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COLLEGE LIBRARY Library Locations: The Claude and Louise Rosenberg Library/Learning Resource Center is located in the southeastern part of the Phelan Campus. The collection contains 90,000 volumes and subscriptions and over 650 periodicals. Many back-runs of periodicals are maintained on over 7,500 reels of microfilm. An extensive reference and pamphlet collection is also maintained. Copy machines, microform readers, and reader printers are provided for student use. An information brochure regarding use of the Library is available in the Circulation and Reference Departments. The Alice Statler Library is in the lower level of Statler Wing, next to Smith Hall. It provides access to books, periodicals, pamphlets, videos, software and CD-ROMs about the hospitality industry. The Downtown Campus Library is on the second floor at 800 Mission Street in downtown San Francisco. It houses a book collection with a focus on business and careers, ESL, hospitality, and computer science. A media lab is located in the library where students can view the library collection of instructional videos or listen to spoken ESL materials on cassette and compact disc players. The Library also contains a computer lab with both PC and Macintosh computers connected to the Internet. Current student ID is required for use of both the media and computer labs. The John Adams Campus Library is located at the School of Health and Physical Education, 1860 Hayes Street, Room 204. The collection is strong in literature, African-American studies, health sciences, ESL materials, and Transitional Studies materials. The Josephine Cole Library (Southeast Campus) is located on the fifth floor level at 1800 Oakdale Avenue. This collection has an up to-date core reference section, as well as a strong emphasis in African American studies, ESL, basic education and allied health. There are computers and copy machines available for student use. The Media Center, located at Rosenberg in the Library/Learning Resource Center (LLRC), is a collection of non-print materials covering a wide range of subjects. Students use the Media Center to listen to or view materials developed or suggested by their instructors. The Language Laboratory is located in the Rosenberg LLRC. It provides audio-active and videocassette stations where students of foreign languages reinforce and perfect their speaking and aural comprehension skills. Orientation is required of all students using the laboratory. A current CCSF Student I.D. card is required. The Learning Assistance Center and its associated programs assist students in learning their course material, enabling them to become efficient, independent learners. These programs are located in the Rosenberg Library, Room 207. The six programs are:
LEARNING COMMUNITIES Learning Communities is a program designed to link two or more courses together so that students have opportunities for deeper understanding and integration of the material they are learning, and more interaction with one another and their teachers as fellow participants in learning. Faculties from different subject areas work together to connect their courses and unify the material under a central theme. SERVICE
LEARNING-VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES ADDITIONAL LEARNING RESOURCES The Transitional Studies Adult Learning and Tutorial Center at 31 Gough Street, Room 29, offers free, one-to-one tutorial services, as well as classes, both days and evenings. The Center focuses on adult literacy education and preparation for the GED test. The Center's tutoring service can begin at any time. The GED pre-test, reading, and mathematics diagnostic tests are available Monday through Thursday on a drop-in basis. Subjects in which students may be tutored include: GED Preparation; beginning reading and arithmetic (for non-readers to the 4th grade level); preparation for vocational training entrance tests; preparation for employment and civil service test; brush-up reading comprehension, grammar, and mathematics. The Center is open Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Telephone: 241-2300. The Biology Auto-Tutorial Laboratory, located in Room 307, Science Hall, contains a collection of self-instructional audio-visual materials for the Biological Sciences. Materials can be used in coordination with specific courses or as supplementary materials. Instructors and qualified student aides who guide in the use of the self-instructional materials help staff the laboratory. Hours of operation are posted at the laboratory. The Disabled Students Programs and Services High Tech Center (HTC) is a computer laboratory designed for students with physical and/or cognitive disabilities. The HTC offers a non-credit course introducing adaptive computer equipment and software for development of vocational, academic, and daily living skills. HTC's are located in Room 231 of Batmale Hall and on the John Adams Campus. They are open Monday through Friday. The Disabled Students Programs and Services Strategy Laboratory provides facilities for classes with small group instruction on learning intervention strategies. These classes (Diagnostic Learning O and M) are designed for students with disabilities. Trained instructional aides assist students in applying learning techniques as they work on classroom assignments. The laboratory is in Room 231, Batmale Hall. Hours are scheduled at the time of enrollment. Instructional Computing Laboratories. The Instructional Computing Laboratory, located in Room 301, Batmale Hall, provides access to computer hardware for City College students. CRT's and printing terminals connect to the District's mainframe computers, and three HP 9000 series. IBM-PC microcomputers are also available, connected by a VELAN network. The Instructional Computing Laboratory located in Room 8, Science Hall, contains Apple Ile and IBM PC microcomputers connected to a Corvus hard disk system. This facility is primarily intended as a work area for applications, rather than support for learning computer languages. The Mathematics Laboratory, located on the third floor of Batmale Hall, offers two distinct services. One area of the center, the Math Workshop, Room 302B, Batmale Hall, offers drop-in tutoring in arithmetic, elementary algebra, and geometry. The main area of the Laboratory, Room 302, houses an individualized arithmetic program. Students are tested when they enter, study only the topics where they show weakness and earn credit when they have completed the course work. The Nursing Skills Laboratory, located in Cloud 343, is a supervised open laboratory where nursing students may complete and/or reinforce their course work. The Laboratory provides a large collection of books, periodicals, pamphlets and an Audio-Visual Reference Center with 20 learning carrels. A registered nurse serves as a resource person for nursing students to answer questions, direct independent studies, and give workshops on skill procedures. The Speech Lab is located on the third floor, Room 321, in Batmale Hall on the Phelan Campus. It offers one-to-one tutorial services by faculty members for students enrolled in interpersonal, group, and public speaking speech courses. Students can receive assistance on speech outlines, organizational strategies, visual aids, delivery and research methods. Videotaping is available. |