 This video is brought to you by the University Library's Sanford Media Center, located on the second floor of Gorgas Library. This video is just a quick introduction to the Sanford Media Center and what we do. We are a Mac-only computer lab, and we have a lot of creative media software, video editing, photo editing, music creation, and audio editing. We support all of those types of softwares, and we can assist students actively with projects in those softwares, or just introduce students who may be interested in learning some of those softwares and help them with any type of projects that they may have. We also support classes that have digital media projects. So if you're watching this video, you may have a future digital media project, and you will definitely want to reach out to us, and we can assist you with the software or the project design or ideas. That is why we exist. We are here to help you. In fact, this wallpaper that you're looking at right now was created here in the Sanford Media Center by one of our talented student workers that was really good at digital painting in Photoshop. Let's just dive right in. I'm going to show you to our website really quick. If you go to the library's website, which is really easy to remember, it's just lib.ua.edu, you will come to this page that shows you all of the branch library's hours. You can also get to those specific websites by clicking these links. You can also go up here to this tab using the library and find the Sanford Media Center there, as well as equipment and information on 3D printing and the whisper booths, which we'll go over a little bit more later in other videos. So first, let's go over to the Sanford Media Center's website that has our hours listed right at the very top. You can click on see all hours and see a calendar to see when we are open, and we are the only lab on campus that offers active assistance. So if you're in here working on a Photoshop project, you can raise your hand and our support staff will come and assist you as best as they can with whatever software you're working in. You can also request a consultation, which is where we sit down with you for one hour and we'll help you with your existing project or with maybe creating or coming up with some ideas for a future project, or let's say you're just interested in learning some of the software that we support. You can request a consultation in, let's say, Photoshop, for example, and even if you've never touched Photoshop, we will sit down with you for an hour and introduce you to Photoshop some of the basic tools and what kinds of things you can do in Photoshop. So that's completely outside of even a project that you may be working on, but we do help with projects as well. And we also support the equipment that is checked out at the circulation desk, so if you check out any audio or video equipment and have any issues with that or questions about the proper use of any of that equipment, we can assist with that as well. So feel free to contact us about any of that for consultations or for support for equipment. You can do that really easy just by clicking on Contact and you can give us a call or email us or you can just fill out this form and it'll automatically send us an email and request some assistance and we can reserve a time for you to come in and we will help you with whatever you need help with. Outside of the 12 computers, one of those computers is of course the computer in our recording studio. A lot of people don't know that we have a studio in the Sanford Media Center. This space does require a one-hour training session to be able to access, but once you have completed that training, you can come in and use this space anytime you want. In fact, that's where I'm recording this video right now. It's a really great space. It's pretty popular so we do recommend reserving it in advance. If you have a small audio project and you don't really want to have to complete the training session to use the recording studio, you can also use the whisper booths located down on the first floor of Gorgas Library and these require no training to use and they are like little small miniature versions of the studio that's in the Sanford Media Center, but if you've got an audio project where you need to record, say an audio essay or a podcast, you can use the whisper booths and do that. You'll notice there's a full MIDI keyboard in there as well so if you're musically inclined, you can also use that space in the same manner that you do the studio if the studio just happens to be in use at the time that you need to use it. But that is pretty much what we do at the Sanford Media Center. We help people with creative digital media software and assist with their projects and assist with any equipment that's checked out from the circulation desk. So if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us. Again, you can do that just by hitting our contact page and giving us a call or shooting us an email and we will help you with anything that you may need assistance with.