The resources of the Van Houten Library at the New Jersey Institute of Technology primarily support the instructional and research needs of the NJIT community. The library is open to the public for research relating to the NJIT library’s unique science and technology collection. Individuals not affiliated with NJIT may be required to show an acceptable identification card. All library users must comply with NJIT library policies.

This is not an inclusive list of all library policies. Others may be found in the library's user's guide . Others will be added as they are made available.

• Borrowing of materials
• VALE reciprocal borrowing agreement (for faculty, staff, and graduate students to borrow books between NJ's VALE libraries)
• Faculty reciprocal borrowing
• Faculty overdue
• Privacy of information
• Code of conduct
• Computer use
• Computer use for library guests
• Exhibits
• Group study rooms
• Meeting rooms
• Electronic theses and dissertations (ETD)
• Rare book room
• Purchasing textbooks
• Purchasing videotapes and DVD's
• Interlibrary loan / document delivery services to other libraries
• Donations
• Wireless LAN cards