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Show PACE 6 THE THUNDERBIRD THURSDAY MAY 7, 1987 Library serves students despite funding, space shortages Iknough SUSC's Library is behind the American Library Association standards, it does offer several services that students aren't aware of that will aid them in their quests for information. Beside books, a number of other educational resources can be found in the Library. Magazines, projectors, records, tapes, pictures, charts, models, and maps are among the vast array of services available to SUSC students. All it takes is the simple flash of an activity card and any one of these items can be obtained. The Library is open 81 hours a week during the from 7:30 school year with hours Monday-Thursda- y a.m. to 11 p.m , on Saturday from noon to 5 p.m., and on Sunday from 5 p m. to 10 p.m. The public service area of the Library performs data base searches, which allows students to have access to a great deal of information. The average cost for a search is $8, but the Library has administered searches for $50. The office has more than 200 data bases, and can search anything from psychological to zoological records. Arrangements for computer assisted research may be made at the circulation desk. Information for some types of research, particularly for upper division and graduate work, may be located through the use of a computer terminal which connects to the "Dialog" data bases in California. The data base system is owned by a company called Dialog, which in turn is owned by the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Often the resulting bibliography will contain entries from the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) microfiche. The Library has a complete set of this microfiche collection, containing hundreds of thousands of articles and books in reduced format, on the fourth level. If students need materials unavailable in the SUSC Library, they can borrow them from another library by contacting the interlibrary loan librarian in the catalog department. Copies of periodical articles can also be obtained through this service. y The Library has a computerized loan system with 3,000 colleges in its region. If students want to borrow. materials personally from another college or university library in Utah, all they have to do is show their SUSC student body or faculty card for permission. The borrowed items can be returned in person or inter-librar- they can be turned into the SUSC interlibrary loan librarian who will mail them back at no cost. The serials or periodicals room, located in room 305B, contains 568 publications such as magazines and newspapers that come out at regular intervals. The magazines are arranged alphabetically by title on the shelves. Information in magazines is located through the use of indexes such as The Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature. The loan period for magazines is two days. Room 302 contains computer terminals that connect to the main campus computers and has Apple computers available for use by college students, faculty and staff. The facilities are available 79 hours a week. The room is also available for group study in which conversation is permitted. The government documents are shelved in the reference area along the west wall and on the north side of the area. These are publications issued by the United States government. Most are practical materials aimed at consumers, teachers, business people, scientist, scholars, and anyone else who may need them. IMC offers variety of services he instructional media center is on the Library's second floor. The number of patrons using the to IMC jumped from 26,812 in 1984-8- 5 thus solidifying the fact 32,154 in 1985-86- , that utilization of the Library and it? resources are on the rise. SUSC's media services produced enough revenue in 1986 to cover expenses and aid in the payment of repairs of campus checkout equipment. The purpose of the IMC department is to furnish media support services and materials for the instructional activities of both faculty and students. The IMC: ; Will furnish media equipment to stuclents on a one day loan for use in i their classes. assist students in preparing visual "and audio materials for their classes. . Operates and maintains the independent study center where students may view projected materials, televised segments, and listen to prepared audio materials. - .jWill senior industrial technology, drafting and design major from Mendon, Utah, is one of many SUSC students who have to "pull up the floor and take a seat," in the Library. Rick Maurer, a Operates a copying and duplicating service. Has a collection of instructional media materials including films, filmstrips, slides, video tapes, disc and tape recordings, pictures, models, transparencies, etc. These are available for use by the students in their classes and in student teaching assignments. Furnishes typewriters for student use at 60 cents an hour. The number of copies has increased by 25 percent since the relocation of the copy machine from the Administration Building to the Library's main lobby which took place two years ago. A Venda Card machine was also purchased and attached to that copy machine. The Venda Card machine allows a person to purchase copies with either coins or a venda card. There are now two IBM Copier Is with Venda Card machines in the Library's main lobby and an IBM model 20 in the IMC. Learning center aids in preparation for students 9 fization nf the learning center by students is on the rise and user satisfaction still remains high. According to the 1985-8- 6 SUSC Library Annual Report, there were 1,362 students that took advantage of the peer tutoring available. This was an increase of 144 students as compared to the previous year. These students visited the learning center for tutoring a total of 2,969 times. The purpose of the learning center is to promote academic excellence and to facilitate students becoming independent learners. Located at the very bottom of the Library, some of its services include: Peer tutoring in all courses upon request. Specialists in math, reading, and writing. Workshops in study skills, speed reading, and reviews for graduate school entrance tests. Diagnosis and prescriptions for individual learning obstacles. Analysis of learning style preference. Free hand-out- s and learning materials in diverse subject areas. A listening lab for student use with tapes and records. Development classes in math, test-takin- g, reading, and writing. Testing services. The tutoring services are free regardless of how much they are used, and the tutors are students who have already had the classes. The tutoring is widely used by the students at SUSC. Each quarter about 100 students use the tutoring service. They hre 20 to 25 junior and senior students to tutor classes that those students have already taken. Some students will come in once or twice a quarter just to get help on their research papers, said Vik Brown, director of the learning center. Also at the center, which is open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., are handouts for student use. Some of these handouts are: test taking, basic skills, how to take notes, and how to study. The center has the facilities for students who need to view films or listen to tapes of classes, which are done on an individual basis. The Library's complete collection of audio-visusoftware was combined and moved to the learning center in September of 1985. This allowed for the whole collection to be housed in the same area which improved accessibility, effectiveness and security. The collection grew dramatically as a result of the one-tim- e acquisition al (CONTINUED ON PAGE 7) |