be available for browsing and checkout on the first floor of the library.
  • Local academic libraries. All UNCG faculty, staff, and students are eligible to borrow from the nearly 4.5 million items housed at fifteen Triad Academic Libraries.
  • Other North Carolina libraries. All UNCG faculty, staff, and students are eligible to borrow from a collection of over 20 million items located at UNC System Libraries on the seventeen campuses, and at many other regional libraries.
  • Interlibrary Loan. If you need a book or article that we don’t have, we can borrow it from another library.
  • Extended loan. If UNCG faculty anticipate that they will need a particular book, they can check it out and keep it until phase 1 is complete.

Other University Libraries collections changes

  • Jackson Library’s entertainment DVD collection will be unavailable from the Fall 2024 through the Spring 2026 semesters. A portion of the DVD Collection has been transferred to the Harold Schiffman Music Library.

Questions?

  • Overall collections, strategies, and policies. Contact Tim Bucknall.
  • Finding, accessing, or ordering materials to support your learning, research, or teaching needs. Contact the Liaison Librarian for your academic department.