The Henry Madden Library has several sources that go unused each semester because students are unaware they exist.

Librarian Ross LaBaugh said, “A lot of students don’t know how to use the library. They can function and survive but not use all of its capabilities.”

LaBaugh said that he sees the staff as the most unused source in the library.

The Music and Media Center houses thousands of CDS and movies for students to watch and listen to in the library or check out and take home with them.

Rick Chacon, outreach counselor for the Lyles College of Engineering said, “I think it’s very good because there are a lot of foreign movies that I enjoy.”

Like Chacon, anyone can use the library and media center for educational reasons or for just personal enjoyment.

The Music and Media Center is one of the largest media libraries out of the 23 campuses in the California State University system.

The media center has hundreds of video recordings in DVD and VHS format. The music library has education films, documentaries such as Michael Moore’s “Sicko,” foreign films and popular movies like “Lord of the Rings.”

The music library has thousands has thousands of CDS, dozens of cassette tapes and records. The library holds close to 21,000 CDS and more than 40,000 records.

The library has the entire Beatles collection on CD as well as all the Tupac Shakur albums.

The music library has two group viewing rooms that contain a large projector screen that includes a DVD/VCR player, a Blu-ray player and iPod docking. These rooms are generally intended for groups of students and people but anyone can use them.

The library has individual viewing and listening stations.

Students can check out headphones at the front desk of the Music and Media Center.

Students can check out five media items for a week.

The library has a record player.

Fresno has more than one million books that students can check out.

It only takes five minutes to evacuate the library.

The Learning Resource Center provides supplemental instruction where a tutor will sit in a class to help students in study groups for an entire semester.

The library conducts one fire drill per semester.

There are special collections that include literature, artifacts and memorabilia of subjects like old Fresno politicians and Japanese internment camps.

Vongi Yang, Angie Lozano and Chris Collins contributed to this report.