Study Rooms & Classrooms

Study Rooms

• Study rooms may be scheduled for the following uses:
• Small group study and discussion
• Use of media equipment not available in the Library Media Viewing Area
• Presentation, speech, and sign language practice
• Instructor/student, faculty, and staff meetings
• Exceptions to the uses described above must be approved by a Librarian, a Library Supervisor or the Library Dean.
• Individuals who desire a silent study environment may use a study room if it is not scheduled.
• Eating, drinking, and loud discussion are prohibited in the study rooms. Users are required to clean up the room and return equipment.
• The library staff is not responsible for personal items left unattended in group study rooms.

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Scheduling Study Rooms

• Students, faculty, and staff may schedule study rooms through Media Services. A Seattle Community College District ID card is required.
• Rooms may be scheduled up to three days in advance.
• Reservations are limited to one 2- hour block per day. Additional hours may be permitted with approval by a Librarian, a Library Supervisor or the Library Dean.
• The reservation for a study room is nullified if the group does not show up within fifteen (15) minutes of the reservation.

Classrooms

The Library has two classrooms available: Classroom A and Classroom T (Library Instruction Lab). First priority is for library instruction sessions, followed by other instructional uses. Exceptions to these guidelines may be made with approval from the Dean of Instructional Resource Services.

Classes visiting the library—whether or not they need a classroom—should notify the reference desk to avoid over-booking the library and to ensure that adequate reference staff is available.

For details on scheduling workshops, see Workshop Scheduling Procedures

Library classrooms A and T are locked to protect equipment when they are not in use.

Classroom T offers 17 computers with Internet access and one instructor station with a computer projector. These computers offer Internet access only; they are not connected to the student or administrative networks. The lab has a capacity of 25 people.

Room A offers one instructor station with a computer projector. This computer is connected to the administrative network. Room A has a capacity of 35-40 people.

Scheduling Classrooms for Library Instruction

Credit classes offered by the library and library workshops requested by faculty have first priority. Faculty may use these rooms to teach research strategies and techniques with or without the assistance of a librarian. Groups of students doing research together may use the classrooms on a walk-in space-available basis.

Classrooms may be scheduled through Reference staff in person, by phone, or by email. Sessions are confirmed only when the time, date, room, and instructor (if applicable) have been assigned and recorded on the schedule.

Follow-up sessions are limited to two per class, for a total of three sessions per quarter.

 

Scheduling for Non-Research Uses

This service may not replace regular classroom assignments; requests for multiple reservations from the same class will be referred to the Dean of Instructional Resource Services.

Non-library faculty and other College programs may schedule the classrooms for non-research sessions on a space available basis up to seven days in advance, but library classrooms cannot be scheduled as a regular meeting place for a non-library class.

Library Classroom A may be scheduled for classes in need of media equipment that cannot be provided in their regularly assigned classrooms. Classes that need such accommodation on a regular basis (i.e., more than 3 times per quarter) are advised to request campus classroom assignments where media equipment is deliverable. Such requests should be made through divisions during the class scheduling process.

The reference desk should be notified of cancellation as early as possible to make the room available to other users.

Students may reserve classrooms on a space available basis on the day of use. Groups may reserve rooms only if they are too large for group study rooms, or if study rooms are already booked.

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