Penn State University Libraries - Group Study Rooms - Knowledge Commons

General information on the Group Study Rooms in West Pattee:

• 4 to 6 users can connect their laptops to “pucks” (Mediascape). What appears on one’s laptop will then appear on the large screen monitors.
• Macs and iPads require a VGA adapter. These are available at the Knowledge Commons Help Desk. When using a VGA adapter:
  • Make sure Mac laptop is awake and that dongle (vga connector) is connected
  • Manually turn on display in mediascape room
  • Connect dongle to pod connector and wait
  • Does the laptop display on the big screen automatically?
  • If not, click the pod to turn the light green
  • If it still doesn't display, try detecting displays (under apple icon > system preferences > displays > click "detect displays") Once detected you should see 2 boxes, one for your laptop display and one for the external VGA display. Next, set the VGA resolution for the external display to 1920 X 1080 pixels at 60hz

Detailed Description of the Group Study Rooms in the Knowledge Commons

• W129: Group study room (6 – 8 capacity)
  D-shaped Mediascape; Samsung 32” – 1080p – LED-LCD flat panel, white boards
• W128: Group study room (6 – 8 capacity)
  D-shaped Mediascape; Two Samsung 37” – 1080p – LED-LCD flat panel, white boards
• W127: Group study room (6 – 8 capacity)
  Thomas G. Kerr Group Study
  D-shaped Mediascape; Two Samsung 37” – 1080p – LED-LCD flat panel, white boards
• W126: Group study room (6 – 10 capacity)
  D-shaped Mediascape; Two Samsung 37” – 1080p – LED-LCD flat panel, white boards
• W125:   Group study room (2-4 capacity)
  Dorothy Taylor Henderson Group Study
  D-shaped Mediascape; Samsung 32” – 1080p – LED-LCD flat panel, whiteboard
• W124: Group study room (2-4 capacity)
  Mabel C. and John P. Crispell Group Study
  D-shaped Mediascape; Samsung 32” – 1080p – LED-LCD flat panel, whiteboard
• W123: Group study room (also referred to as Small Group Study Pod) (2-4 capacity)
  Sally L. Schaadt Group Study
  D-shaped Mediascape; Samsung 32” – 1080p – LED-LCD flat panel, whiteboard
• W122: Group study room (2-4 capacity)
  Jeffrey and Tara Shanahan Group Study
  D-shaped Mediascape; Samsung 32” – 1080p – LED-LCD flat panel; whiteboard

Leisure Reading Group Study Rooms – W101A Pattee and W101B Pattee

• W101A accomodates up to 8 people and is equipped with tables and chairs
• W101B sets up to 4 in collaborative chairs

General information on the Group Study Rooms
in Media Commons

These rooms can be reserved for students working on audio/video projects by emailing request to mediacommons@psu.edu.

Presentation Practice Studios

• Reserve studios by contacting Media Commons (mediacommons@psu.edu)
• W134 & W132: Presentation Practice Studio (also, Presentation Practice Room or 1-Button Presentation Room)
• Equipment: Mac mini, 19" Monitor; podium on caster, projector, wall-mounted camera, LED lights (cool lights) ceiling-mounted, green screen roll

Detailed Description of the Group Study Rooms
in Media Commons

• W136: Post-production studio (12 – 15 capacity)
  "Designed to house individual students working on multimedia (audio / video) projects, the suite will host three dedicated multimedia edition workstations."
  Three 27” iMacs, DVD Deck, three U-shaped tables for groups of 3-4 students
• W133: Audio recording / Group study room (4 – 6 capacity)
• W138: Audio recording / Group study room (4-6 capacity)
• W142: Audio recording / Group study room (6-8 capacity)

Each room has: 21” iMac, microphone connected to iMac

• W135: Post-production / Group study room (6 – 8 capacity)
• W131: Post-production / Group study room (6 – 8 capacity)

Each room: 27” iMac, microphone on stand