student handbook - Baton Rouge Community College

a service-connected disability after 30 days. Applicants must havereceived an honorable discharge to be eligible for the Post-9/11 GIBill. To see specific information about how this benefit compares toother education support bills, please visit the bill’s webpage at the U.S.Department of Veterans Affairs’ website: www.gibill.va.gov.Learning ResourcesBRCC provides students with various services to enhance academicinstruction and provide additional educational opportunities. TheLearning Resources department is composed of the Magnolia Library;Dual, Online, and Evening/Weekend Learning; Media Services; theArchives; the Teaching and Learning Center, and the college’s OpenComputer Labs.Magnolia LibraryLibrary services are available to BRCC students, faculty, staff, andthe surrounding community. The library contains a variety ofmaterials available to meet the information and research needs ofstudents, faculty, and staff. It has a core collection of over 40,000print and non-print items, including books, audio cassettes, VHStapes, DVDs, CD-ROMs, art slides, pamphlets, maps, and reference/reserve items. In addition, the library subscribes to NetLibrary,a collection of 61,000 electronic books, which can be accessedoutside of the library through an internet connection with thecreation of an account. The library also subscribes to over 150print serials, which includes magazines, newspapers, and journals.Magnolia Library is a consortium member of both LALINC(Louisiana Academic Library Information Network Consortium)and LOUIS (Louisiana Online University Information System).LOUIS provides library users with access to both the BRCC onlinecard catalog and the card catalogs of other Louisiana academicinstitutions. LOUIS also provides users access to a variety ofelectronic databases containing material from full-text journals,newspapers, and magazines. Databases include an EBSCOhostsuite, OED online, GaleGroup, Lexis-Nexis, Sanborn Maps LA,Math SciNet, JSTOR, and the World Book suite. Visit the library’swebpage on the BRCC website for additional information.10