Academic Libraries for Incarcerated Students (ALIS) by Cheryl Stewart Coastline College

California has a total of 35 state-run prisons where thousands of students are enrolled in college classes. These California Community College AA degree candidates have neither Internet access nor academic libraryresources. What’s more, California’s incarcerated college degree-seeking students are positioned to graduate without completing a research paper and without information literacy skills.

ALIS is a group of California librarians from colleges that serve incarcerated students.  We all share a common challenge in that prisoners do not have access to the Internet.  We have all developed strategies to help students with their research projects and homework needs.  While these strategies provide some support for students, they do not enable the students to develop important information literacy skills.  Schools providing face to face instruction, such as College of the Redwoods, are required by ACCJC standards to provide “comparable” library services to students at all locations, which cannot be provided under the current systems available to us.

Therefore, the mission of ALIS is to improve library support and to provide information literacy instruction to our incarcerated students.  To achieve these goals, we share information and strategies and unite to work with vendors to develop delivery solutions.  We are currently researching an Internet-in-a-Box product; working with a vendor to deliver some content on a memory stick/flash drive; exploring possible funding sources; and developing a relationship with the CDCR Library Coordinator.

There will be an ALIS meeting at 6:00 pm on March 3 (location to be determined later) during the Annual Deans and Directors Meeting.  Anyone may attend this meeting.  For information about ALIS, contact Cheryl Stewart (cstewart@coastline.edu) or Lisa Foley (Foley@ltcc.edu).

Librarians interested in ALIS should contact Cheryl Stewart (cstewart@coastline.edu) or Lisa Foley (Foley@ltcc.edu).

With the following information:

Name:_____________________________

Institution: _________________________

Email : ____________________________

Inmate Education Listserv http://listserv.cccnext.net/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=INMATE-ED

There is a new listserv for inmate education from the Chancellor’s office, and having librarians on this listserv would raise awareness among faculty teaching inmates.

CCCCO has a Web page for Inmate and Re-Entry Education at: http://goo.gl/ICGsdb

reported by Dan Crump

The ASCCC just completed a new event---Innovative Design and Innovation---breakouts  covered a wide variety of topics---innovative ways to offer tutoring, online education, course offerings in different modes, and open educational resources.   The focus of the Academic Academy in March will be on student equity.  I advise you to inquire about the use of Student Equity funds to attend.  For more information, go to http://asccc.org/calendar/list/events.

The ASCCC is providing faculty leadership and recommendations on a wide variety of issues, including bachelors degrees, C-ID (course identification project), dual enrollment in high schools, Workforce Task Force and the Accreditation Task Force.

In honor of her tremendous generosity, Allan Hancock College dedicated a Lola Ardelia Dority Reading Area (in the library) on Friday, January 29, 2016. Through financial donations and her passion for books and reading, Ms. Dority has changed the lives of many AHC students (and their children) and is helping to grow a new generation of readers in northern Santa Barbara county.  Her interest in encouraging reading led her to contribute tens of thousands of dollars to build two book collections -- children's literature and popular reading. In addition she established an endowment fund exceeding $100,000 to supplement her ongoing annual donations. And that’s not all!  She has also worked countless hours in the library to organize the college’s Hancock Family Estate Archive historical archives.

The two book collections, tiny and aging 10 years ago, are now “big and beautiful” and attract considerable attention and circulation! Students have commented on beginning to love reading after finding books in these collections and others tell us that they read to their children because of the children’s collection.

A familiar face in central coast libraries, Ms. Dority retired from professional librarianship after a number of years at the Vandenberg Base Library. Prior to that, she had the opportunity to work at libraries in Texas, Alaska, and Germany.

The California State Library has, through Califa, licensed BeeLine Reader for CA libraries for 2 years!

This 2015 winner of The Tech Awards’ Microsoft Education Award, BeeLine Reader is a browser plugin for Firefox and Chrome web browsers that helps people read on-screen more easily and offers benefits for various types of readers including skilled readers, early readers, vision-impaired, dyslexic, and readers with other challenges.

The plugin uses color gradients that guide your eyes<http://califa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/beeline-gradient.jpg> from the end of one line to the beginning of the next

For more information about BeeLine Reader, see www.beelinereader.com<http://www.beelinereader.com>.

In January, Sonia Robles joined the staff as hourly librarian.  (Sonia also started working at Laney College this semester.)  Sonia started out as a community college student (Mira Costa College) and has chosen to return to her educational roots.  She holds a bachelor’s degree in Latino Studies/International Relations from SFSU and, after several years working in the non-profit sector, earned an MLIS from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Registration is now open for the California Conference on Library Instruction (CCLI) at the University of San Francisco on April 29!

Between the release of ACRL's new Framework, #critlib discussions taking off on Twitter, a growing focus on digital literacy, and calls for tossing out the "one-shot," academic librarians are once again reframing our work in different and new ways. Join us for our 2016 program: “Reframing Instruction: Looking at What We Do with a New Lens.”

Our invited keynote speakers, Jessica Critten and Kevin Seeber, will be presenting on “My Lens, Myself: A Hermeneutics of Information Literacy.” Additional presentations include:

• "Creating a First Year Information Literacy Program Collaboratively at Fresno State" - Raymond Pun & Amanda Dinscore
• “Rethinking Online Learning Using the ACRL’s New Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education” - Jenaya Webb & Monique Flaccavento
• “Focusing on Student Mindsets: Developing Information Literacy Dispositions in First-Year Calculus” - Kaila Bussert
• “Integrating within the LMS: A New Lens for Library Guides” - Oscar Giurcovich & Francesca Marineo
• “Reframing Backward Design: How to Revive Library Instruction for Student Success” - Faith Bradham
• “Reframing Scholarly ‘Conversation’ as Argument” - Sharon Radcliff

It’s going to be a great day! Please visit our website for more details about the program and our presenters! http://www.cclibinstruction.org/

Interested in joining us? Early-bird pricing closes March 29! Register through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ccli-2016-reframing-instruction-looking-at-what-we-do-with-a-new-lens-tickets-20628588664

James Wiser, Library Consortium Director jwiser@ccleague.org

All fall new and renewal orders were placed with vendors by the first week of December, so if you are having difficulty accessing a renewing resource or a new resource you’ve ordered, please let me know.  Of the new vendor partnerships we launched last fall, two offers in particular were very popular within our group: the Chronicle of Higher Education and Nature Publishing Group.  It’s never too late to place an order for any resource, as we almost always can prorate a new subscription to align with the CCLC term, so if you’re interested in pricing for any of the fall offers, check the library consortium’s web site.

Renewal order forms for the spring renewals will hopefully be available in the procurement system no later than March 1, with a deadline of returning them on May 13th.  May 13th will also be the initial cut-off date for placing new orders, too.  In the coming weeks, be on the lookout for new offers from Kanopy (streaming video), Choice Reviews Online, Ovid, and Rittenhouse.  As always, if there’s something you’re interested in having the consortium explore, please let me know.

I’m looking forward to meeting many of you for the first time at this year’s Deans’ and Directors’ meeting.  See you in Sacramento!

Library operations moved back into the remodeled main library building for Winter Quarter. The $12.2  million remodel was funded by bond initiative and took over a year to complete. The response from students and staff has been very positive. We set an all-time record of close to 9,000 visits during the first week of classes. The design goals were a brighter, more attractive appearance, more comfortable and varied seating/studying options, an increase in the number and upgrades to group study rooms, enhanced instructional/programming spaces and the ever popular faster wifi and more electrical outlets!

Take a look at additional photos and student reactions at the Library’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/De-Anza-College-Library-117060828327466/

Tom Dolan

After a two-year hiatus to retool its curriculum, the Diablo Valley College Library Technology program is re-starting in mid-2016 with a cohort of students currently employed at Oakland Unified School District.  The college library is looking for dedicated, creative and knowledgeable instructors to teach one or more courses in the library technology career education program.  The program trains library support staff through a comprehensive curriculum on library services and technology.  The teaching positions are on a part-time and hourly basis.  Instruction will begin summer or fall 2016.

Darryl Swarm (Feather River College): Committee Chair

The CCL-EAR Committee held their virtual teleconference meeting on December 4, 2015. Members of the Discovery Systems review team provided an update on the upcoming Discovery Systems meeting scheduled for February 5, 2016 in Sacramento. The meeting will include a general discussion of the five leading discovery systems, survey results from the CCL-EAR discovery systems survey, and an interactive panel discussion where facilitators and panel members will enlighten attendees and CCL-EAR members with meaningful insight. Carefully selected librarians with a deeper level of experience with each respective discovery system will serve on the panel to provide perspective on key topics such as implementation, customization, functionality, and librarian and user experience with the interface.

The consortium director, James Wiser, brought up a long-standing issue with some of the historic reviews becoming outdated as changes occur in the products reviewed. The group decided to provide a disclaimer about the time-sensitive nature of our reviews and to include instructions on how interested parties can comment with updates on product improvements (or even deleterious changes that may help others learn more about particular concerns).

The review of web-based language products (Mango Languages, Rosetta and Duo Lingo) is now complete and published on the CCL-EAR website. Review teams for LexisNexis, Swank Digital, and JSTOR in the completion stages in their reviews. Please check our website for reviews that are of interest to you: https://cclibrarians.org/consortium/reviews. Our reviews feature an interactive component where you can post comments, feedback, and share your experiences with the database and we would appreciate your feedback.

New products being considered for the consortium include: Rittenhouse ebooks, Mometrix Test Preparation and Kanopy Streaming Service. Our consortium director expects these to be available in the Spring.   Ideas on any electronic databases you would like the CCL-EAR Committee to consider reviewing may be sent to the CCL-EAR chair 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 Darryl Swarm (dswarm@frc.edu) and he will forward you the details.

The newly renovated Foothill College Library opened its doors on January 4th, just in time for the start of the winter quarter. Staff enjoyed seeing students walk in the first week - their faces lit up, then they took photos and texted their friends! Featuring an information commons with state-of-the art technology, ten group study rooms, and improved individual study areas (including vintage study carrels preserved from the old library), the library has been described as the campus living room. With its mix of old and new, the renovated building is already a gathering place where students come together for a sense of community and to discover new things.

“Bots, Block Chain, and Beacons: Hot Topics at LITA Tech Trends Panel | ALA Midwinter 2016”

Read the Library Journal report from Hot Topics at:  http://goo.gl/OYHKla

The Ebook Glass Is Half Full. http://goo.gl/daj1cM

A recap of the Digital Content Working Group discussion at Midwinter focused on the shifting state of ebooks in libraries.

By Robert C. Maier | January 29, 2016

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Read Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits highlights in Cognotes now!

Catch up on the timely conversations, speakers and authors, exhibits news, “News You Can Use” policy and research updates, award ceremonies, and fun events enjoyed by nearly 12,000 librarians, paraprofessionals, exhibitors, authors, teachers, and friends at the 2016 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Boston.

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 2015 UX Year in Review

by Raluca Budiu on January 10, 2016

Topics:

Summary: Test your usability knowledge by taking the quiz.

This week we’re debuting a new feature, intended to exercise your UX skills. All the answers can be found in articles that we published in the past year.

1. What is the difference between legibility and readability?
   1. No difference: they mean the same thing.
   2. Legibility refers to how well people can actually see the different characters and symbols in text, whereas readability refers to how complicated the words in your text are.
   3. Readability refers to how well people can actually see the different characters and symbols in text, whereas legibility refers to how complicated the words in your text are.
   4. Legibility refers to how well people can actually see the different characters and symbols in text, whereas readability refers to whether people can read out loud the text on the page.

Complete the quiz with readily available answers here: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-quiz/

Electronic Frontier Foundation

By Maira Sutton | December 8, 2015

“The Internet is a diverse ecosystem of private and public stakeholders. By excluding a large sector of communities—like security researchers, artists, libraries, and user rights groups—trade negotiators skewed the priorities of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) towards major tech companies and copyright industries that have a strong interest in maintaining and expanding their monopolies of digital services and content. Negotiated in secret for several years with overwhelming influence from powerful multinational corporate interests, it's no wonder that its provisions do little to nothing to protect our rights online or our autonomy over our own devices. For example, everything in the TPP that increases corporate rights and interests is binding, whereas every provision that is meant to protect the public interest is non-binding and is susceptible to get bulldozed by efforts to protect corporations.”

READ MORE… https://goo.gl/V5hDJE

Laney Library is cleaning house in preparation for a much anticipated move to a new Library & Learning Resource Center.  The new facility is contingent on passage of the state facilities bond in November.  However, the college has the go-ahead to get started on refining plans for the new building with a program consultant so that construction can get started as soon as the bond is approved.  The library staff has received significant support from non-library faculty who see the facility as pivotal to the success of students.

Greetings!

2016 promises to be yet another exciting year of opportunities for the Council of Chief Librarians to advance student learning and success. I am honored to continue CCL’s work as its next president. I think I speak for the organization in my sincere appreciation to Kenley Neufeld for his years of service as President and who served as the Interim President since April 2015.

So, what’s exciting for CCL this year? Just a few highlights for now …

Advocacy for a centralized library automation system (or ILS) – by now, you may have heard that the Governor’s proposed budget for 2016-17 did not include funds for the ILS plus discovery tool nor the rest of the technology budget requested by the Chancellor’s Office. As a top priority for our organization, we have already begun to advocate for inclusion of this vital technology package in the May Revise through conversations with the Community College League of California (CCLC), the Chief Instruction Officers (CCCCIO), and the Chancellor’s Office Technology, Research, and Information Systems Division. Lots of things can happen on the long road to the May Revise, and we will work together to advance this important budget item for CCC students’ equitable access to libraries and their absolutely crucial resources for lifelong learning and success.

The Chancellor’s Office has announced myriad opportunities for colleges to promote student success. Student Equity Plans were due in late December 2015, a very challenging timeline for many of us, and some of us might not have had proposals in those plans. Despair not: while it may seem that the door to SEP allocations is closed, there may very well be unspent funds or projects that fail to launch. Libraries should be ready with proposals to pounce on those unspent dollars. To that end, CCL Board will continue to share examples of funded projects, by college and amount, very shortly. We will also have continuous discussions about how to assess and report on these projects’ progress and effectiveness, including data collection and reinforcing the message that libraries promote student learning and success.

Basic Skills Initiative, in many forms, sharpens its focus on how colleges are to improve students’ progression through basic skills courses. The funded amount is $110 million in the next two years with $20 million ongoing. In 2015-16, $70 million will be used to fund various projects, and of note is another $60 million for Student Outcomes Transformation, which is one-time money, to be spread across three years. The focal points of this grant include “more, faster, and better” in getting students through the educational pipeline more efficiently and incorporating evidence based practices (The RP Group) – including contextualization, acceleration, among others. Colleges have to include at least two in their applications, but two key criteria must be addressed: scalability (of existing practices) and expansion (increased number of students served). Applications are due March 25^th with funding amounts up to $1.5 million per application.  There will be four workshops offered through the Chancellor’s Office’s  Institutional Effectiveness Division in February and early March, and colleges are encouraged to send teams. More information here.

Bachelor’s Degree Programs in CCC: 12 colleges have been approved for their Substantive Change Proposal (Antelope, Bakersfield, Cypress, Feather River, Foothill, Mira Costa, Modesto, Rio Hondo, San Diego Mesa, Santa Ana, Santa Monica, and Skyline; Shasta, Solano, and WLA in progress.) Each college will receive $350,000, with latitude to spend the money, which can and should include the library. North Orange County CCD has been approved to administer the BA degree program implementation.

What else, you ask? More information to come as it becomes available … and CCL will be keeping its “eye” on any apertures for library involvement and advocacy.

• Military Credit
• Incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students
• Dual Enrollment
• Online Education Initiative – library presence
• Career and Technical Education (“Doing What Matters”) initiatives

I’m looking forward to seeing you at the annual Deans and Directors’ Meeting on March 3-4, 2016, at the Holiday Inn Sacramento. The CCL Board is proud to welcome new library leaders at the inaugural Library Management 101 on Thursday morning, and an announcement about the Library Leadership Scholarship will be made at D&D. The annual meeting has been a source of inspiration and new energy for my professional work, and this year’s promises to be fantastic!

Got questions or comments? Please contact me at mchen@mtsac.edu.

Sincerely,

Meghan Chen

reported by Dan Crump

As chair of the advisory committee, I will be calling the committee together real soon.  One of the immediate items is to give a final review to the Annual Data Survey and then send it out to the field.  Kirsten Corbin, reading faculty from American River College, is on an IJE (Interjurisdictional Exchange) this semester with the Chancellor’s Office to work on basic skills issues.  Vice Chancellor Pam Walker has notified me that she will also be the advisory committee’s contact with the Chancellor’s Office while Dean LeBaron Woodyard is finalizing his doctorate work.

Gabriella Lopez joins the LATTC Library Staff

Gabriella Lopez was born in Hungary and moved to the United States in 1996. She obtained her Master's of Library and Information Science degree from San Jose State University in 2002. Following her graduation, she worked as a contract librarian at Toyota Motor Sales, USA. While working at Toyota, Gabriella continued gaining more experience in community college librarianship by completing the Los Angeles Community College District's Project MATCH internship at West Los Angeles College. She also worked part-time at Santa Monica College, Cerritos College, West Los Angeles College and Los Angeles Southwest College.

Most recently, she was a full time, tenured faculty member at East Los Angeles College. She oversaw the library operations at East Los Angeles College, South Gate Educational Center as the South Gate librarian. As a solo librarian at the satellite campus, Gabriella was involved handling a variety of library functions including cataloging, collection development, reference and instruction. She taught orientations and presented workshops on a regular basis. She also taught the Library Science 101 course at the ELAC main campus, at South Gate and online.

Gabriella is certified in Etudes online teaching and she also completed the Cyber Teacher's Institute: Classic Cyber Teachers' Institute and Humanizing Your Online class courses.

In February of each year Los Angeles Trade Technical College celebrates African-American Heritage Month.  Hallowed Grounds: Sites of African American Memories is the 2016 theme chosen by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. The National Park Service has designated more than 25 national sites, including the home of the father of black history, Dr. Carter G. Woodson. Notable events for the LATTC Community include: Martin Luther King speaking at several churches nearby the LATTC Campus, Eldridge Cleaver holding a fund-raising rally at Trade in the 70’s and President Obama speaking at Trade in 2008 and 2014.

Will this be the banner year for memberships? 

Could be!  Yes, 99 colleges have sent in payments, and I know that there will be more!

Not sure if your college has paid?  Check on the CCL website or email me (gregg.atkins@wavecable.com).  Need another copy of the invoice?  Just let me know.

Thanks to the 99!  What a great vote of confidence in your organization

Susan Walsh, Director of Learning Resources, has been appointed as Acting President at Merced. She also served as an interim Vice President of Instruction last year for five months. Susan Walsh has been at Merced for 30+ years.

Merritt Library will soon be advertising for a full-time, permanent Principal Library Technician position.  Former Head Librarian Timothy Hackett has applied for sabbatical leave to work on a project entitled “Library Equity Access: Information Intermediation and Instruction” during the Fall 2016 semester.

·      --In honor of African American History Month, librarians Myla Stokes Kelley and Pamela Perry have created an online feature of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" (http://library.miracosta.edu/Lift_Every_Voice).

·      --An extensive collaboration between librarians Richard Ma and Myla Stokes Kelley and many others at the college, including a number of staff and students, has resulted in eight exhibits produced to celebrate the Lunar New Year, which are on display in the Oceanside Campus Library throughout the month of February. Details about numerous campus events in February, and an extensive online exhibit may be viewed at: http://library.miracosta.edu/lunar_new_year_2016. The on campus exhibit photos show how a full-size Moon Gate was constructed by our Design 100 students, and the Dragon and Lantern installations are equally stunning.

--On November 19^th Glorian Sipman, MiraCosta College Library and Jacque Dessina, Tidewater Community College Libraries shared their experiences with implementing and managing virtual reference services through QuestionPoint. The Webinar recording is available at: http://goo.gl/yVE2Cd

NY Times, January 8, 2016

New York Public Library releases 180,000 Images in High Resolution: Historic Photographs, Maps, Letters and more…

Most items in the public-domain release have already been visible at the library’s digital collections portal. The difference is that the highest-quality files will now be available for free and immediate download, along with the programming interfaces, known as APIs, that allow developers to use them more easily.

Read article: http://goo.gl/vaVLcl

by Pat James

Welcome to month 24 of the California Community Colleges (CCC) Online Education Initiative (OEI). This month’s blog will give you some detailed updates on the initiative. It is also dedicated to the people who are making it work, one day, one step, one solution at a time. As I continue my efforts to keep you all informed about the OEI, I am reminded that there’s more to information than the “update” elements. When a project of this magnitude is underway, documenting the fundamental nature of the activity may be just as important as documenting the activity itself. I started this blog to document not only the advancing of the work, but to keep track of how the people involved are doing and what we are learning as we progress in this process of designing and implementing the enormous goals of this project.

Read more in TechEDge...

From the Bell Tower

By Steven Bell on December 3, 2015 3 Comments

“Adopting new technologies is now commonplace for academic librarians, but one emerging technology stands to change both how libraries function and the symbolic nature of their collections.

New construction of academic library buildings or major renovation projects are infrequent, but there are several each year. Eventually, to maintain the viability of the library as an educational facility, the need for a major renovation or new facility comes to the attention of the trustees. As each new library project is planned, how and where to store print collections will be a major consideration for each institution. There are trade-offs to be made between providing access to print and the usability of the facility. Do you want to offer people the opportunity to browse books or choose from more study rooms, an innovation center, or some new programmatic space we have yet to imagine? While you might think the obvious choice is traditional open-stack shelving, there are two factors that may explain why the vast majority of future library building and renovation projects will opt for automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS).”

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From the Bell Tower

By Steven Bell on December 3, 2015 3 Comments

“Adopting new technologies is now commonplace for academic librarians, but one emerging technology stands to change both how libraries function and the symbolic nature of their collections.

New construction of academic library buildings or major renovation projects are infrequent, but there are several each year. Eventually, to maintain the viability of the library as an educational facility, the need for a major renovation or new facility comes to the attention of the trustees. As each new library project is planned, how and where to store print collections will be a major consideration for each institution. There are trade-offs to be made between providing access to print and the usability of the facility. Do you want to offer people the opportunity to browse books or choose from more study rooms, an innovation center, or some new programmatic space we have yet to imagine? While you might think the obvious choice is traditional open-stack shelving, there are two factors that may explain why the vast majority of future library building and renovation projects will opt for automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS).”

Read more…

From the Bell Tower

By Steven Bell on December 3, 2015 3 Comments

“Adopting new technologies is now commonplace for academic librarians, but one emerging technology stands to change both how libraries function and the symbolic nature of their collections.

New construction of academic library buildings or major renovation projects are infrequent, but there are several each year. Eventually, to maintain the viability of the library as an educational facility, the need for a major renovation or new facility comes to the attention of the trustees. As each new library project is planned, how and where to store print collections will be a major consideration for each institution. There are trade-offs to be made between providing access to print and the usability of the facility. Do you want to offer people the opportunity to browse books or choose from more study rooms, an innovation center, or some new programmatic space we have yet to imagine? While you might think the obvious choice is traditional open-stack shelving, there are two factors that may explain why the vast majority of future library building and renovation projects will opt for automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS).”

Read more…

From the Bell Tower

By Steven Bell on December 3, 2015 3 Comments

“Adopting new technologies is now commonplace for academic librarians, but one emerging technology stands to change both how libraries function and the symbolic nature of their collections.

New construction of academic library buildings or major renovation projects are infrequent, but there are several each year. Eventually, to maintain the viability of the library as an educational facility, the need for a major renovation or new facility comes to the attention of the trustees. As each new library project is planned, how and where to store print collections will be a major consideration for each institution. There are trade-offs to be made between providing access to print and the usability of the facility. Do you want to offer people the opportunity to browse books or choose from more study rooms, an innovation center, or some new programmatic space we have yet to imagine? While you might think the obvious choice is traditional open-stack shelving, there are two factors that may explain why the vast majority of future library building and renovation projects will opt for automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS).”

http://goo.gl/yiTkTP

reported by Dan Crump

I am a member of the OEI Steering Committee, appointed by the ASCCC.  I am also a member of the OEI Library Services Workgroup.  Under the leadership of Jory Hadsell, OEI Chief Academic Officer, the workgroup is starting work on incorporating library services and standards in the OEI.  Other members of the workgroup include Will Breitbach (Shasta College), Nancy McEnery (Napa Valley College) and Alicia Virtue (Santa Rosa Junior College).  I have also been working with Barbara Illowsky, Dean of Basic Skills and OER, in the collection of modules to aid online learning, especially in the area of library skills.  An update on Canvas, six colleges are currently using the course management systems adopted by OEI and more than 40 other colleges have expressed interest.   Check www.ccconlineed.org for more info.

Fall was a busy time as we hosted the War Comes Home: The Legacy exhibit. The exhibition, with historic and contemporary letters, offered an intimate perspective into the thoughts and emotions of veterans and their families upon a soldier’s homecoming. The panel exhibit included an audio tour, which was very popular.

A program of events was built around the exhibit. These included a presentation event with guest author Andrew Carroll and professor John Benitz, the kick-off for our first One Campus/One Book with the book Operation Homecoming, student veterans’ panel discussion, art exhibition, and barbeque. Almost 1,000 students participated in at least one event.  The feedback has been very positive and we believe that it has helped validate our veterans’ experiences as well as informed other students of the contributions and sacrifices of those who have served in the military.

• Ellen Carey and Elizabeth Bowman have been invited to share their poster: My Library: Demonstrating Library Value While Building Confident Developmental English Library Users as part of the program for the 2016 CARL Conference, What We Talk About When We Talk About Value.  The conference will be held March 31 - April 2, 2016 in Costa Mesa at Westin South Park Plaza. Additional information on keynote speakers, registration costs, and hotel rates can be found on the 2014 CARLConference website at http://conf2016.carl-acrl.org/ .

Poster sessions will take place between 5:30-7pm on Thursday, March 31, 2016 during the opening reception.  T

• This spring we plan to survey students with TATIL, the THRESHOLD ACHIEVEMENT Test for Information Literacy <https://thresholdachievement.com>.  We will have free access as part of piloting the test.  Contact Ellen Carey @ eecarey@pipeline.sbcc.edu for more information

• We are also piloting the use of OCLC's GreenGlass <http://www.oclc.org/sustainable-collections.en.html> to analyze our collection (associated with a big weeding project). contact Sally Chuah @ sschuach@pipeline.sbcc.edu for more information.

• We are so invaluably aided by the addition of PT Library Resident (funded by our Friends of the Library), a recent MLS/MLIS graduate who works with us for a year, rotating through all of the library's operations <http://library.sbcc.edu/blog/2011/01/25/residency-at-luria-library>.

• We are in the process of drafting a Disaster Response and Recovery plan, in a workshop with other regional institutions, funded by California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) and conducted by California Preservation Program for Napa, Riverside, and Santa Barbara Counties/California Heritage Protection Project Survey of Cultural and Historic Resources (CHR).

• Our Outreach Librarian (adjunct librarian) funded by Equity funds this year will work closely with faculty and staff in outreach and teaching efforts related to equity issues to serve these target populations: Low income, Hispanic, Foster Youth, African-Americans

• Santa Rosa Junior College is hosting a monthly series for discussion on ACRL’s framework. The next meeting will be on Friday Feb 5 from 10:30-11:30. This month, the frame under discussion is “Authority is Contextual and Constructed.” Librarians can participate remotely. Please contact Smita Avasthi (savasthi@santarosa.edu, 707-524-1839) if you would like to attend this discussion.

• Jessica Harris was welcomed to Santa Rosa as a tenure-track Public Services Librarian in Fall 2016. Born in Canada, Jessica is an East Coast transplant who loves to travel anywhere new when she gets the chance (last up, cloud forests in Costa Rica; next up, New Zealand, tips welcome!) She pursued her love for writing at Penn State, where she obtained her BA in English, and went on to Simmons College for an MA in Library Science. She has worked with ESL populations in Boston’s inner city schools, managed the GSLIS Tech Lab at Simmons College, taught English in Japan via the JET Program, served patrons at Harvard University's Cabot Library, and for a good stint, put her library research skills to practice as Director of Research Services at Bain Capital. For the last three years, she has taught online and F2F information literacy courses as an adjunct instructor at Santa Rosa Junior College and currently covers a sabbatical position as Librarian at Diablo Valley College. Coming full circle to SRJC where her duties will include website coordination, public service and information literacy instruction.  She continues to be thrilled by the adventure of each day in the community college life!
• SRJC has three outreach/exhibit news items:

Item 1)  Currently on Exhibit: The New Two:

Selections from the Permanent Art Collections of Mahoney Library

Herold Mahoney Library Gallery

January 25 – February 25, 2016

The Mahoney Library Art Lending Collection: The Mahoney Library has collected small framed original artwork from California artists to be loaned to SRJC Petaluma faculty and staff for display in their offices, hallways and shared public spaces on the campus for the duration of one year. The goal of the lending collection is to introduce students and the Petaluma community to a wide range of artists, art mediums and art movements through a closer and more personal look at original artwork.

The Mahoney Library Permanent Art Collection: The permanent art collection will be shown throughout the Petaluma campus and the Mahoney Library and will be on permanent display. This collection features artworks created by artists with an affiliation with the Santa Rosa Junior College District.

Item 2)  Ruff, ruff. Ibarra, the therapy dog will be available for drop in therapy visits throughout the Spring semester at the Santa Rosa Junior College, Petaluma campus. Although Ibarra will be 'searchable' in the lending collection he will be available without reservations! See the SRJC Library website for details.

Item 3)  Love Your Library month has returned to Santa Rosa Junior College. With 'blind date' books and a student poetry contest, the SRJC community is sure to feel the love from SRJC Libraries.

Patricia Saulsbury is retiring July 1^st of this year. She served on the CCL-EAR Committee or six years and was the regional rep for two different areas, She chaired the CCL EAR Committee e-book selection committee. During her tenure on CCL-EAR they developed much of the protocol for writing the reviews as they currently exist and decided which products to recommend for purchase by the Consortium. She will have worked at Sierra College for 19 years and developed the collection from the ground up at the Nevada County Campus of Sierra College. Patricia has no solid plans for retirement yet, other than to see what it is like to not work full-time.

When asked about her plans she replied

“Like most of us, I have been working, parenting, and going to school since I was young - so I have had my nose to the grindstone. Coming up for air will be really interesting! I do want to snorkel more and visit the Canadian Rockies.”

The Skyline College Learning Commons was remodeled over Winter Break to improve physical spaces for students and staff. Main updates included:

Learning Center

·         All student, tutor, and staff chairs were replaced

·         A large conference room was converted into two rooms for Supplemental Instruction (SI)

·         The Honors Transfer Program was relocated into the Learning Center area

Library

·         New, ergonomic workspaces created in library circulation and administration area

·         Textbook reserve collection was relocated closer to check out desk

The 10 Most-Popular Wired Campus Articles of 2015

Wired Campus is the technology blog for the Chronicle of higher Education.

“Looking Back at the Year in Ed Tech…While massive open online courses have largely fallen out of the national headlines, three of the top 10 articles in 2015 involved MOOCs (in one case, charting their fade from prominence).

But the big winner with readers this past year had nothing to do with the classroom. It tracked a popular online joke about what not to say to an academic on a date.”

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Here are the top 10 headlines from our tech blog:

1. How to Ruin a Date With an Academic in 5 Words

2. The MOOC Hype Fades, in 3 Charts

3. MIT Professor’s Blog Comment Sets Off Debate Over Nerds and Male Privilege

4. Professors Know About High-Tech Teaching Methods, but Few Use Them

5. App Gives Students an Incentive to Keep Their Phones Locked in Class

6. Another Use for Yik Yak on Campus? Cheating on Exams

7. As Coursera Evolves, Colleges Stay On and Investors Buy In

8. 3 Things Academic Leaders Believe About Online Education

9. Meet the New, Self-Appointed MOOC Accreditors: Google and Instagram

10. How an App Helps Low-Income Students by Turning College Life Into a Game

Pew Research Center After the June 2013 leaks by government contractor Edward Snowden about National Security Agency surveillance of Americans’ online and phone communications, Pew Research Center began an in-depth exploration of people’s views and behaviors related to privacy. Our recent report about how Americans think about privacy and sharing personal information was a capstone of this two-and-a-half-year effort that examined how people viewed not only government surveillance but also commercial transactions involving the capture of personal information. Here are some of the key findings that emerged from this work:

1. 1.     Fully 91% of adults agree or strongly agree that consumers have lost control of how personal information is collected and used by companies.
2. 2.     Americans express a consistent lack of confidence about the security of everyday communication channels and the organizations that control them
3. For most Americans who are making decisions about sharing their information in return for a product, service or other benefit, the context and conditions of the transactions matter.
4. Some 74% say it is “very important” to them that they be in control of who can get information about them, and 65% say it is “very important” to them to control what information is collected about them.

  Continue Reading here: http://goo.gl/7NMVLQ

Two articles appeared recently, one from Library Journal and the other in Publisher’s Weekly addressing important concepts surrounding the provision of Reference Services and the Reference “Desk”

“Making “Desk” a Four Letter Word | Backtalk Library Journal

by Maxine Bleiweis on October 20, 2015 http://goo.gl/Utjbv6

and

“Where Reference Fits in the Modern Library; Todays Reference User Wants Help Doing Things Rather Than Finding Things”

by Brien Kenney | Publisher’s Weekly Sept. 11, 2015 http://goo.gl/8Iu9HS

(At the January 2016 Meeting in Ontario CA)

Bicycle Diaries  by David Byrne — Matt Magnuson (West Hills – Coalinga)

Pacific by Simon Winchester – James Wiser (CC Libraries Consortium)

The Barbarian Nurseries: A Novel by Hector Tobar — Mark Stengel (Cuesta)

The Lost History of Christianity  by Philip Jenkins-– Gregg Atkins (CCL Executive Director)

Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf – Johanna Bowen (CCL Outlook, Web, Directory)

Radiance by Catherynne Valente -– Kenley Neufeld (Santa Barbara City College)

The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt–- Pearl Ly (Skyline)

M Train by Patti Smith  -– Doug Achterman (Gavilan)

Carl Maxey: A Fighting Life   by Jim Kersher –- Evelyn Lord  (Laney)

Applied Minds: How Engineers Think  by Guru Madhavan –- Paula Paggi (L. A. Pierce)

The Martian  by Andy Weir –- Alicia Virtue (Santa Rosa Junior College)

Uncovering Happiness: Overcoming Depression with Mindfulness and Self-Compassion by Elisha Goldstein –- Darryl Swarm (Feather River)

 Murder at Hatfield House  by Amanda Carmack  -– Dan Crump (American River)

Avenue of Mysteries  by John Irving  -– Meghan Chen (Mt San Antonio)

What Does The Future Hold For the World’s Largest Online Encyclopedia?

 From Scientific American http://goo.gl/eI8O24

It must be difficult for the roughly half a billion people who visit Wikipedia every month to remember a world without the free online encyclopedia. Since co-founders Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger launched Wikipedia on January 15, 2001, the site has grown into a behemoth of information with about 35 million articles and 30 million images available in nearly 300 different languages. The English-language Wikipedia site alone features more than five million articles.

Read more…http://goo.gl/eI8O24