Frequently Asked Questions

Anyone can use the library!

Our guest login for the computers is:
ID:              student
Password: student

To ask about checking out materials as a visitor, please call us at (920) 735-5653 or email us at library@fvtc.edu. 

We do allow covered food and drinks. However, please do not spill them on the computers! Be considerate and clean up after yourself. Thank you!

 indicates secured resource, available off-campus through proxy login.

Username is your MyFVTC IDnumber@fvtc.edu (EX: 123456789@fvtc.edu )
Password is your network MyFVTC password.

Library Subscriptions to Databases can be Accessed Off-Campus with Current MyFVTC Credentials. Off-campus access to and use of the content of our electronic databases is limited by contractual licenses to authorized FVTC associated faculty, staff, and students.

The guest / general public can access electronic resources on campus only.

All materials should be returned or renewed by the due date (or the recall due date).

Please return items to:

FVTC Library - Room G113
1825 North Bluemound Dr.
Appleton, WI 54912-2277

A: Library Services does encourage donations of useful materials, if they are new and relevant. Please contact the Library at 920-735-5653 to discuss the acceptability of the proposed donations before delivering them to the library.  Books that do not fit our needs will be sent to Better Book World to be sold as part of a cost recovery program.

A: You may make donations to the FVTC Library through the FVTC Foundation. The FVTC Foundation is a registered 501c3 and your donation is fully tax deductible. 

We will accept donations of book under the following circumstances:

• Books are in good condition
• You realize that if the books do not fit into our collection Development needs, they will be sent to Better Book World, or if too outdated, they will be recycled. (Better Book World sells the books for us and gives us a cut of the profit.)

If a book or other item is damaged, we accept replacements that are in good condition.  We do not want broken, coffee-stained, water wrinkled, dog-chewed or otherwise moldy or stinky books.  If you damage the book, please replace it (save us the throuble of ordering a new one and billing you!)

If you come to campus, you can drop the item off at the front desk if a staff member is present.  Please don't just put it on the desk.

If no staff is present, please put your item in the Item Return box!  Unless it will not fit...then call security and leave it with them.

If you are online or unable to bring the item, you can mail it to us.

The FVTC Library will send book to outreach sites.  Contact the main office of your site.  Fill out the Interlibrary Loan form, and put name of person working in main office of your site that will be recieving the book and returning it.  You can pick up and return item to that office.  

Use the FVTC Interlibrary Loan Request form to request items to be delivered to the FVTC Appleton Library, or Outreach Sites for pick up and return.

Please contact the outreach sites for their hours of operation.

Chilton Regional Center
(920) 849-4416

Clintonville Regional Center
(715) 823-1555

Oshkosh - Riverside Campus
(920) 233-9191

Oshkosh - S.J. Spanbauer Center
(920) 232-6037

Waupaca Regional Center
(715) 942-1700

Wautoma Regional Center
(920) 787- 3319

If a book or other item is damaged, we accept replacements that are in good condition.  We do not want broken, coffee-stained, water wrinkled, dog-chewed or otherwise moldy or stinky books.  If you damage the book, please replace it (save us the throuble of ordering a new one and billing you!)

If you come to campus, you can drop the item off at the front desk if a staff member is present.  Please don't just put it on the desk.

If no staff is present, please put your item in the Item Return box!  Unless it will not fit...then call security and leave it with them.

If you are online or unable to bring the item, you can mail it to us.