Media Services

• Overview
  • Hours & Locations
  • Staff
• Classrooms & Labs
  • Media Retrieval System (MRS)
  • Satellite TV Signals Available
• Borrowing Equipment
  • Audience Response Systems: Overview
  • Equipment Available
  • Laptops & Projectors
  • Fine Policy
• Media Viewing
  • Faculty & Staff FAQ
  • Student FAQ
• Training & Support
• Event Services
  • Policies, Procedures, and Necessary Information
  • Technology Built Into Event Spaces
  • Event Booking Process
  • Equipment Rental Rates
  • Media Retrieval System (MRS)
  • Advertise Your Events on the MDS
• Request Forms
  • Media Equipment for Classrooms
  • Event Request Forms
  • MRS Broadcast Request
  • Software Installation Request
  • Message Display Request
  • Performance Release

Student FAQ

Where to View/Listen to Media

1. How do I check out a video/DVD?
2. Where do I go to check out a reserved video/DVD?
3. Where do I go to watch a reserved video/DVD by myself?
4. Where do I go to watch a reserved video/DVD with other students?

1. How do I check out a video/DVD?
   Please use the Simmons Library Catalog to find the name and call number of the video you would like to check out. 
   The entire multimedia collection, including reserves, is housed in the Beatley Library.  While you can continue to borrow equipment from Media Services in P108, please go to the Library to borrow videos or DVDs.
2. Where do I go to watch a video/DVD by myself?
   The new Media Viewing & Listening Room is on the ground floor of the Beatley Library, adjacent to the collection of DVDs and videotapes. There are 22 individual stations in the room, where you may also watch broadcasts scheduled by faculty.  There are two stations in the Viewing Room where you may view VHS video in any format (including NTSC (U.S.), or multiple versions of PAL and Secam), or DVD from any country or "region"). You may also watch a DVD from the United States "region" in any computer with DVD capabilities, including all workstations in the Library Information Commons, and probably your own laptop.
   Headphones are available for checkout at the Technology Desk in the Information Commons.
   The Language Lab, C311, has been renovated as a beautiful classroom.
3. Where do I go to watch a video/DVD with other students?
   Gather with your classmates to watch videos and DVDs in the Beatley Library Group Rooms (Group Rooms must be reserved in advance, at the Circulation Desk). Your professor may also schedule a broadcast of a video that you may watch in a classroom, study room, or in the Media Viewing & Listening Room.