Rock Creek Library Renovation
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Rock Creek Library Renovation


The Rock Creek Library has moved to its new location in Building 3, Room 225. The library will be in this temporary location through Winter Term 2025. This limited space includes:

  • Check Out desk – pick up items that you have placed on hold.
  • Research Help desk – librarians can help you with your research needs
  • Course reserves
  • The ESOL collection
  • Technology for checkout
  • Anatomy models

Hours & Contact Information

Books

  • Although the Rock Creek book collection will not be available for most of the year, you can still order books from other campuses and the Orbis Cascade Alliance to be delivered to Building 3, Room 225.
  • The book drop in Building 9 will be closed during construction. All checked out items should be returned to Building 3, Room 225. There is now a book drop available outside of Building 3, Room 225 for after hours drop off.

Computers

  • Rock Creek Library computers are not available in Building 3, Room 225. Computers for actively enrolled students are available in the temporary Student Computing Center (Building 2, Room 256).
  • Student Computing Center hours:
    8:00 am – 7:00 pm, Monday – Thursday
    8:00 am – 4:00 pm, Friday and Saturday

Printing

Research help

Drop-in research help is available in Building 3, Room 225 and in Building 7, Room 218 (Student Learning Center)

Digital Navigators

Digital Navigators will be available in Building 2, Room 256 and Building 7, Room 218 (Student Learning Center)

Questions

Please let us know if you have questions or if there is anything we can do to make this work smoothly for you.

November feature: research help

You can schedule an appointment to get individual time with a librarian in the temporary Rock Creek library. A reference librarian is like a tutor for finding and citing information. They can work with you on coming up with a research topic or question; finding credible and useful information on the web or in a library database; evaluating sources and citing them.

Reference librarians are also available for drop in research help,

  • Monday through Thursday from 8:30 am to 5 pm in the temporary Rock Creek library (Building 3, Room 225)
  • Monday – Thursday from 12 to 2 pm in the Student Learning Center (Building 7, Room 218)

If you need help right away, you can chat with a librarian 24/7. You can also email a librarian. Visit Contact Us for additional details.

Past Features

October feature: course reserves

In the temporary Rock Creek Library you’ll find items set aside by instructors for use by PCC students. These range from books, to solution sets, to videos/DVDs, to Biology models. Most items will need to be used in the library.

You can learn more about the PCC Library course reserves collection on our website.

 

September feature: student equipment

The temporary Rock Creek Library has a wide variety of technology for student checkout. The equipment collection includes laptops and Chromebooks, wifi hotspots, cameras, headphones, and more.

The Library also has a collection of adaptive technology for checkout and Accessible Education and Disability Resources has additional adaptive equipment available.