San Diego Mesa College Learning Resource Center

The 1^st floor has a small area that one can eat in as long as the food isn’t loud or smelly. The definition of smelly by one of the rude front desk personal is very liberal. I was told my APPLE was not allowed because she could smell it. Yes, it was a nice fresh yummy apple. I ignored her and finished the few bites and made sure to throw the apple core in a near by trash receptacle for her enjoyment.
The book stacks are great and very diverse if not a tad bit out dated. But the front desk person, no all of them just one, make this place a 1 star.

It’s an alright library. The outside of the library looks old and kind of like a jail cell. But the inside is a lot better. It also has a café to purchase foods and beverages!

Mesa College is so spread out and a pretty good size campus so I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised that the LRC is big. Even so, I was impressed. 4 floors of study space and a café on the 1^st floor! I didn’t take a very close look as I was there to attend a seminar on campus. I just walked through a bit and saw that there were plenty of places to study. If I ever decide to attend Mesa College, you know where you can find me!

I went to Mesa before transferring to SDSU. I came back for my last class needed to graduate.
When I first was going to Mesa (oh so many moons ago), this was a fairly new library. Since I didn’t know much better, I loved it.
I still think that their book stacks are pretty well stocked with a nice selection and it is a really great place to study. SDSU’s library isn’t much better since it isn’t as modern, but it is bigger and makes this place look dwarfed by comparison.
There is a lot more study area than there is actual resources/​books at the LRC.
My bigger issue here though is the wifi. IT SUCKS! Srsly.
So you have to log into one of their computers downstairs to obtain a password to get onto the wifi. Fine. Stupid, but ok.
Then, once you have your password assigned to you, it might as well be moot because you ain’t gettin on teh internets.
It’s spotty at best. Nonexistent at most times. I had to go and sit myself and my laptop on the stairs around the 3^rd floor area to try and get even a meager signal. Same goes for my ipod touch.
Also, the phone reception is awful there too. Granted, it’s a library and you shouldn’t be talking on the phone, but there are areas where it says you’re allowed to talk on the phone if need be. At any rate, the reception is so bad you can’t even get a text out to tell someone why you can’t answer the phone (I’m in the library!).
I’m not sure if it’s just the way the building was built or if there are jammers near by, but this place is just not for communicating with the outside world while you study.
I was thinking maybe it’s the design of the building and it was built before the advent of wifi and so how would they know they’d have problems with the signals. But that still doesn’t explain the cell reception.
There are computers downstairs that you can go online with, but that means you have to sit and wait for one to come free because since no one can use their own computers to get on the internet, everyone wants to get onto those computers.
Tip: 3^rd floor book stacks has computers (all be it slow ones running windows 95) that can get on the internet.
They need to update somehow to a better system. Until then, this is a great place to do anything else (hence the 2 stars)

The fact that I am in the computer lab typing this, this place gets plus points.
Computer lab is huge and there are always enough computers for students to use. Hence, students leave when class time is reaching near so there are available spots.
The second floor is mainly for study time. I like the individual group study rooms, but it’s hard to find an empty one since so many people enjoy going in there. The individual tables are fine also.
For those people out there that are lazy the elevators are the answers!
I haven’t used their books yet, because I mainly use this place to work on homework and study +use the computers. So for those reasons this place is perfect

For some reason I’d been here before, before I started taking a class here. I always stare at the library as I walk by. For a community college, they have an amazing library. The library is built halfway over a canyon with HUGE windows looking out over it (it is a parking lot view but the building itself looks amazing) It has five floors of studying possibility. I don’t check out books or do anything else but study here so I dont know much else.

Not bad for a library built in 1998.
This library accents the vertical with over five floors. Main stairway and elevator access.
Plenty of books and online databases, some of which can be accessed from home along with their online catalog.
Limited study rooms but plenty of open tables on various floors.
Sadly the large copy room on the main floor has been turned into a Café.
Most of the staff here appears to wish they were elsewhere. Hey, no one ever said working in a library was going to be exciting but you can at least try to put some effort into it.
Large computer labs on the first and fourth floor.
Parking is $ 5 unless you have a student pass. Parking is a pain, good luck finding spaces. Parking is FREE from 12 noon — 6 pm (no decal or pay permit required). Closest parking is off the Marlesta/​Chasewood Drive entrance to Mesa.