GENERAL POLICIES

• You are allowed to eat and drink in the library, but we do not allow use of any tobacco products in the LRC.
• Please do not talk loudly, or disturb others who are studying.
• Please do not re-shelve books or magazines. We count those items for statistical purposes. Leave them on the reading tables and library staff will put them away.
• Please reserve use of the seminar rooms at the circulation desk. 

 COMPUTER ETIQUETTE

As librarians, we support the free and open access to information in all forms: print, video, digital, and electronic.  However, we are limited in the number of computer stations that we have in the library.  With more than 400 students coming through the library security gates daily during regular term, some rules and limitations on the use of our library computers are necessary.

• First priority is given to students who need to do research for class assignments.
• Limit your use of the e-mail function, and if you are using e-mail, always be prepared to relinquish access to a student who needs the station for library research.
• Tampering with computers is a crime. We will treat it as such.
• Please limit your use of a station to one hour, so that other students may use it.  This is especially important if all stations are being used and none are vacant.
• Computers with connectivity to the Internet are available in the College-wide Learning Lab next door to the Library, and you may use them to surf the Net or for word processing when classes are not in session.

COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT

Whether you are a student, faculty, staff or administration, or a patron from the community, your suggestions are very important to us in the building of our collection.  We give extremely high priority to instructor requests, because they are the ones who use Learning Resources to assist them in teaching their classes, and they are the ones who give research assignments requiring students to use the library.  We involve faculty formally in collection development each year through surveys and through coordination with department heads.  However, everyone who uses our library has a voice in the development of our collection, and no request is tossed aside without consideration.  We listen to what you say, we read what you write on your library evaluation forms, and we use that information to prioritize and select new materials for the LRC as funds are available.  We also report to the Learning Resources Committee, a standing committee of the college composed of students, faculty, and staff, and we keep them apprised as to how we are doing in terms of being responsive to our users and in meeting our goals.  Our collection development plan is outlined in the college policies and procedures manual, and is available for your review in the library.  A detailed version can be found in the LRC Internal Operations Manual.

Copies of the LRC materials request form are available in the library (ask for any of these items at the circulation desk) and online  by clicking here. You may turn in a request in any format, just please include all the information that you have available on the title.  If you know the publisher, or the price, or the author, or especially the ISBN (International Standard Book Number), please include that information on your request.

Gifts and Volunteers

The library welcomes gifts of books and other library materials that fit the needs and requirements of the collection.  The library is under no obligation to accept or keep all materials that are donated.  However, useful additions to the collection are always welcomed.  Letters of acknowledgement are available.  Tax laws allow us to indicate the number of volumes that you have donated, but we may not assign a value.

We actively seek volunteers who wish to assist in the library.  Volunteer work might include shelf reading, shelving of books, and assistance at the circulation desk.  Of course our dream volunteers would be wise in the ways of computer networks and Internet surfing, and willing to assist students in their online research.  If you are interested in helping out and being a part of our library team, please call Jim Morris at 386-754-4337 or at leporev@lakecitycc.edu and it will be our pleasure to discuss our volunteer needs.

MISCELLANEA

• Framed pictures are available for student checkout.  This does not include the LRC collection of original art, which is numbered and kept in the library for study and examination by art and humanities classes.  It does include all reproductions, located mostly along the south wall of the mezzanine.  Other reproductions are in storage.  You may view them by asking the librarian to assist you.
• Atlases are located in seminar room 2, at the rear of the main reading room.
• There are two coin-operated copiers in the library.  One is located in the reference section and the other is located near the pit area.

• Video players and monitors are located in the southwest corner of the mezzanine, and in seminar rooms 1 and 2.  Microform reader/printers are located at the rear of the main reading room, near the stair well.