The Online Job Manual for Student Consultants provides you with detailed descriptions on how to perform your job at the Marjorie Iglow Mitchell Multimedia Center. Here is a brief overview which covers some of the most important daily aspects of your job. Many of these topics are outlined in greater detail throughout the Online Job Manual.

1. You should always try to check in or open a few minutes ahead of your scheduled time if possible. This is particularly important during weekday hours when the student that you are replacing has to get to a class.

2. When you come in to work your shift, always check the schedules for the Forum Room, Video Theater, and 3746 Seminar Room (check Meeting Maker) before you do anything else. It is essential for you to know what classes are coming in during your shift and to be ready for them ahead of time. In general, this means having the projection system warmed up (turn on 15 minutes before the start of a class), doors unlocked 15 minutes before the start of a class, lights turned on in the room, the computer turned on or set up, the media loaded in the equipment and cued to start if it is from our collection, and sound levels checked and set. It is very upsetting for a faculty member to come in and find the room locked and nothing ready.

3. Always rewind videotapes! Always check and be certain that a video is rewound before you reshelve it.

4. You absolutely must reshelve media on a continual basis during your shift as users finish watching them. You may not leave your shift without reshelving the media. If everyone did this, the shift of the last hour of the day would have to re-shelve for the whole day. This is unfair.

5. Please remember to be aware when classes are finished using the Video Theater, Forum Room and Seminar Room. Check the security camera and Meeting Maker to see when classes are finished. For security reasons it is essential that you get media out of these rooms, turn off all equipment, and lock the rooms as soon as viewing is completed. This must be done unless classes are booked in Meeting Maker back-to-back, or scheduled less than one hour apart.

6. The use of the Multimedia Center is strictly limited to Northwestern users with current ID cards (a wildcard or a purple Library Borrower's Card), and to University of Chicago students who have reciprocal privileges. You must check ID's at the counter when users give you their request slips.