1. 1.     COGNOTES annual Highlights Edition http://iebms.heiexpo.com/ala/ALA15CognotesHighlights.pdf
2. 2.     Sessions with Handouts available: http://alaac15.ala.org/sessions/handouts
3. 3.    LITA Top Tech Trends Panel | ALA Annual 2015 http://goo.gl/6ERof8

Over the summer the library converted their Horizon system from a locally hosted server over to a SaaS service provided by Sirsi.

Jenny Yap is the newest tenure-track Librarian at Berkeley City College.  Jenny previously worked part time as a librarian at Berkeley City College and as an adjunct English instructor at CSU East Bay.  She is currently serving on the Steering Committee of the California Conference on Library Instruction, is co-chair of the 2016 Annual ALA Diversity and Outreach Fair for the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association, and was chair of the California Academic and Research Libraries 2016 Conference Workshops Session Proposal team

https://s3.amazonaws.com/WebVault/surveys/LJ_AcademicLibrarySurvey2015_results.pdf  Academic libraries need to be embedded in campus culture. New survey from Gale and Library Journal reveals disconnects among academic faculty and librarians. 

Working with Library Journal, Gale reached out to academic faculty and librarians across the U.S. and received roughly one thousand survey responses. The objective of the survey was to see if faculty and librarians were on the same page when it comes to understanding the purpose and essential functions of an academic library: Do they communicate their respective needs to each other? Is there room for improvement?

Reference Librarians Shirleigh Brannon and Morgan Brynnan retired at the end of the academic year 2014- 15. Both of them served as full-time Reference Librarians since Fall 2006.

Michael Smith is our new full-time Reference Librarian. Michael has been with Butte College Library since 2009 as Library Senior Technician responsible for Interlibrary Loan and periodicals, and sharing the reference desk services with the librarians. Michael started his library career in 2004 at Fresno Public Library and earned his master’s degree in library science from San Jose State in 2010.

Online Education and Student Equity

Wednesday, 9/23/2015

Irvine Marriott, 18000 Van Karman Ave, Irvine, CA 92162

Thursday, 9/24/2015

Renaissance Club Sport Hotel, 2805 Jones Road, Walnut Creek, CA  94597

Featured Online Education Presenter:

CCL has an organizational structure loosely based on the challenging geographic spread of the 114 colleges in the system.  A list of the regions and the librarian currently representing each region can be found at the Executive Board Membership page at the CCL website. CCL actively encourages the regions to gather at least once a semester for a sharing experience.  CCL will pick up the tab for a [modest] lunch for these gatherings.   CCL San Francisco / East Bay Region: The CCL San Francisco / East Bay Regional group will hold a fall meeting on Friday, October 30 at Las Positas College.  For details contact Evelyn Lord, Laney College.   Los Angeles Regional Group met over lunch on August 19^th. Paula Paggi, the CCL representative for this group reported: It was a good time to share and discuss current issues. Topics of discussion included: Accreditation standards; Canvas, the new common ILS service; Equity plans; the CCL-EAR deselection process; future workshop topics for CCL; and Food in the library. We shared Annual plan ideas and strategic planning for libraries. Several commented about adding Films on Demand and Question point to the statewide supported databases. During the regular semesters, there is so little time to relax and talk with our peers, the couple of hours during Summer and Winter breaks has proved to be valuable time for sharing information, ideas, and problem solving.  

Citrus College hosted the 2nd annual GumbyFest Sept 18-20. The Hayden Memorial Library is also home to the Gumby Museum until 10/16 where 60 years of Gumby history is on display.

City College of San Francisco is pleased to announce the hiring of three new librarians: Chad Stephenson and Lisa Velarde, who worked for CCSF part-time for many years and Julian Prentice, who comes to CCSF from Google, with part-time experience at other community colleges in the Bay area.

The CCSF Library will be opening a library services location at the CCSF Evans Center this month, and opening an additional location at Civic Center later this semester.

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Librarian James Horn Lim (City College of San Francisco) passed away on March 19, just two months short of his planned retirement.  James most recently served as the CCSF Library Distance Learning Coordinator.  James’ dedication to library instruction and expertise in library systems and technology were complemented by a generous, kind, collaborative spirit.  Many librarians, at CCSF and beyond, relied on him for his well-informed advice.   He will be dearly missed by his colleagues at CCSF and throughout the Bay Area.

On June 30, 2015 Clovis Community College became the newest California Community College. Clovis is in the  State Center Community College District which now has the NEWEST community college in California and the OLDEST community college in the state with Fresno City College which was established in 1910.

State Center Community College District now has three full colleges, Fresno City College, Reedley College and Clovis Community College.

Ann Buchalter is the new Technical Services / Systems Librarian at College of Alameda.  Ann transferred from Laney College where she served as Media/Instruction Librarian.  Ann also serves on the CCL Electronic Access & Resources Committee.

Stephanie M. Roach, Digital Resources Librarian, Received Award to Internationalize Curriculum

Stephanie has been awarded a fellowship for 2015-16 to participate in the Education Partnership for Internationalizing Curriculum (EPIC) program at Stanford University.  This competitive fellowship, funded by the Department of Education Title VI program, brings together five faculty members from Foothill College and four from the College of San Mateo to collaborate with colleagues at Stanford for one academic year.   The nine faculty Fellows will work on various projects aimed at internationalizing course curricula and producing innovative materials designed for community college classrooms.

Professor Roach submitted an application for a fellowship to design a course in which learners will be challenged to recognize local and global issues that complicate discovery, use, and creation of information, including economic, social, legal, and ethical aspects. Additionally, learners will examine their own information privilege, and investigate their own creation and use of information. Professor Roach will be collaborating with James T. Hamilton, Director, Stanford Journalism Program and Hearst Professor of Communication.

“I’m really looking forward to the EPIC fellowship. The opportunity to partner with Dr. Hamilton, whose explorations of decision making, the information lives of low-income individuals, and the impact of algorithms on search queries will greatly enhance the project, and enrich the course materials I develop for students at College of San Mateo,” said Professor Roach.

More information on this and other Global Studies community engagement activities is available at https://sgs.stanford.edu/programs-centers/community-engagement.

Two full time librarians have joined the College of the Canyons Library.  Erin Barnthouse is Collections Development and Technical and Online Services Librarian.  Galeen Roe is Public Services - Outreach Librarian.  Both started on August 14, 2015.

First off, I want to thank everyone for being so kind and welcoming to me in my first few weeks in this role.  I’ve enjoyed getting to meet some of you in person and have met many more of you over the phone.  My goal in taking over from Sarah Raley has been not to disturb any existing processes she put in place right away, so I appreciate patience from each of you as I learn how we collectively do business together. That said, we are offering several new vendors/products this fall.  See the program announcements on the consortium website https://cclibrarians.org/consortium/ for details.  These new offers include: New Offers

• Browzine:  Browzine allows library patrons to browse, read and follow thousands of scholarly journals available from their library on Android or iOS mobile devices.
• Mango Languages:  Mango Languages is an online language learning system teaching practical conversation skills for real communication. Mango Languages focuses primarily on oral skills and offers a basic introduction to a range of more than 60 languages.
• Nature Publishing Group:  Nature, Scientific American, and the journals published by Nature Publishing Group (NPG) may be of interest to any college wanting to bolster its holdings in the STEM area, as these journals are perhaps the highest-rated journals in Science.  The CCL offer allows institutions to have access to almost 80 of these journals at a heavily discounted rate.
• SIPX (from Proquest): ProQuest SIPX is a new technology for managing and sharing digital course materials with proven savings benefits to academic institutions and their students, and flexible engagement models geared to specific campus needs. SIPX can help instructors and bookstore staff save students 20 to 35% off their course packs by ensuring that they benefit from existing library subscriptions.
• YBP:  YBP (now owned by EBSCO) is a major suppliers of books and non-print materials to libraries throughout the world, and the largest supplier of firm-order books to academic libraries in North America.  Note that if your library  participated in the TitleSource3 program from Baker & Taylor offered through the CCLC, you will need to find a new book jobber as B&T is discontinuing TitleSource after December 31, 2015.  Please contact me if I can help.

Please let me know if there are other products or vendors you’d like me to approach in the coming weeks! Renewals All renewal forms will be posted on the procurement site, hopefully by September 30th (or very soon after).  You will receive an email when your renewal form is ready. New products can be added using the procurement system and renewal forms can be submitted electronically if your college allows an order to be placed without a signature.  Alternately, there are order forms included in the program announcements which are posted on the consortium website. Order forms can be faxed along with your renewal form.   The deadline for getting these renewal forms back to the CCLC office will be Monday, November 16th. Please let me know if I can ever be of assistance to you! James Wiser Library Consortium Director Community College League of California 2017 O Street Sacramento, CA 95811 310.463.9312 jwiser@ccleague.org

REPORT: ELECTRONIC ACCESS TO RESOURCES (CCL-EAR) COMMITTEE
Darryl Swarm (Feather River College): Committee Chair

The CCL-EAR Committee held their first meeting of the new academic year on September 11, 2015. This meeting took place virtually in teleconference format. We welcomed our newly-designated chair elect, Norman Buchwald, to our group and also enjoyed working with our witty new consortium director, James Wiser. One of our new members, April Cunningham from Palomar College, joined in on the meeting as our new member from Palomar College representing the San Diego region. Our group initially discussed progress on the eBook deselection project. We would like to remind everyone that the deselected materials will be deactivated by EBSCO by the end of December, 2015, so if any of the participating libraries have these records active in their respective library catalogs, the links will eventually not present the related eBook content to your patrons in their search process. Fortunately, this may lead your patron to seek reference consultation and potentially open up a world of more relevant materials for their use. In any event, this serves as a reminder to please remove those records from your catalog as appropriate. There may or may not be an easy way for you to do this, so it would be advisable to look into possibilities now if you have not done so already. We have received generous thanks and accolades for the deselection team on the tremendous effort that was invested in completing this project. It was a concerted effort from a team of highly qualified professional peer librarians volunteering their time and energy to this important project. CCLEAR committee teams are ambitious with a remarkable workload and eagerly working on reviews and previews for LexisNexis, Mango Languages, Medcom RN, Swank Digital, JSGTOR, Discovery Services (not a small task), and Slack Digital Repository. 

Additional new products being considered include Gale Primary Source Collection, IBIS World (market research data),  ACLS Humanities eBooks, Data-Planet (statistical data repository), BrowZine (mobile-friendly journal content) and perhaps a comparison of few promising agricultural resources (please let us know if these products are of any particular interest to your library). In other news, reportedly ABC-CLIO has decided to pull out of several aggregators, including EBSCOhost. Approximately 4,000 titles could be lost from these platforms, including those titles published by Greenwood and Praeger. A preview of the ABC-CLIO platform (including potential implications for their withdrawal from popular platforms) is of potential interest since this could be an important consideration for their popular culture content for community colleges. Recent reviews by the committee are available at https://cclibrarians.org/consortium/reviews and we would appreciate your feedback and perspective. Many of our recent reviews feature an interactive component where you can post comments, feedback, and share your experiences with the database. Please send suggestions for any electronic databases you would like the CCL-EAR Committee to consider to Darryl Swarm (dswarm@frc.edu) or to your regional representative (CCL-EAR Committee Roster https://cclibrarians.org/committees/electronic-access-and-resources-committee#members). If you would like to attend any of our virtual or in-person meetings as a guest, please contact me, Darryl Swarm (dswarm@frc.edu), and I will forward you the details.

The Helen Miller Bailey Library at East Los Angeles College is excited to welcome new Instruction and Outreach librarians Nathasha Alvarez and Rita Suarez.

Expect to hear awesome things from this dynamic duo!

Findings from Ex Libris User Research.  May 2015

http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/files/Products/Primo/HowDoUsersSearchandDiscover.pdf

 Users come to the library for a variety of reasons. For example, they may be seeking a specific item, be it a book, an article, an audio recording, or another type of material; they may need information for an undergraduate course assignment or a research project; perhaps they would like to obtain a quick overview of a specific topic; or they may want to find the latest publications in a specific field. Such research needs are often interconnected. A user might look up a specific article and then go on to seek an overview of the topic covered in the article.

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This paper describes the findings and conclusions from a recent Ex Libris user study and discusses how the conclusions apply to library discovery systems. The study included analyses of users’ search logs and qualitative surveys conducted via workshops with librarians and interviews of users at different academic levels and from various countries and disciplines.

How to Evaluate Your Web Pages for Accessibility,  by George Williams Chronicle of Higher Education, July 17, 2015

http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/how-to-evaluate-your-web-pages-for-accessibility/60485?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

This article provides links to resources and tools addressing accessibility in digital environments.

September 7, 2015:

“The ALA lost control of its Facebook page over the weekend so this seems like a pretty good time to review IT Security! Any size small or midsized organization is difficult, if not impossible to secure. It's very easy to overlook things and leave ourselves vulnerable to things like this.”

[complete article available at: http://lisnews.org/node/43629/ ]

The original Internet Trends report released at the end of May by Kleiner Perkins has 196 slides, and is available here: http://www.kpcb.com/internet-trends

Tech Crunch TC has released a digest of the the most important insights From Mary Meeker’s 2015 Internet Trends Report. The digest has a selection of 24 highlights for the most critical data points and includes added analysis. | TechCrunch

http://techcrunch.com/gallery/best-of-meeker/?ncid=tcdaily

Los Angeles Mission College is happy to announce that they have hired Ashley Sparks as their new Reference/Instructional librarian. Ashley has worked extensively as an adjunct librarian in the Los Angeles Community College District for the past three years. She started her new position Spring 2015 semester.

Los Angeles Southwest College Library has a new Dean, Dr. Allison Moore.  Dr. Moore is currently LASC Academic Senate President and is stepping down from those duties to assume responsibility for the LASC Library among other departments as the new Dean of Academic Affairs.

The newly remodeled LASC Library opened on February 2, 2015 in a three story facility.  We are excited to be out of the temporary library and operating in our new space.

Tim Ream was recently hired as a new full-time Librarian with LA Southwest College. Prior to arriving at LASC, Tim worked as the Emerging Technology Librarian at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science for the past 3 years. He also worked as an Adjunct Librarian at Irvine Valley College since 2010. Before becoming a Librarian, Tim worked in the legal and non-profit fields in the IT and web development fields. Mr. Ream received his B.A. in Political Science from UCLA, and his MLIS from San Jose State University. Recently, Tim also completed a Post-Master’s Certificate in Emerging Technologies and Digital Libraries from San Jose State University in 2014. When not working, Mr. Ream enjoys spending time with this wife May and new daughter Emily. From time-to-time he can also be found trying out different spicy foods and attempting to surf.

Since the new library opened last year, there have been many special events held at the library.

The most recent was the lecture by Marissa Pantastico-Caldas of LATTC’s Science Department on May 20, 2015, titled: Endangered Wonder Drugs and the Rise of the Superbugs: why and What Now

The LTCC Library is a recipient of the ALA/NEH  grant titled “Latino Americans: 500 Years of History”. Project Scholar, Dr. Albert Ponce, LTCC Professor of History, Political Science & Ethnic Studies is kicking off the year-long program on Columbus Day,  leading discussion on the PBS film called “Foreigners in Their Own Land” to an audience of community members, faculty and students. LTCC Library Director, Lisa Foley, is the Project Director. She applied for this grant just featuring the rich history and culture of Latinos just as our college applies to become a Hispanic-Serving Institution in the coming year.

In August, Reginald Constant joined the staff of Laney College as Public Services Librarian.  Reginald has extensive experience in a variety of library settings, including community college, public and school libraries.

Jordan Yee is working as interim Media / Instruction Librarian at Laney College.  The library hopes to fill the permanent position in the fall.

Report from John Taylor, Director Academic Resource Center:

I’ve been the new Director here at Lassen College about 8 months now, and we’ve begun making changes that the public can see. And as you know the changes they can’t see often take more effort.  We are still in the midst of a remodel, so the Library is camped out in the Learning Center again this semester. Contractors are moving slower than we had hoped, so our October timeline looks unlikely; I’m hoping for January 2016!  On the positive side, we are looking at brand new furniture and technology in the ARC when it moves with 2 study rooms and a café area. For a school as small as Lassen, that’s an accomplishment! The Library and Learning Center were administratively merged and we are now known as the Academic Resource Center (ARC). We are rebranding our image with new graphics focusing on: The arc of your education; where will it take you? We have built a new website available at ARC.lassencollege.edu, which simplifies the navigation to get to the resources. It’s based on libguides, and makes use of the tabs to keep most everything present on the first page. We’ll be building research guides as the year progresses. In fact, I’ll likely be asking many of you if we can use the ones you have built as a template (to copy and edit for local content).

A well-funded two year trial in New York City is providing a path to being online that skips the onus of waiting for a seat at the library or hugging a coffee cup for hours at Starbucks just to get a Wi-Fi password. New York Public Library patrons without broadband internet in the home [certainly true for many California Community College students] can now check out a pocket-size Wi-Fi personal hot spot for as long as six months with the option to renew.

 http://civichall.org/civicist/lending-wi-fi-program-chips-away-at-digital-divide-but-for-how-long/

Welcome back to another academic year. I trust your library doors are open and the students are taking advantage of your programs and services. The Council of Chief Librarians has been working throughout the summer to plan for the coming year with programs and retreats. I will continue to serve as the interim president through December 2015 and am happy to report that Meghan Chen, from Mt. San Antonio College, was elected president and she will begin in the new year. Look for great work from Meghan.

We have also elected two new regional representatives. Carol Hutte, from Chaffey College, who will represent the Desert Region and Alicia Virtue, from Santa Rosa Junior College, who represents the Northwest Region. Please thank both those individuals for being willing to serve and represent your colleges and extend a special thank you to Peter Sezzi and Pearl Ly for their service as outgoing board members. If you’re not certain what region your college is located, we have the complete list at http://cclccc.org/board.html.

During our board retreat this summer, we continued to review and refine our strategic plan. In this work, we have removed some elements and clarified others. We remain committed to our three goals and will focus on different strategies within each.

• Strengthen the capacity of California community college libraries to support student success through the attainment of information literacy.
• Leverage access to information and technology tools to support student learning.
• Promote libraries as dynamic spaces where students congregate to creatively engage with their peers, information, and instruction.

The CCL president serves as a liaison to the Telecommunications & Technology Advisory Committee (TTAC) of the Chancellor’s Office and to the California Community Colleges Chief Instructional Officers (CCCCIO). Both are great opportunities for the library voice to be heard at the highest level of the state and our participation has helped to carry forward much of our programming and services. The most recent CCCCIO executive board meeting was attended by Meghan Chen. Here are a few highlights from that meeting.

The Academic Senate (ASCCC) reported on an Instructional Design and Innovation Institute to take place in Riverside in January 2016). There will also be a Curriculum Institute on Nov. 13 (Solano) and Nov. 14 (Mt. SAC) that will have a strand for curriculum specialists.

The Online Education Initiative (OEI) reported that NetTutor has been implemented for online tutoring. They will continue to look for methods to address academic integrity and test proctoring tool through an RFP in Spring 2016. Districts are continuing faculty-to-faculty conversations about Canvas adoption and a critical mass will indicate a possibility for the CCC Tech Center to adopt it as a resource for the state following the current funding. The Exchange Consortium has been pushed to Fall 2016 due to figuring out admissions, fees, and other pieces.

CCC Systems Budget for 2016-17 will reach the Board of Governors for approval later in September. Key issues include funding for growth (likely at 3%), general operating expenses (including covering employer contributions to STRS and PERS; low COLA), funds to hire full-time faculty, Basic Skills program, Strong Work Force recommendations, and possibly some one-time funds. And the

Chancellor's Office (CCCCO) reported on the curriculum approval and changes to the inventory system. The Program and Course Approval Handbook (PCAH) is still under revision and should be ready for next summer. Programs of interest moving forward include the bachelor degrees at CCCs, AB 288 Dual Enrollment Partnership Pathways, inmate education, and the Institutional Effectiveness Partnership Initiative (IEPI).

Your CCL Executive Board will be meeting next on October 22nd in Sacramento. If you have any suggestions, questions, or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact me at neufeld@sbcc.edu.

Kenley Neufeld

Library 2.015  -- Technology Tops Agenda for Library 2.015 Worldwide Virtual Conference.http://www.library20.com/2015 The agenda for the Library 2.015 Worldwide Virtual Conference  is taking shape with three keynote sessions confirmed, as well as insightful presentations by distinguished speakers and information professionals from around the world. The fifth annual conference about the future of libraries will be held on October 20, 2015, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7), and is free to attend

The 2015-2016 CCL Membership invoices ... yours is sitting somewhere in your Library!  Hopefully, it flew right into your mailbox and you "passed the baton" right over to the Library's business clerk to start the payment process!

And, yes, still just $150.00.

Haven't seen it?  It went to whoever is listed as your library's contact person in the online CCL Directory (unless I just happened to know about a recent change).  If you need another copy, contact me via email and I can send a pdf copy.

Problem on your campus getting it paid?  Contact me -- maybe I can help fix that or find someone else who can help.

Congrats to Barstow CC -- they got the first check in!  I'm sending them a reward.

There are now 114 of us (WELCOME, Clovis CC!) -- we do amazing and powerful things through CCL!  Let's make this a great year!

Merritt College is back in their newly renovated library.  Two hourly librarians are sharing head librarian responsibilities this year:  Nghiem Thai (who is also the library’s Principal Library Technician) and Louise Roberts.

For the first time in many years, all four Peralta libraries are offering Saturday hours this fall.

We are so pleased to welcome Walter Butler as the newest full time librarian at Pasadena City College!

Walter joins us with a breadth of educational and professional experiences. He received a BA in Theatre from Temple University, a Professional Clear Single Subject CLAD Teaching Credential for Social Sciences from Cal State LA, a MLIS from UCLA - specializing in Archival Studies, and a Teacher Librarian Credential from Azusa Pacific University.

In addition to working with us at PCC as an adjunct librarian, Walter worked full time for Pasadena Unified School District as a Teacher Librarian (Blair High School and Marshall Fundamental) and served as a Library Director for a private college, as well as an archivist and student outreach coordinator.  At UCLA, he spearheaded and coordinated the effort to get the Rae Lee Siporin Library – which is their LGBT special collection -- integrated into the University Library system, making an invisible collection visible and more accessible to the UCLA community at large.

At Pasadena City College, Walter will be primarily focusing on public services and instruction — areas where his expertise, interests and talents will greatly enhance the services and programming provided to students, as well as the PCC community as a whole. Welcome Walter!

We are happy to welcome two new librarians to our department.

Lisa Valdez is one of two newly appointed librarians at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, CA.  Lisa will serve mainly as an Outreach Librarian on and off campus, as well as around the community.  Lisa graduated from UCLA with masters in Information and Library Science and received her undergrad in Anthropology.  Lisa’s objective as a librarian is to make the most basic information and resources accessible to underserved students.  She is dedicated to education and developing life-long learning skills within the communities in which she lives and works.  Lisa is married with 2 children in college.  See loves to roller-skate, line dance, travel, and read in her garden.

Mario Macías hails from Guadalajara, México. He emigrated to East Los Angeles when he was ten years old. He attended Grinnell College thanks to the Posse Foundation Scholarship as a Los Angeles Posse Scholar. Mario then went on to complete the master of Library and Information Science program at the University of Washington. During his two years in the Pacific Northwest, he worked as a reference assistant at both Seattle Central College and North Seattle College. Returning to California, Mario served as a reference and instruction librarian at Cal State Northridge. His professional interests include information literacy, instructional design, educational technology, and critical pedagogy, among others.

“Report Urges New Accreditor for California’s Community College”, by Eric Kelderman in the Chronicle of Higher Education 

“Many lawmakers and others are calling for accreditors to get tougher with higher education and not let poor-performing colleges off the hook.

But a new report says the California community-college system needs a new, kinder, gentler accreditor. The system commissioned the report in the wake of a bruising legal battle over the accreditation of the City College of San Francisco.”

http://chronicle.com/article/Report-Urges-New-Accreditor/232741/?cid=cc&utm_source=cc&utm_medium=en

Antonio López has joined the Sacramento City College Library as a tenure-track Public Services Librarian. Antonio previously served as a librarian at Sacramento Public Library, Humboldt State University, Occidental College and the Chiapas campus of Tecnológico de Monterrey.

In July, Kevin Flash became Dean, Learning Resources, overseeing the Library, Instructional Media, Distance Education, Tutorial Services, Writing Center, and Media Services. Kevin previously held positions in Los Rios Community College District Office, The Ohio State University, and OCLC.

Along with the other Los Rios colleges, in May Sacramento City College migrated from Millennium to Sierra, and in August we launched a rebranded and customized version of EBSCO Discovery Service that is intended to replace the Online Public Access Catalog as the primary way its users access local collections. Features include an integrated reserves search form, on-page item requests, texting of call numbers, and tips that display when users employ certain problematic search strategies.

SRJC Libraries Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Success Stories

Between September 15 and October 15, the SRJC Libraries recognize National Hispanic Heritage Month showcasing the contributions Latinos have made to American society and culture. SRJC benefits from the contributions of many Latinos. Each year, the library shares the inspirational success stories of those who model achievement, persistence, and triumph over adversity to attain their goals.

This year the moving and heartwarming stories of Yolanda Garcia, Malena Hernandez Legorreta, Tony Ruiz, Glen Salazar, and Alma Sanchez are shared.  These inspiring stories show the importance of libraries and higher education and highlight the key role that educators, libraries, and college services have had in helping them reach their academic goals.  Explore these new narratives added to the SRJC Success Stories and see all 22 by visiting the library web site at http://www.santarosa.edu/library/features/srjcsuccessstories.html

ALA/NEA Grant Awarded to SRJC Librarian Nancy Persons
SRJC Librarian Nancy Persons and SRJC Instructor Laura Larque have been awarded a $3,000 grant from the American Library Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities for the program Latino Americans: 500 Years of History. The program is part of an NEH initiative, The Common Good: The Humanities in the Public Square, which is designed to demonstrate the critical role humanities scholarship can play in our public life. A series of events showcasing the journeys and experiences of Latino Americans will be held at SRJC libraries during the 2015-2016 academic year to give the college a chance to engage with local community and participate in development of a deeper understanding of the plight of the undocumented among us.   Portions of the grant will fund related topical books and videos to be added to the library collections.

Eve-Marie Miller Joins SRJC Library Faculty
SRJC welcomes Eve-Marie Miller as librarian and instructor in the 2015-16 academic year. Eve-Marie brings extensive experience in academic reference and information literacy instruction and possess an impressive range of knowledge and experience in library technology development, system-wide collection development purchasing strategies, and electronic resource acquisitions.  Eve-Marie has held leadership positions at Innovative Interfaces, EBSCO Publishing, OCLC, and the California State University Chancellor’s Office, among others. Welcome, Eve!

ACRL Information Literacy Instruction Chapters Published by SRJC Library Faculty
SRJC librarians, Smita Avasthi and Sami Lange published chapters in the newly released ACRL book, Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts: Lesson Plans for Librarians.  According to ACRL, “This a collection designed by instruction librarians to promote critical thinking and engaged learning. It provides teaching librarians detailed, ready-to-use, and easily adaptable lesson ideas to help students understand and be transformed by information literacy threshold concepts.  The lessons in this book, created by teaching librarians across the country, are categorized according to the six information literacy frames identified in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education. (2015).” Available in print and e-book editions. Order your copy: http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=11557

Skyline College Library welcomes a new Director of the Learning Commons beginning September 21st.

Dr. Pearl Ly earned a Joint Doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of California, San Diego/California State University San Marcos, a Master of Library and Information Sciences and a Masters of Latin American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Ly comes to Skyline College from the College of Marin where she served as the Director, Library Services. She has also served as an Access Services & Emerging Technologies Librarian and Interim Assistant Dean, Library Services at Pasadena City College, a Natural Sciences Librarian at California State University San Marcos and an Associate Librarian at Mira Costa College. Dr. Ly has published several articles in refereed and non-refereed publications and has presented at numerous conferences.

New Journal:   Announcing Volume I, Issue 1 of The Political Librarian, our new journal at the intersection local libraries, public policy and tax policy. We are interested in featuring new voices and lines of inquiry, and are interested in publishing opinion pieces, white papers, and peer reviewed works.

You are invited to contribute to Vol 2 Issue 1 for a March 2016 publication date. The  Political Librarian is dedicated to expanding the discussion of, promoting research on, and helping to  re-envision locally focused advocacy, policy, and funding issues for libraries.

http://everylibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Sept-2015-Issue-1.pdf