Student Guidelines:
(to download a pdf copy of these guidelines, click here)

• VIEWING ROOMS: Viewing rooms and materials are available during the posted hours that Media Services is open, not the hours that the library is open.
  
  • NO FOOD OR DRINK
    If anyone is observed with food or drink other than water in the viewing rooms, you will be asked to leave.
    
    
  • NO CELL PHONES
    Please turn off cell phones and pagers while in the viewing rooms. If you forget and receive a call, immediately ask to return that call at a more convenient time. If you continue to talk, you will be asked to leave.
    
    
  • WEAR HEADPHONES
    The viewing rooms are not soundproof. Please remember to plug in your headphones. If you need assistance, ask a member of the staff to show you how.
    
    
  • VISITING
    Talking is disruptive to other students. If you need to talk, please book a library study room instead. Do not have your friends come to the viewing rooms. Please go outside if you need to talk to your friends. If you are gone for more than five minutes, your items will be removed, and you will lose your place.
    
    
  • VIEWING MATERIALS
    Viewing stations are available for viewing Media Services materials or materials that have been placed on reserve by faculty. If you bring in your own material, you must show proof that it is for a class assignment. You need a Mt. SAC student I.D. with a sticker for the current semester for viewing videos, DVDs, laser disks, or listening to CDs in the viewing rooms. If you need a video for a presentation, your professor must check out the video for you to use in class.
    
    
  • LEAVING PERSONAL ITEMS IN VIEWING ROOMS
    Media Services cannot be responsible for any personal items left behind in viewing rooms. Your items will be removed if you are gone for more than five minutes.
    
    
  • CHECK-OUT PERIODS
    During peak usage periods, there is a two-hour limit or the length of a feature film that is assigned by faculty for the viewing stations and materials. Although all our materials, except for CDROMs, are available for in-house student viewing and listening, students with assignments have first priority. Viewing stations and materials must be renewed every two hours or the length of a feature film. You are billed $1.00 per hour, starting with the first minute it is overdue, for overdue materials. Remember to check back with the Media Services front desk to avoid charges.

• GROUP STUDY
  There is a limit of one student per viewing station in the viewing rooms. If there is more than one student who wishes to view a video, a library study room with a VCR or DVD and TV must first be checked out from the Check Out Desk (Circulation Desk). A current Mt. SAC student I.D. must be left at the Media Services front desk and will be returned when the video is returned. The only form of identification that will be accepted is a Mt. SAC student I.D with the current semester sticker.
  
  
• CHECKING OUT MATERIALS FOR HOME VIEWING
  Only math videos that accompany math textbooks, The 4 Motifs, Electronic Design Experimenters, Redshift and Anatomy CDROMS, Child 10 Observation, and Child 10 Interview videos, are available for student check out for home use. All other materials must be viewed in either the Media Services viewing rooms or the library study rooms. You must show a Mt. SAC student I.D. with a sticker for the current semester before checking out or viewing any of our materials. No other form of identification is accepted! All fines must be paid before viewing materials
  
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• RETURNING MATERIALS
  Media materials may be returned to the book drop that is located outside on the wall next to the entrance doors to the library. A drive-up book drop is located behind the Information Booth near the main College entrance off Grand Avenue. Materials may be placed in these book drops 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and during school breaks. They are emptied daily. Overdue materials may be returned to the Media Services front desk during regular hours if you wish to pay the overdue fine at the time of return. If you need to check out other materials, you must have paid the overdue video fine first and be cleared. Videos and CDROMS not returned on time will be fined $1.00 a day per item.
  
  
• PLACING MATERIALS ON RESERVE
  During peak times, we can reserve various titles for you. If you are more than ten minutes late for your appointed time and there are others waiting, we cannot hold the material or viewing station for you.
  
  
• LOST OR DAMAGED VIDEOS/CDROMs
  You will be charged $35.00 for most lost or damaged videos or CDROMS plus a $10.00 processing fee. Anatomy Histology CDROMS cost $20.00 if lost or damaged which includes the processing fee.
  
  
• AUDIO VISUAL EQUIPMENT
  Students may not check out any cameras or reserve any equipment for clubs, classroom, or private use. If a club needs equipment, it must be requested by a faculty advisor. If you need equipment in a classroom for a presentation, your professor must book the equipment. Please let your professor know of your needs as soon as possible. All requests must be in our office BEFORE 10:00 a.m. of the working day prior to the requested date. For example, Monday equipment requests must be submitted before 10:00 a.m. on the previous Friday. Please give your professor enough time to order equipment for you.
  
  
• ELECTRONIC DESIGN EXPERIMENTER
  Students taking certain classes in electronics may checkout electronic design experimenters. These are checked out for 30 days and must be returned to the Media Services front desk. Please return them on or before the due date. You will be charged $2.00 each day they are overdue. Any student that loses or damages an electronic design experimenter will be charged a $200.00 replacement fee.