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Philosophy: Getting Research Help

Frequently Asked Questions

Contact the Research Help Desk

The faculty librarians are professors who work in the library. Contact us for help with your research.

  • ​Drop by the Research Help Desk 
  • Call Merced: (209) 384-6083
  • Call Los Baños: (209) 381-6434
  • Text (209) 666-3235
  • Email refdesk@mccd.edu
  • Chat below

Research Help Desk Hours

Summer 2025

1st Floor of the Downey Center in Merced

  • Monday-Thursday: 9 AM - 1:45 PM 
    • A faculty librarian is available in person, via the chat, and Zoom

Los Baños Campus Library

  • Monday-Thursday: Not available for in-person assistance
    • The faculty librarian on duty is in Merced
      • Use the library chat to instant message or ask for a Zoom through the chat
      • Call Merced

After Hours

  • Get help after hours, weekends, holidays, and other non-instructional days through the library chat
  • The chat is staffed by librarians outside of Merced College when MCCD librarians are not available

Library Building Hours

Summer 2025

Downey Center in Merced

  • Monday-Thursday: 8 AM - 5 PM 

Los Baños Campus Library

  • Monday-Thursday
    • 7:30 AM - 1 PM
    • Closed 1 - 2 PM 
    • 2 PM - 6 PM

Requesting Materials from Other Libraries

If there is a book or an article that the library does not own or have access to through the databases, we can ask another library to send us the book or the article through Interlibrary Loan (ILL). Textbooks are excluded from ILL services.