Northwest College

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Library Services

Reserving a Room or Multimedia Equipment

Students, faculty, staff, and the community may reserve library rooms and equipment by contacting the library.

  • Class instruction and NWC programs/meetings take precedence.
  • When reserving a room, please include your name, phone number, purpose/organization, and date/time.
  • Wireless access is available throughout the library building. Only registered NWC students have wireless access for their own personal laptops. Other library users may checkout a wireless PC for in-library use at the front desk.

Rooms or areas that may be reserved

  • Amphitheater (seats 80 and is located in the library lobby)
  • Taggart Room (living room furniture & chairs to seat 10 to 20). Restriction - Absolutely no food or drink, including water, is allowed.
  • Seminar Room (Collaboration table that seats 6. Six computer plugins to share on two screens. Also, meeting table to seat 4-5; whiteboards & markers, VCR/DVD/TV available)
Library Room Use Policy
Eight Group Study Rooms First-come, first-served basis for students; never reserved for any purpose. Groups of two or more students take precedence over single students.
Library Instruction Classroom Scheduled for library instruction sessions only; not part of the campus room schedule system. When not scheduled for library instruction sessions, will be an open computer lab for student use.
Taggart Room Scheduled through central campus scheduling and Nancy Miller/Susan Richards; may be used only when the library is open. Holds 10-15 persons; no food or drink.
Library Seminar Room Scheduled through central campus scheduling and Nancy Miller/Susan Richards; holds 10-15 persons. Has white board and conference table.
Amphitheater Scheduled through central campus scheduling and Nancy Miller/Susan Richards.
Library rooms, including pre-scheduled events, may only be used when the library is open.
All other spaces in the library are non-reservable.
This policy will be reviewed annually by the Library Committee.
5/6/2011, reviewed by Library Committee

Equipment that may be reserved or checked out

  • Projector Screen (may be used on campus)
  • Overhead Projector (projects transparencies; may be used on campus)
  • Portable Cassette Tape Recorders (may be used off campus)
  • VCR/DVD/TV units (in-library use only; also reserve a viewing room)
  • Hand-held Math Calculators (loaned for semester; user provides batteries--Fraction, Trig (TI-30X), graphing TI-83 - 84+ -- first-come, first-serve)
  • Personal-use PC Laptops (2 hour checkout to use within the library -- first-come, first-serve)

Other equipment & services available but not reservable

  • Headphones - some with microphones
  • Microform Readers & Printer (microfiche & microfilm)
  • Typewriter
  • MAC Computers (MyNWC, email, library, course-specific software, University of Wyoming outreach & Internet)
  • PC Computers (MyNWC, email, library, course-specific software, University of Wyoming outreach & Internet)