teaching effectiveness and student performance. Librarians also access listservs, attend conferences, workshops, and examine professional literature for information and ideas to improve/increase content, presentation, and assessment tools (IIC1b-6). II.C.1.c The institution provides students and personnel responsible for student learning programs and services adequate access to the library and other learning support services, regardless of their location or means of delivery. Staffing Library staff consists of 4.5 contract librarians (FTE), 1.68 FTE hourly librarians, 9.5 full-time classified staff members, .2 hourly classified staff, and 205 hours of student assistants per week. In fall 2007, hiring was completed for a vacant full-time librarian position. In addition, two .5 classified positions were collapsed, creating one full-time evening classified position; that position was also filled in fall 2007.
collections within the library. (Examples include video/DVD titles, easy-to-read library materials, and cookbooks for the culinary program.) In addition, the library subscribes to twenty-eight full-text online databases. In 2008-2009, the library plans to add an electronic book collection with access to individual titles incorporated into the online library catalog. Most of the databases are accessible from off-campus with a user and password list provided by the library. The library is now establishing remote authentication for all databases through a proxy server, an improvement that will eliminate the need for a password list. Librarians work closely with discipline faculty to ensure that appropriate online library resources are available (IIC1a-5, IIC1c-1, IIC1c-4).
Instructional Support Since the December 2007 hiring of an instruction/ media librarian, the library has embarked on several other electronic access initiatives, including the development of an online library video tour and an online version of the library’s course, LIS 85 Access to Resources and Services During the academic year, the library is open six days (Library and Information Studies). Ideally, staff will a week, for a total of 72 hours. In fall 2006, Saturday increase by two to three librarians by 2010 to provide equitable web reference services to distance education hours were extended from four to eight hours. The students and to assist with the GE outcomes related Listening/Viewing Center is open six days a week, for a total of 68.5 hours, and its Saturday hours were to Information Competency as librarians work with also extended when the library hours were extended. students enrolled in English 1A/LIS 90 (linked class) Current hours are sufficient to meet student demands. and LIS 85. The library offers access to a variety of electronic resources, including the library catalog, fulltext databases and locally-developed web pages designed to provide research guidance and enhance instruction. Full access to the library collection and the online catalog are available to walk-in library users whenever the library is open. Remote access to the databases is available to students via the Internet with the use of passwords provided at the reference desk (IIC1a-5). Currently no reference service is available though the Internet, but phone questions are handled whenever the library is open. The library catalog provides access to the entire library collection, including online links to the table of contents for many newer titles and direct live links to listings of special
The library provides instructional support in its L104 classroom on a drop-in basis for students across the curriculum. A librarian provides pointof-need instruction and assistance to students, using the library’s print and electronic collection, the Internet, and software to retrieve, save, and format information. The 24-computer-workstation classroom enables students to conduct research or use a word-process program on all the workstations. In spring 2008, the number of hours the lab is open increased from eight to twelve hours after the district completed hiring for a vacant full-time librarian position (December 2007). The library provides FTE staffing for the drop-in lab through LIS 500: Computer Lab for Library Information Studies. Drop-in hours are not offered during intersession and summer school because of limited funds. Librarians
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