(1)
THE RCCD LIBRARY

DLLRC
(City Campus)

• Square feet = ~85,000
• Computers = 200
• Seating = ~600
• Study Rooms = 12

MANY RESOURCES AND SERVICES
FOR YOU & YOUR SUCCESS AT RCCD!

• Information Resources – Via LAMP!
  • Books & Videos
    • Approximately 130,000 titles
    • Plus other audio-visual items and some computer software
  • Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers
    • 4300+ titles online; 600+ titles hardcopy
  • Electronic Resources
    • 18 periodical indexes; 29 Reference Resources
  • Web Sites
    • Via "Web Subject Directories" for Web sites reviewed and recommended by experts
• Information Services – Via Library Faculty & Staff!
  • At the CIRCULATON Desk (2^nd Floor, East Wing):
    • Check out books
    • Check out RESERVE books/other materials
    • Check out laptops for use anywhere in the library
    • Check out the study rooms on the 3^rd Floor
  • At the INFORMATION Desk (2^nd Floor, West Wing):
    • Ask help for making best use of the library and finding information
    • For both your RCCD course assignments any other information need or interest you may have

Find us at the INFORMATION [Reference] DESK

• DLLRC, 2nd Floor, West Wing
• We're available any hour the DLLRC is open:
  • Mon-THU, 7:30am-9pm
  • FRI, 7:30am-4pm
  • SAT, Noon-4pm

(3) LAMP

"Lights Our Way
To Success!"

• ON CAMPUS: From any computer connected to the Internet that's available for student, staff, or faculty use - for example, in the DLLRC:
  • The 200 computers in the COMPUTER COMMONS, 2nd Floor, East Wing
  • From computers elsewhere in the DLLRC - 2nd Floor, West Wing and 3rd Floor at the top of the stairs and to the left
• OFF CAMPUS: From your home or any place else - 24 hour a day, 7 days a week - using computers connected to the Internet
  • NOTE: When using LAMP from OFF CAMPUS to access our many ELECTRONIC RESOURCES - since we subscribe to these, you must "authenticate" or "validate" that you're officially affiliated with RCCD (as a student, staff, or faculty member). Here's how:
  • From LAMP's Electronic Resources - Periodical Indexes, E-Journals, or Reference Resources - click on the resource you want.
  • A small window appears asking for an ID and Password
    • Your ID = your 7-digit student, staff, or faculty ID number
    • Your PASSWORD (typed all in lower case, one character string) = the first letter of your first name and up to six letters of your last name (if you last name has six letters or less, type your entire last name

• Get yours at the Circulation Desk (2nd Floor, East Wing)
• So you can check out:
  • Books to take home
  • Laptops for use anywhere in the DLLRC
  • The study rooms on the 3rd Floor, West & East Wings
  • And more ...
• NOTE: Use the 14-digit number on the back of your library card to activate ...
  • Via the "Cybrarian" log-in system Any of the of the 200 computers in the Computer Commons - DLLRC 2^nd Floor, East Wing
  • Or the 4 computers on the west side of the computer tables near the Information (Reference) Desk -2nd Floor, West Wing

(5) YOUR RCCD
PRINT/COPY CARD

• Buy yours with a $1 bill from vending machines in the Photocopy Centers (2^nd & 3^rd Floors, West Wing)
  • NOTE: The first $0.50 of this $1 is for the card itself, leaving you $.50 worth of copies on the card; keep the card like a credit card to add value to it, and when doing so you get full value for each $1 (or more) that you add to the card.)
• Use these cards:
  • In the Photocopy Centers to use the copy machines.
  • From the Print Center (2^nd Floor, West Wing) to release whatever you’ve printed from the library computers

• BE INFORMATION COMPETENT
• FIVE BASIC INFORMATION SOURCES