Learning Resource Center The LRC welcomes you to its website and encourages your usage of both its real and virtual collections and services. The LRC is located on the third floor overlooking the east mall of the main college entrance. The LRC includes many subjects in many formats: more than 50,000 books, periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, videotapes, CDs, microfilm, and equipment. All media are shown in the dictionary card catalog, including author, title, and subject entries. SVCC print and some other media are also shown in the online computer catalog. Several online computer catalog and internet workstations have been added to the LRC to expand the resources for research. Many online encyclopedia and other reference sources are accessible from the internet workstations. The LRC subscribes to more than 250 periodical titles and keeps back issues for several years. Title lists are kept on the index tables, the computer tables, and at the desk. Current titles must be used in the LRC. Older titles are loaned. Major periodical indexes, print and online fulltext, are available for most subjects. Microfilm copies of fifty of the more often used titles are received. The LRC is a member of the Northern Illinois Library System. Through the LRC, interlibrary loan may be requested online, through NILS to other system members and directly from other libraries. These loans are, however, restricted to students, faculty, and staff. Everyone may use the LRC.  Students obtain free cards, renewable each semester. Free, annually renewable cards are available to college district residents who are at  least sixteen years of age. Groups, such as a teacher and class, are encouraged to visit the LRC but should schedule advance arrangements for specific needs and interests. Open shelf books are loaned for a four-week period. One renewal may be requested. Current periodical titles must be used in the LRC. Older titles are loaned for a one-week period. The card owner is responsible for all titles (fines and/or replacement costs) charged to his/her card. Overdue charges are five cents daily for open shelf books and periodicals, fifty cents daily for reserve materials, and two dollars daily for videotapes. Lost materials should be promptly reported at the circulation desk. Otherwise, fines accumulate in addition to replacement costs. All materials must be returned and all fines must be paid at the end of each semester before grades and/or transcripts can be released. The LRC enforces state law which defines as theft the failure to return overdue titles for which the LRC has sent a written reminder/request.