Library Resources for First Year Seminar Students

You can add money to your Seahawk Buck$ account on your OneCard at the "Value Transfer Station" machine near Circulation in the library or online at uncwonecard-sp.blackboard.com/eAccounts/. During business hours, Auxiliary Services can also accept money to be added to your account.

• Randall Library has a total of 14 iPrint stations. 
• On the first floor there are 12 iPrint stations, including 1 next to Port City Java Coffee Bar (all identified with an iPrint banner).
• There are 2 copiers which can be used with iPrint; these can be found in the Learning Commons.
• There is also a visitor iPrint station located near the visitor computers.
• On the second floor, you can find an iPrint station by the top of the front stairs and one in the Graduate Computer Lab.
• Please see the Randall Library floor maps for iPrint locations.

Laptop computers are available for check out at TAC (located on the first floor of Randall Library). You must provide your student ID to check out a laptop, and you must keep the laptop in the building.

They can be checked out for 6 hours. Visit our Computer Availability webpage to see if Dell laptops or MacBooks are available for checkout. For more information, please see https://uncw.teamdynamix.com/TDClient/KB/ArticleDet?ID=11558.

Connecting to Hawkwifi:

• View available networks on your device and select Hawkwifi.
• Enter your UNCW username and password.
• Accept security certificate, if prompted to do so.
• Domain is UNCW if prompted to enter it.

Connecting to SeahawkGuest:

• View available networks on your device and select SeahawkGuest.
• Open a browser, you will be redirected to the access agreement page.
  • If you are not automatically redirected, you can type 1.1.1.1 into the address bar and press enter to reach the agreement page.
• If you agree to abide by the listed conditions, click accept.
• Your connection will be active for 1 hour, bandwidth limited, and unable to access UNCW resources.
  • You will have to disconnect, reconnect and re-accept the agreement after the hour expires.

About Eduroam:

This secure network can be used by visiting faculty, staff and students if their educational institution is a participant. All UNCW faculty, staff and students can securely access the Internet from any other participating educational institution worldwide via the eduroam network.

See UNCW's ITSD "Connect to UNCW's Wireless Networks" webpage for more assistance.

You can print from any computer in the library through the campus iPrint system and pick up your print job from any iPrint printer on campus. For detailed instructions, please visit UNCW's How do I use iPrint page.

Randall Library generally does not purchase textbooks for UNCW classes, but the library does have some textbooks. In order to determine if your textbook is available in the Library, follow the steps on the Find Textbooks page.

For students, faculty, and staff at UNCW, there is no limit to the number of books you can check out from the General Collection. 

• Featured new books, DVDs, VHS tapes and CDs have a limit of 7 items checked out at one time, in any combination (for example, 4 DVDs and 3 CDs).
• Non-university borrowers may check out a total of 4 items from any part of the library's collection. The only exception to this is Government Documents; all users may check out an unlimited number of materials from Government Documents.

There are three ways to renew library items:

1. Log on to your library record, check the items to renew, click renew; or
2. Call the Circulation desk @ 910-962-3272; or
3. Contact us via chat or email.

 The following equipment is available to check out at TAC on the first floor of Randall Library:

• Laptop computers (Dell and Apple) – 6-hour checkout
• Laptop chargers (Dell and Apple)  –  6-hour checkout

For more information, please see https://uncw.teamdynamix.com/TDClient/KB/ArticleDet?ID=11558.

• Group study rooms are available for groups of two or more on the first and second floors of the library. See first floor map and second floor map for locations.
• They can be reserved online via our Group Study Room Reservations calendar.
• The rooms may be reserved and used by currently enrolled students, staff and faculty of UNCW.
• Reservations are for a maximum of two hours a day per group, and no more than 2 reservations per group per week.
• Reservations can be made up to 2 weeks in advance.
• View our Group Study Room Use and Reservation Policies page for more information.

• Log on to Blackboard Learn and access your course page. If you run into issues or have questions, please contact the TAC at 910-962-HELP (4357) or at tac@uncw.edu.
• Locate the title of the item that you need to access.
  • If the item is a PDF, open the item and read, save or print.
  • If the item is a link to the Library Catalog, clink on the link, note the call number and request the item by call number at the circulation desk.
  • If the item is a link to an article in a Library database, follow the link to the PDF, open the item to read, save or print (If off campus, you may be prompted to log in with your username and password).
  • For more information, please see the Course Reserves page.