(2nd Floor, Library Entry) A librarian is always on duty at this desk to assist students and faculty who need library materials for class assignments. Handouts on a variety of topics are available at the Information Desk. A few of the topics in the “How to…” series include: outlines, essays, research papers, resumes, literary criticism, and citing print and electronic sources. Other handouts list materials available at Laney Library, including periodical and special topic databases, college directories, and career sources.
Loan Desk
(2nd Floor, Library Entry) Your Peralta student ID card is your library card. Student ID cards are issued at the Welcome Center (A-101). (See Library Card above) Most library materials have a loan period of two weeks and can be checked out at the Loan Desk. Most of the library collection that is available for checkout is shelved on the 3rd and 4th floors of the library. In addition, there are New Books, Paperback, New Readers, ESL, Graphic Novels, and Children’s Literature collections.
Printing
The library provides 20 free black/white printings per day from library computers or wireless printing. Wireless printing is available viahttps://laney.goprint.cloud Students may get 10 free pages printing from Tech Center.
Textbooks
Housed in this area are: reserve materials, textbooks, supplemental class materials, college catalogs, magazines, newspapers, dictionaries and thesauri, resume books, exam books, and guides for writing essays and research papers. Most reserves and textbooks cannot leave the library. They are “Library Use Only”. A few are loaned for 2 days. Students who return textbooks late will be fined.Reserve a textbook --->>>
