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Services for Borrowers

You can use either a Chemeketa ID card or a public library card from public libraries in CCRLS system to check out materials. Students from colleges and universities in the Orbis Cascade Alliance (Summit libraries) may borrow materials at Chemeketa by registering as a visiting patron.

Length of checkout:

Books - 3 weeks
Magazines & journals - 1 week
You may renew material once, if no one else has requested it:
- By phone - 503.399.5043; By e-mail renewal@chemeketa.edu
- By logging into the catalog at http://catalog.ccrls.org/patroninfo
Fines are $.25 per day for late returns; $.25 per hour for late 2 and 4 hour reserves; $1 per day for all other reserves.

Obtaining a Borrower Card

How to obtain a Chemeketa Student Library card:

Your Chemeketa Student ID card is your library card.

You can obtain a free Chemeketa ID card on the main campus in Salem at the Bookstore in Bldg 1.

To use your Student ID card as your library card, stop by the library Circulation desk to activate your card. This is a fast and easy process and will allow you the ability to check out materials, request materials within CCRLS and Summit, and use computers on campus.

This card may also be used at any of the 17 public libraries in Marion, Polk, or Yamhill County.

How to obtain a Chemeketa employee library card:

Your employee ID card is your Chemeketa library card.

You can obtain a free Chemeketa Employee ID through Public Safety Office in Bldg 2.

To use your Employee ID card as your library card, stop by the library Circulation desk to activate your card. This is a fast and easy process and will allow you the ability to check out materials, request materials within CCRLS and Summit, and use student or public computers on campus.

This card will not give you on site access at any of the public libraries in the CCRLS system.

How to obtain a Public Library Card:

You can apply for a Public Library Card at the public library that serves the location where you reside. To apply for a card you will need to bring valid Picture ID (such as a valid Oregon Drivers License or Oregon ID card) that has your current residence address on it.

Anyone living inside Marion, Polk, or Yamhill County is eligible for a Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS) card. However, there are many types of cards depending on where you live. To find out more about these cards we recommend contacting your local public library.

Important Information about Your Library Card:

Items checked out on your card are your responsibility.
If you lose your card, please contact any CCRLS library immediately, you will be held responsible for any items checked out. Replacement cards cost $1.00.
If you have not used your card within two years, you will be asked to apply for a new one.

Obtaining a Summit Visiting Patron Card

Students from colleges and universities in the Orbis Cascade Alliance (Summit libraries) may borrow materials at Chemeketa by registering as a visiting patron. To register as a visiting patron at Chemeketa Community College library, you must be prepared to log into your home institution's library record. Please call your school's library if you need credentials or instructions for logging into your home library account.

When you come to register at Chemeketa's Circulation Desk, you will be asked to log into your account at your home college or university library. You will then be issued a visitor's card and barcode for use in checking out books from Chemeketa's library or for making Summit requests to be delivered for pickup at Chemeketa.

Interlibrary Loan Services

Please see our interlibrary loan page.

Equipment and Facilities Services

Computers & Printing

§ Multi Purpose area

Thirty-nine computers are available for employee, student and public use until ten minutes prior to closing. Microsoft Word 2007, Access 2007, Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007, Publisher 2007, and Internet Explorer 7. If you need to learn how to use these programs, the Instructional Assistant on duty near the multi-pupose computers can help you. If no assistant is on duty, the staff in the Chemeketa computer labs (Building 6, Room 218) are qualified to assist you.

Computers with red screens can be checked out with the barcode from a Chemeketa ID card
Computers with green screens can be checked out for two hours with the barcode from a CCRLS public library card
Computers with blue screens are express computers for 15 minute use. They can be checked out with the barcode from a Chemeketa ID card or a CCRLS public library card.
Visitors without cards should ask about guest cards at the Circulation Desk.

Reservations can be made for same day computer use at the reservation kiosk near the multipurpose computers. The reservation system allows two hour use with one hour renewal, for current Chemeketa students and employees unless other reservations for a station already exist. Public Library card holders are allowed two hour use with 30 minute renewal, as available, up to a maximum of four hours per day. During the term Instructional Assistants are conveniently located near the Reservation Kiosk to answer computer related questions. Black and white prints cost $.10 per page.

§ Instruction Room 240

Twenty computers are available for current Chemeketa students and employees when not in use by Library staff for instuction or training. This room is only available for internet use and has no printing capabilities.

Copy Machines

The library has two black and white photocopy machines. Copies are $.10 per page using cash. Copies are $.05 per page if money is loaded onto a Chemeketa ID card. Transparency sheets can be purchased at the Circulation desk for $.40.

Quiet group study rooms

There are nine quiet study rooms (rooms 220-223 and rooms 226-231) and two media viewing rooms (rooms 217 and 219) in the library. Study rooms accomodate up to six students; viewing rooms six to ten. Rooms may be reserved for the current week by adding names on the weekly calendar located outside each individual room. Room schedules for the upcoming week are available at the Circulation desk beginning Monday of the previous week.

Special Equipment

§ Tape Cassette Recorders

Students and public patrons are welcome to checkout recorders for in library use with a current library card. Recorders are available to current Chemeketa employees for use outside of the library.

§ Microfilm/Microfiche reader/printers

Two machines are located in the media viewing area. Black and white prints are $.10 each payable at the Circulation desk.

§ Video Camera

A camera is located in study room 219 and is reservable at the Circulation desk with a current library card.

§ Typewriters

Two typewriters are available on the South side of the Media Viewing area.

§ Adaptive Use

Services for students with disabilities at Chemeketa are coordinated through a central office, Disability Services. Library carrels and workstations are adjusted to a height which accommodates most wheelchairs. Some "extra-high" stations are available. The Library Instruction Room has adjustable keyboard trays.

Computers

Computer resources for library users with visual or motor impairments include computers with Dragon Dictate/Dragon Naturally Speaking for voice input, and Jaws For Windows for voice output. Trackball is available. These computers, in library rooms 224 and 225, are reserved through the Circulation desk. Use of these machines requires an accommodation letter, stating a need for assistive technology, from Disability Services. For more information please contact Disability Services.

Video phone

A video phone is available for use in Library room 224. Please see the Circulation desk for reserving this equipment. (No accommodation letter is required.)

Enlarging machine

A machine for enlarging the text of printed material for reading is available in the library. (No accommodation letter is required.)

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