Media Center

Office

Location: Platner Hall, 2nd Floor
Tel: 562.907.4267
E-mail: MediaCenter@whittier.edu

About the Media Center

The Media Center furnishes the College with a wide range of audio-visual services. In addition to providing equipment for instructional purposes, cultural events, and athletic games, the Center houses an extensive software library of audio tapes, video tapes, and films. Photography, sound, and synchronized slide programs also can be readily produced in the Center’s facilities.

Along with a darkroom and audio booth, the Media Center houses a color television studio and sophisticated editing bay. It offers faculty and students the opportunities to produce diverse programming such as individual video projects and local documentaries.

Services

The Whittier College Media Center delivers a variety of services related to the acquisition and use of educational visual materials to Whittier College faculty, staff, and students. Specifically, the Media Center:

  • Schedules the use of large screening rooms by instructors and campus organizations. Such rooms include Platner 202, Diehl 118 and the Lautrup-Ball Cinema (Hoover 100) at the times and on the days that they are not slated to be in use by regularly scheduled classes;
  • Checks out videos for use by faculty, and schedules, delivers and retrieves TV/VCR setups and overhead and slide projectors and screens used in classrooms. Complete catalogues of the Media Center's more than 3,200 holdings are available at the Center. Faculty members may check out up to three items for overnight or weekend previewing. Students are not permitted to check out such materials, but can view them at the Media Center by appointment;
  • Makes appointments for faculty and students to view visual materials at the Center on an individual or small group basis outside normal classrooms;
  • Assists in acquisition of new films, tapes, DVDs and other visual  materials, including taping programs off the air;
  • Provides public address systems and related equipment for on-campus events;
  • Offers media production services to faculty, including still photography, slide production, videotape duplication and audio and video studio production.

Staff

Rich Cheatham '68, Director of the Media Center
Office: Platner 215
Tel: 562.907.4846
E-mail: rcheatham@whittier.edu

Charles "Chuck" Elliot '67, Media Coordinator
Office: Platner 206
Tel: 562.907.4267
E-mail: celliott@whittier.edu