Philosophy: Getting Research Help

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

1st Floor of the Downey Center in Merced

• Monday-Thursday: 8 AM - 8 PM 
• Friday: 8 AM - 5 PM
• Weekends: Closed

Los Baños Campus Library

• Monday-Thursday: 9 AM - 6 PM 
• Friday: 8 AM - 2 PM
• Weekends: Closed

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

Merced

• Monday-Thursday: 8 AM - 8 PM 
• Friday: 8 AM - 5 PM
• Weekends: Closed

Los Baños

• Monday-Thursday: 8 AM - 6 PM 
• Friday: 8 AM - 2 PM
• Weekends: Closed

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.