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Academic Assistance and Support


Website: http://www.plu.edu/~aast
Phone:  253-535-7518
Email:  learningctr@plu.edu

The Academic Assistance Center (AAC) provides services to help students navigate challenges successfully.  We offer:

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Digital Media Center


Website: http://www.plu.edu/~dmc
Phone:  253-535-8728
Email:  dmc@plu.edu

Need help with a web page, a presentation, or a digital video clip? The Digital Media Center provides computers, peripherals, and printers for developing digital media products. Staff are available to help you learn the technology for creating materials for your class assisgnments and presentations.

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Language Resource Center


Website: http://www.plu.edu/~lrc
Phone:  253-535-8330
Email:  lrc@plu.edu

The Language Resource Center features a large collection of multimedia programs that supports and promotes language study. The LRC offers software, computers, and student staff and faculty to assist with language and computer questions.

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Librarian Live


Website: http://www.plu.edu/~libr/libinfo/librarian.html

Through the library's Librarian Live service, you can get help with research while you’re online.

After connecting to Librarian Live, type in your research questions and a librarian will chat with you. If the answer can be found on a specific web page or web site, the librarian can send you the site, or they can guide you through one of the many databases that PLU has access to over the web. Web pages and other electronic resources will open in a separate browser on your computer's desktop.

You don't need any special software, just access to the web from any web browser.

To connect to the service, click on the yellow box located on the PLU Library home page. After you type in your ePass and password, you will be connected to the Librarian Live service.

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Library and Research Resources


Website: http://www.plu.edu/~libr
Phone:  253-535-7518
Email:
  libr@plu.edu

The Robert A.L. Mortvedt Library is the central multimedia learning resource center serving the entire university community. Its collections are housed and services provided in a modern functional building which has study spaces for 850 students and shelving for 500,000 books, periodicals, microfilm, and audio-visual materials. The library receives over 2,000 current magazines, journals, and newspapers. Our mission is described in the vision statement.

In addition to its general collection of books and other materials, the library has a special collection devoted to the Scandinavian Immigrant Experience and contains the university and regional Lutheran church archives. Other resources include the Curriculum Collection of the School of Education, the microfiche collection of college catalogs, maps, pamphlets, national and trade bibliographies, CD-ROM indexes, and internet access to periodical indexes and full-text journals.

The library is open for service many hours during a typical week in a regular term. Our staff offer expert reference, circulation, information, and media services. The reference staff provides beginning and advanced library instruction for all students. Students and faculty have rapid access to materials which can be borrowed from other libraries through interlibrary loan.

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Writing Center


Website: http://www.plu.edu/~writing
Phone:  253-535-8709
Email:
  writing@plu.edu

The PLU Writing Center is a resource for all PLU writers and teachers of writing. Because we believe that all writers, whether novice or professional, benefit from feedback, our mission is to provide a site that fosters a writing community. Both the online and physical Writing Centers are places for active learning, so papers are never simply dropped off or sent for review. Instead, our services are designed to provide feedback to writers at every stage in the writing process. A student may bring an assignment, an idea, or a draft to the center and consult one-on-one with trained peer writing consultants. Likewise, commuter students may communicate with our on-line writing consultant for feedback on commonly asked questions concerning drafting, documenting, and revising texts. Our emphasis is on helping students become better writers, rather than on "fixing" individual pieces of writing, so we work to make sessions as conversational as possible. Consultants also assist in the editing process by sharing with writers proofreading strategies, ways to identify patterns of error, and ways to utilize handbooks and other writers' resources. We offer feedback on papers composed for any academic discipline, as well as help with resumes, job application letters, and graduate school applications. Both the consultants and director are available to faculty for feedback on designing writing assignments and on facilitating successful peer review.

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