Media Center

location

Bonnie Bell Wardman Library
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.

 

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:

  • 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

Paul Hong, Media Service Manager
Office: Wardman Library
Tel: 562-907-4235
E-mail: phong@whittier.edu

Terry McGonagle, Media Coordinator
Office: Wardman Library
Tel: 562-464-4545
E-mail: tmcgonagle@whittier.edu