Media Center

David Kirk Media Center 459.4508

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The University Library Media Center is located in Room 0350 on the ground floor of the McHenry Library addition. We manage the Library's audio, video, and CD-ROM collections.

Items in the Media Center collection circulate only to UCSC faculty members. However, we provide individual workstations and small group rooms for students to use while working with the Media Center collection.

We maintain media reserves including videotapes, laserdiscs, DVDs, phonographic records, cassette tapes, CDs, music scores, music reserves on ERes, and music reserves on iTunes via AppleTV.

We reproduce select audio CDs in support of language instruction.

For more information about our services, please use the navigational tabs above.

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Reserve a room online!
You can reserve any of the rooms described below using our Meeting Room Booking System.

Six group viewing rooms
Rooms 0331, 0332, 0334, 0335, 0336, and 0338 support group video study for up to fouteen people. Please click on the link for each room for more information about installed equipment and room capacity.

Seven two-person group listening rooms
Rooms 0340, and 0342 support audio study using traditional stereo components.
Rooms 0339, 0341, 0343, 0344, and 0346 support study of music reserves resources via iTunes and AppleTV.

Keyboard room
Room 0333 has an M-Audio Prokeys 88 MIDI keyboard with weighted keys for music study and practice. It also has Sibelius 5 notation software.

Adaptive technology room
Room 0337 has hardware and software to assist students with disabilities.

Group study room
Room 0351 is a four person group study room. It has a table, chairs, dry erase board, and external LCD monitor with VGA connection.

Thirty open video workstations with 20" LCD HDTVs.
All have DVD players. Some have multi-region DVD players, VHS players, multi-format VHS players, and laserdisc players.

Twenty-two seat open computing laboratory
Macintosh and Windows workstations with Microsoft Office and other productivity applications. This lab has a flat-bed scanner and black & white and color printers.

Updated 11 September 2009

Contact fmc@library.ucsc.edu

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Services

Bookings 
Use our booking service to ensure that an item in our colletion is available for your use on a specific date. A booked item may not be checked out or renewed by another patron if the circulation period would overlap with booking dates. However, a booking is not a recall. If you book an item at the last minute and that item is already checked out, we cannot guarantee our ability to honor your booking. Also, bookings are first-come, first-served. If another instructor has booked an item on the day you need it before you book it, we will not be able to honor your booking request. For the most reliable results, we suggest that you place booking requets at least one week in advance of need.

To book an item, please email us at fmc@library.ucsc.edu with the subject line "Media booking" and provide the following information:

  1. Your name
  2. Contact information (phone number, alternate email)
  3. Call number(s) and title(s) of item(s)
  4. Date you wish to book the item(s)

Please note that booked items have the same lending period as other items in our collection. Booked items that are on reserves for another class may only cirulate for one day.

 

Reserves
Media Center staff manage reserves for items in the Media Center collection and for music scores in the McHenry Library stacks. To place an item on reserves, please send an email to fmc@library.ucsc.edu with the subject line "Media reserves" and provide the following information:

  1. Your name
  2. Contact information (phone number, alternate email)
  3. Class name
  4. Class number
  5. Call number(s) and title(s) of item(s)
  6. Duration of reserves status (items will be placed on reserves for the duration of the current quarter unless otherwise specified)

Reserves requests are processed in the order in which they are received. Please allow up to two working days to process reserves requests. During the first two weeks of each quarter, please allow up to four working days to process reserves requests.

Items on reserves may still be checked out by other faculty members but the checkout period is limited to twenty-four hours with no renewal.

Personal Reserves
The Media Center will accept instrutors' personal items for reserves under the following conditions:

  • Items must be in a format that the Media Center supports: DVD (any region), DVD-R, VHS (NTSC, PAL), VCD, Laserdisc, CD, audiocassette, phonographic record, print.
  • Items must be legitimate copies: no off-the-air recordings, dubs, or 'ripped' content.
  • Items must be free of Digital Rights Management (DRM) software.
  • The University Library is not responsible for lost or damaged personal items placed on reserves.

If you wish to place a personal item on reserves, please contact the Media Center at fmc@library.ucsc.edu or call 459.4508.

Reserves requests are processed in the order in which they are received. Please allow up to two working days to process reserves requests. During the first two weeks of each quarter, please allow up to four working days to process reserves requests.

Personal items on reserves may still be checked out by other faculty members but the checkout period is limited to twenty-four hours with no renewal.

Electronic Music Reserves
Zachary Watkins, the Media Center's Recording Technician, manages electronic music reserves in a variety of ways:

  • He creates custom compilation CDs for instructors and places those on reserves
  • He mounts instructor playlists into iTunes for student access in the Media Center
  • He uploads instuctor playlists onto our QuickTime Streaming Server and makes them available to students through our ERes electronic reserves system

Please contact Zachary at zwatkins@ucsc.edu or call 459.3398 for more information about our electronic music reserves programs.

Requests for electronic music reserves are processed in the order in which they are received. Turn-around time depends on the size and complexity of the project. If you wish to use electronic music reserves via ERes, please be aware that once Zachary completes his work, he hands the project off to the McHenry ERes manager.

N.B. The McHenry ERes manager cannot complete the process of adding course assets until he receives an ERes Course Page Request Form. Please complete this form at the same time you make your request for uploading playlists. This will guarantee you a more favorable position in the McHenry ERes work queue.

On-line Language Instruction
The Media Center support on-line language instruction for:

Language CD Duplication
The Media Center duplicates select foreign language audio CDs for a nominal charge.

CD-ROM/DVD-ROM Installation
The Media Center maintains computer applications and datasets on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM. Very few of these resources are pre-loaded onto our Media Center computers. Media Center staff will install CD-ROM/DVD-ROM resources as requested. Some resources may take up to one full working day to install.

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Loan Periods

Faculty, faculty proxies, and graduate students in select programs may check out non-reserve Media Center materials for seven days. These groups may take Media Center materials out of the library.

Please return Media Center items on time. Items returned late are subject to late charges in accordance with the University Library Lending Code. Please do not return items via campus or US Mail. Items are checked in on the date received by the Media Center and late fees will not be waived because of delivery delays.

Staff, students, and community members may check out Media Center materials for three hours. These groups are invited to use Media Center equipment and study rooms but may not take materials out of the Media Center.

Renewals

Checked out items may be renewed in person or by calling 459.4508. Media Center renewals may be limited or denied if an item has been requested for bookings or reserves.

Reserves

Faculty, faculty proxies, and graduate students in select programs may check out Media Center Reserves items for twenty-four hours. These items may not be renewed and are subject to the schedule of late fees for reserves items as described in the University Library Lending Code.

Students may check out Media Center Reserves items for three hours and may use Media Center study rooms and equipment. Students may not take reserves items out of the Media Center.

Patron Privacy Rights

The University Library is committed to protecting the privacy rights of all library users. We do not disclose the identity of any library user who has checked out an item needed by another library user.

On occasion, an instructor will attempt to check out a title from our collection for classroom use only to find that the title is already checked out. While we can never disclose the identity of the person who holds the item, we are happy to act as an intermediary and attempt to convey the instructor's need.

The best way to ensure that an item is available when you need it is to use our booking service.

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