Thursday

Library Management 101: A workshop for new Deans, Directors and Department Chairs

• Responding to feedback for professional development support from last year's annual meeting, CCL developed a workshop to support new library leaders.
• Report from Heather Dodge, Berkeley City College on the Workshop

Meredith Farkas, Portland Community College – “Building A Culture of Assessment: What I’ve Learned From Research, Trial, And A Lot Of Error”

• CCL Strategic Plan and Hot Topics: Report on Statewide ILS Proposal
• Regional Table Discussion Notes: Desert Region, East Central Region, Los Angeles Region, Northeast Region, Northwest Region, San Diego Region, West Central Region

Friday

• CCL President's Welcome
• Scott Lee, Antelope Valley – Analysis of two CCL Information Literacy Surveys
• Dan Crump, American River – Future of Open Educational Resources(OER) in California
• James Wiser, CC Consortium
• Gary Bird, CCCCO Technology Unit
• Kirsten Corbin, CCCCO Instruction Unit
• Larry Galizio – President CC League
• Irene Malmgren – President of CIO’s group
• Keynote Speaker -- Julie Todaro -- ALA President Elect “From Now On: Higher Education Community College, Libraries and Library Services” Dr. Todaro’s detailed, extensive PowerPoint presention at the meeting is not available for posting here. She made these points:

Libraries today are moving from WHAT WE PROVIDE to WHY WE MATTER
(moving into the arena of affecting how we are perceived)
We need to persuade our constituents and our funding stream with DATA.
Identify what our institution defines as "success" and link our activities which support these elements.
Her survey of CCL membership concerns yielded two top issues:  Staffing and Funding

• CCL President’s Concluding Words

“A Really Nice Spot’: Evaluating Place, Space, and Technology in Academic Libraries.”  By Michael J. Khoo, Lily Rozaklis, Catherine Hall, and Diana Kusunoki in College and Research Libraries http://crl.acrl.org/content/77/1/51.full.pdf+html   “This article describes a qualitative mixed-method study of students’ perceptions of place and space in an academic library. The approach is informed by Scott Bennett’s model of library design, which posits a shift from a ‘book-centered’ to a technology supported ‘learning centered’ paradigm of library space. Two surveys gathered data on (a) students’ perceptions of places in an academic library, and (b) on occupancy rates in the same library. When triangulated, the results identified two distinct and contrasting models of place: a more traditional model based on individual study near stacks of books, and an emergent technologically-supported group study model. The results suggest that academic libraries should develop new metrics to measure library place and space in settings of technologically-supported group work.”

ALA Annual Conference 2016 will include a CJCLS stand alone sponsored program for the first time in several years.  The program, "Academic Libraries and Open Educational Resources : Developing Partnerships" is scheduled for Saturday morning, June 25, 8:30-10:00.  If you are planning to attend please mark “planned attendance” on your ALA Conference Schedule and encourage others you know who are attending to do so as well.

This session, featuring Heather Blicher of Northern Virginia Community College; Jeremy Smith of University of Massachusetts Amherst; and John Schoppert of Columbia Gorge Community College, will be a can't miss, valuable presentation

A significant number of publications outside of North America do not capitalize internet. Among them are The Economist, the Financial Times, The Times, the Guardian, the Observer,^[12] and the BBC,^[13] a. Wired News, an American news source, adopted the lower-case spelling in 2004.^[14] Around April 2010, CNN shifted its house style to adopt the lowercase spelling.
The Associated Press,^[15] announced that the June 1 2016 AP stylebook will no longer capitalize "internet."

On behalf of the Council of Chief Librarians (CCL) Executive Board, I am pleased to announce the winners of the first CCL Library Leadership Scholarships:

• Elizabeth Bowman, Library Director at Santa Barbara City College, for the ACRL/Harvard Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians
• Anthony Costa, Coordinator of Library Services at the Centers at City College of San Francisco, for the ALA Leading to the Future Institute
• Peter Hepburn, Head Librarian at College of the Canyons, for ACCCA Admin 101

The purpose of the California Community College Council of Chief Librarians (CCL) Library Leadership Scholarship is to encourage and support the leadership development of community college library leaders. The CCL Library Leadership Scholarship subsidizes the attendance for a library leader to be an active participant in a leadership training, institute, or seminar.

All three awardees demonstrated a strong commitment to a career in community college library leadership as well as proven leadership potential. Congratulations to these deserving scholarship recipients. We look forward to hearing about their experiences in a future CCL Outlook article and encourage others to apply in the future.

This semester City College of San Francisco expects to complete hiring of a new Dean of Instructional Support and Library.  In other news, the CCSF Library received $90,000 in Equity funds for textbook reserves.

Cheryl Stewart Retires:

I am retiring from Coastline Community College on April 30, 2016.  I was the first, and only, librarian at Coastline and was responsible for establishing Coastline’s Online Library in 1999.  Coastline – once the “college without walls” and now the “college without borders” – was established in 1976 to explore non-traditional distributed education delivery modes.  In 1999, over 50% of Coastline’s students were distance learners and ACCJC determined it was time for the college to have its own library.  Since Coastline did not have a central campus, it was decided that it would have an online library.  I have loved the challenges and the opportunities the online library provided during my 17 years of service.  I was able to chair CCL EAR in the early 2000s and serve as Academic Senate for 2 years.

My final contribution to California community college libraries is Academic Libraries for Incarcerated Students (ALIS).  I am indebted to Lisa Foley, director of Lake Tahoe CC library.  I believe ALIS will grow as the number of community colleges serving students in corrections institutions grows.  We need to provide adequate and appropriate library services and resources to incarcerated students and yet the impediments appear to be nearly insurmountable.  In the short time that ALIS librarians have been meeting, we have accomplished quite a bit and are moving aggressively to enact some strategies that will enable librarians to serve all of their students!

I thank the Council of Chief Librarians and CCL EAR for providing me with the tools and resources I needed to survive at the beginning and to thrive throughout my tenure at Coastline. I am proud and grateful to have been associated with so many wonderful library leaders over the years.

In my retirement, I plan to research my family history; get my garage under control; install and maintain my drought-tolerant native yards; take art classes; workout at the gym every weekday morning; have exciting adventures with the grandkids; volunteer for a worthy cause; go to movies during the week; spend more time with friends and family; make bread, sauerkraut, cheese, and other foods from scratch; work part-time in college libraries from time to time; and, finally, take advantage of opportunities to discover new things, develop new talents, and laugh a lot!

Director Lorrita Ford was interviewed by KQED News in San Francisco for the article “What Colleges Can Gain by Adding Makerspaces to Their Libraries”

http://goo.gl/nLcL8K

All spring renewal order forms have been created in the CCLC procurement system and are available for you to download, sign, make corrections (if any), and return.  Please note that the deadline for returning these forms to the League office is May 13, 2016.  Renewals are not conveyed to vendors automatically; while I will send reminders to those colleges for whom I have not received forms, after May 13th I will begin working with vendors on contracts and if your form was not sent to the League office I will not be renewing your library’s databases.  If you have difficulty accessing or printing out your renewal forms, please let me know and I’ll be happy to help.

The offers for the spring term are updated and are live on the Consortium web site.  Note that the deadline for placing any new orders is also May 13th, though we can usually prorate any new subscription to align with the League’s contract term.

As always, if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions for possible new database offers, please contact me.  Have a great last few weeks of your Spring semester!

Respectfully submitted,

James

Contra Costa College Library recently implemented a program to circulate 30 laptops.  Judy Flum reports that that the process they created is going very smoothly and she is willing to share.

Diablo Valley College Library received an innovation grant from the Contra Costa District to implement QuestionPoint, an expansion of the library’s online reference service which previously was offered only during regular library hours.  Contra Costa College and City College of San Francisco are also implementing QuestionPoint.

The CCL-EAR Committee recently met via teleconference on March 7, 2016. The committee discussed potentially updating the review/preview format and ideas for improving the existing website. There was also a discussion on the ambitious work of the discovery systems team. A recent Discovery Systems Forum was facilitated by the committee’s discovery team on February 5, 2016 in Sacramento. Five leading discovery systems were examined through an informed, interactive panel discussion among other activities. Please see the associated article in this issue of Outlook for a more detailed summary of this well-attended meeting.

For those interested in the newspaper, magazine and journal content database Lexis-Nexis, a preview is now complete and published on the consortium website. Other recently-published reviews include Mango Languages, Rosetta Stone, Oxford English Online, Salem Online, Grove Art & Music, a Science Comparison review and Ambrose Video.

Reviews in progress and close to completion include: Swank Digital, JSTOR, and the aforementioned Discovery Systems comparison.

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.

The next CCL-EAR Committee Meeting will be held April 27 and 28 in Irvine. If you would like to attend as a guest, please contact Darryl Swarm (dswarm@frc.edu) for details on attending. As always, suggestions for any electronic databases on which you would like to see a review may be sent 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).

As part of the Emerging Tech Trends series, this March 1^st webinar continued the exploration into emerging technology trends and tipping points, and how these trends are re-shaping library services. David Lee King on March 1, 2016 expertly guided participants through examples of how you might incorporate these emerging trends into your library. Some of the topics covered that were not covered in previous webinars include: grassroots technology (makerspaces & digital media labs), payment systems (credit and debit card processing, new forms of payment), drones, mobile apps, web & social media changes and how to tell the difference between a trend and a fad.

To view the webinar tape: https://vimeo.com/157360227

Access the archived versions the day following Infopeople webinars at:  http://infopeople.org/training/view/webinar/archived

How does the CCC System wrap its arms around issues and develop solutions?  One major arena is Consultation Council -- chaired by the Chancellor, and made up of representatives from every major group in the CCC family of constituents (CEOs, Trustees, all faculty groups, CIOs, the League, etc., etc.).  The CIOs act on behalf of the library community.

At the March meeting, two Major Issues suddenly made incredible progress, and a 3rd is of note:

1) A working group (faculty and administrators) presented a proposal on changing the 50% Law to include counselors, LIBRARIANS, tutors.  It would become something like the 55% Law or the 59% Law or some such (no number actually identified).  The proposal was VERY WELL RECEIVED by all groups there.  This looks like it may very well happen!!  Proposal is below and very clearly states that counselors, librarians, etc. are a real part of instruction in the 21st Century institution:

http://extranet.cccco.edu/Portals/1/ExecutiveOffice/Consultation/2016_agendas/March/Attachment-Regulations-Workgroup-Proposal.pdf

2) The CEOs presented on accreditation:

a) the Feds have given AACJC 6 months (letter came out 3/15) to make substantial changes in culture and operation ... or their authority is revoked!!  CEOs (who are in fact the legal connection to the AACJC, and not the CCCCO) are forming a Task Force to work with AACJC to develop necessary changes.  If changes not made, the Feds will be the ones  accrediting the CCC institutions!!  CEOs vow not to let that happen, and believe AACJC now ready to cooperate and collaborate.

*** Read an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education, March 18, 2016, on the topic of Accreditation for CC’s at: http://goo.gl/0LcIk2

b) almost 100 CEOs have indicated that they want a new accreditation structure which "aligns higher education into a natural framework" -- that means  having the cc's in with the 4 year schools.  CEOs (again, they have the legal authority to act) have formed a 2nd TF to begin to identify other options; they have opened conversations with WASC Senior (which is responding very cautiously) and will also talk to Northwest.  CCCCO understands that it has, at best, an observer's role.  Consultation Council parties were very supportive, but want to be kept VERY informed.

3) DSPS $ formula changes were presented; would take effect in 2019-20.  About 40-50 schools would need to increase local contributions to maintain current level of spending; CCCCO reminded group that DSPS funding is a supplement to aid local budgets so that local colleges are better able to meet Federal mandates.

CCL recognizes the value of Consultation Council, and I will now be attending these meetings regularly as an observer.  With issues like these being discussed, and with a new Chancellor coming on board soon, attendance at Consultation Council by keeps CCL aware of and right in the thick of things.

Gregg T. Atkins, CCL Executive Director

Laney College is hiring a new Librarian to replace Ann Buchalter who transferred to College of Alameda last year.  Hiring is also underway for a new Principal Library Technician to replace Shaunt Hamstra who moved on to a position at CSU – East Bay last May.

In March, librarians at Laney College met with English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Department Chair David Mitchell to discuss strategies for improving teaching effectiveness when working with non-native speakers in orientations and at the reference desk.

Laney College participated as a venue in Oakland for the “Neighborhoods Coming Together: Quilts Around Oakland,” a citywide exhibition of more than 100 quilts. The New York Times article “Quilts with a Sense of Place, Stitched in Oakland” http://goo.gl/YHLZw4 explains the exhibition.

Library 2.016: Library as Classroom -- Free and Online

June 15, 2016 -- 12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. PDT

http://www.library20.com/classroom

The San Jose State University School of Information (iSchool) is proud to offer professional development opportunities like the Library 2.0 Worldwide Virtual Conference series as part of our lifelong learning solutions. The next Library 2.016 mini-conference will take place on Wednesday, June 15, 2016, from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. U.S. Pacific Daylight Time (click here for your time zone) via Blackboard Collaborate web conferencing.

Moderated by Dr. Michael Stephens, iSchool assistant professor, the June conference will open with a panel discussion on "Defining the Library as Classroom." For example, this classroom may include physical spaces for instruction and discovery, as well as online, multi-scale platforms aimed at social learning and participation. Registration is free, and all registrants will receive links to view the recorded sessions. Register today!

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

• Michael Casey, Information Technology Director, Gwinnett County Public Library, Georgia
• Brian Kenney, Director, White Plains Public Library, New York
• Joyce Valenza, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University School of Communication and Information, New Jersey
• Jessamyn West, Librarian and Community Technologist, Central Vermont
• Sean Casserley, County Librarian, Johnson County Library, Kansas

We invite you to share your ideas and experiences for using the library as a creative classroom and community learning space by submitting a presentation proposal. Presentations should be at least 15 minutes in length, and all sessions must be completed (including Q&A) within 25 minutes. Slots are limited, and may fill before the May 31, 2016 deadline for proposals.

The Library 2.0 Worldwide Virtual Conference series was co-founded in 2011 by the iSchool. The June “Library as Classroom” event is the second of three mini-conferences planned for this year. Please visit the conference website for more information and links to the presentation recordings from past events: http://www.library20.com/ 

Contact: Nicole Purviance, Director of Marketing and Communications nicole.purviance@sjsu.edu

School of Information, San Jose State University http://ischool.sjsu.edu

ANNUAL DATA SURVEY

The Survey is out!

Kirsten Corbin, Dean of Basic Skills and Special Programs at the Chancellor’s Office, reported to me that she sent out the Survey for 2014-15 (in an email) on March 15, with a due date of May 16.  The email message had a link to the actual survey for your college.  The email was sent to the contact designated for your college.  Kirsten and I used the list from last year and tried to verify that the contact names were still current.  I have heard back from most everyone---still waiting to hear from 13 colleges.  I have already sent several emails and will now start phoning.

If you have any questions, please contact me at crumpd@arc.losrios.edu

COLLEGE TEXTBOOK AFFORDABILTY ACT OF 2015 (AB 798)

Open Educational Resources (OER) are a frequent topic of discussion in community colleges these days, in part because of the work of the California Open Educational Resources Council (COERC), an intersegmental group of faculty created in response to SB 1052 (Steinberg, 2012). COERC is working to promote the use of OER by identifying resources for faculty who wish to adopt these materials in their classes and providing incentives to faculty to lower textbook costs.

AB 798 (Bonilla, 2015) created the OER Adoption Incentive Program to provide incentives and reward campus, staff, and faculty efforts to accelerate the adoption of open educational resources. The bill requires “ that specified moneys for the program be used by campuses to create and support faculty and staff professional development, open educational resource curation activities, curriculum modification, or technology support for faculty, staff, and students, as specified.”

The goal of the College Textbook Affordability Act of 2015 is to reduce the costs of course materials for California college students by encouraging faculty to accelerate the adoption of high-quality no-cost and low-cost course materials, especially Open Educational Resources. The legislative strategy will be implemented through the OER Adoption Incentive Program, which provides funding for faculty professional development focused on significantly lowering the cost of course materials for students while maintaining the quality of materials. As part of the legislation, the State of California has allocated $3 million for the program, and each California State University and California community college can request up to $50,000 for its campus OER program.  The amount is based on the number of class sections ---minimum of 10 and maximum of 50---that use OER materials.  Note: these have to be sections that are not currently using OER---each section must show a savings of at least 30% from the textbooks (based on college bookstore prices) used in the previous term.

For full details, colleges should review the legislation---www.leginfo.ca.gov  and search for Assembly Bill 798 in the current session.  The resources and support services on the California Open Online Library for Education website---www.COOL4Ed.org---include sample academic senate resolutions, sample templates for grant proposals, easy access and discovery of OER, and more.

Katie Coon Hamilton joins LACC Library Staff --Los Angeles City College has added a new full-time tenure-track faculty librarian position. Katie spent the last two years doing reference and instruction work for LACC as a part-time volunteer and adjunct librarian, and is now joining LACC full-time.

Katie received her BA from Barnard College with a major in Latin American Studies and received her Master’s Degree in Library & Information Science from Long Island University in 2013.

During college she worked with the Upward Bound program and following college she worked as a legal advocate and paralegal. While attending her master’s program she interned at Hunter College Library and began working for the publisher Springer (now known as SpringerNature) starting off with the licensing department, and then moved to the marketing department as an Account Development Specialist doing post-sales work to increase usage and ROI for Academic & Governmental libraries in Latin America & the Caribbean. Her main activities included assisting with implementation, discovery & access of e-resources; platform trainings (in-person & virtual); usage analytics; and marketing campaigns.

Katie, originally from the East Coast, is thrilled to be living in Los Angeles and working with the community at LACC. When not at the library, Katie enjoys hiking, gardening, reading with her cat, and going to flea markets.

Merritt College is in the process of hiring a new tenure-track Librarian.

More Professors Say Undergraduates Need to Hone Research Abilities, Survey Finds. Chronicle of Higher Education, April 4, 2016.

At:   http://goo.gl/CK9QIC

Summary: This latest edition of a survey that is conducted every three years found an uptick in faculty members who believe undergraduate students are arriving at college with inadequate research skills. Many faculty members believe their institution’s library plays a critical role in helping students develop those skills. Scholars increasingly see it as their responsibility to support their undergraduate students, with an emphasis on competencies and learning outcomes.

[Report from Ithaka US Faculty Survey http://www.sr.ithaka.org/publications/ithaka-sr-us-faculty-survey-2015/ ]

OCLC plans to develop a new version of FirstSearch with the full-featured searching of WorldCat required by many researchers and library staff. This search functionality will also be available to WorldCat Discovery subscribers. The new version of FirstSearch will have the same look and feel of today’s WorldCat Discovery, so gaining familiarity with WorldCat Discovery now will support a smooth transition to the new version of FirstSearch when it is released.

Attend this webinar for an introduction to WorldCat Discovery and guidance for setting up your library’s WorldCat Discovery site.

Register here http://goo.gl/IND6ka to attend the April 28 Webinar at [ 11:30am Pacific time]

In 2015, OCLC announced that WorldCat Discovery Services would replace FirstSearch at the end of the calendar year. The Discovery interface, similar to Open WorldCat, features a revamped design, faceted results, and improved listings of related editions and formats. However, it lacks a few advanced search functions available via the FirstSearch version. In response to complaints about these missing options, the retirement date for FirstSearch was extended to 2016.

This week it was announced that FirstSearch would continue into 2017, while work is done building a new platform to support full-featured searching. Since Worldcat Discovery will apparently also be enhanced with new capabilities, OCLC's prolonged development cycle and plans to maintain two product lines represents a substantial investment.

The New Media Consortium (NMC) and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) are jointly releasing the NMC Horizon Report > 2016 Higher Education Edition at the 2016 ELI Annual Meeting. This 13^th edition describes annual findings from the NMC Horizon Project, an ongoing research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in higher education.

The report identifies:

six Key Trends Accelerating Higher Education Technology Adoption ,

six Significant Challenges Impeding Higher Education Technology Adoption, and six Important Developments in Educational Technology across three adoption horizons spanning over the next one to five years, giving campus leaders, educational technologists, and faculty a valuable guide for strategic technology planning.

OPEN ACCESS: Introduction to OA Journal “Publications”  an Open Access Scholarly Publishing Journal by Alan Singleton -- distributed as email post to acrlframe@lists.ala.org   So how is OA doing and who is writing about it? Latest issue of Publications is now out. Open Access has been around for quite a time now, and it's appropriate that an OA journal on publishing continues to keep an eye on it. The latest issue of Publications: the journal of academic publishing and communication certainly does that with a couple of articles. And remember, they are all OA, and I give the links so you can go straight there and read them if you wish.   First up we have a review of the literature - what's it about and who's writing it (using Scopus as source). You will be shocked to know that the USA is the most prolific country, with over 30% of articles and UK trailing behind with about 13.4%. All other countries are, a bit, also-rans. No prizes for guessing the most prolific author - If I tell you his first name is Bo-Christer?... Steven Harnad comes in fourth.  http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/4/1/1/htm   And then we have an article looking more at content, at least as far as the Health Sciences are concerned, tracking what evidence has been found, and in what direction. Although most articles nowadays seem to start from the premise that OA is necessarily 'a good thing', and these are no exception, in the body of the article it is careful to point out where evidence is also either weak or contradictory. On citation impact, for example, it rather assumes OA is positive but points also to the caveats and studies by such as Phil Davis et al. http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/4/1/2/htm.   The history and rise of OA seems to have acquired its own mythology - since I was one of the people responsible for one of the very first substantial OA (not called that then) journals in the 1990s, and founded for very different reasons, it's all mildly amusing, but we have to live with it...   There is another pair of articles looking at Non-Native English Speakers publishing in English. As someone who has now edited or 'polished' getting on for 200 articles in English by Chinese researchers, I read these with interest. One is really based on a set of case studies, charting in detail the trials and tribulations of such researchers as they work their way through, and trying to draw some conclusions. Interestingly, he raises how some are questioning the fairness of these systems 'requiring' English/American English and wanting  to 'uncouple' the language from its native speakers, and talking, without irony, about the 'transformationalist framework' of that particular school of thought. http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/4/1/6/htm, http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/4/1/5/htm.   These days all major publishers will at least refer non-native speakers to places where they can get help. More may be needed, however, and James Cameron and Karen Englander, based partly on their own experience, make a call for more properly organized courses within universities, and outline the one in Mexico as an example. Given my own experience, I feel an editorial coming on... By the way, I do have an editorial in this issue, on a couple of aspects of one of my hobby-horses - peer review. http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/4/1/8/htm. For some reason it's not at the top of the contents list - as a new boy here I'll have to have a word with the publishers about that.We also have a bibliometric analysis of how co-authorship and exposure to 'international' journals e.g. those from USA and UK, can greatly assist visibility to authors from developing countries, in this case, specifically, Brazil - which may have wider implications for many other other countries. http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/4/1/4/htm.   Lastly, we have a piece which at first sight is less about academic publishing than creative writing - but it's interesting to see whether there is any crossover. This explores what it calls 'implicit collaboration'  or 'appropriation' in the context of the Creative Commons license. It recognizes that in some fields this would be considered 'plagiarism' but explores how creative works use and build on the works of others, sometimes with full acceptance, and sometimes controversially. It makes interesting and thought-provoking reading - although I'm left with the feeling that, in science, it's fine for someone to 'stand on the shoulders of giants' but it's not ok for them to falsely pretend to actually be that giant.. http://www.mdpi.com/2304-6775/4/1/7/htm.   That's all for now. Hope you enjoy at least browsing the articles. Hope to see you again in a few months.   Alan Singleton Editor-in-Chief Publications Email: singleton@mdpi.com

CHICAGO – The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is pleased to announce that Pearl Ly, director of the learning commons at Skyline College in San Bruno, California, has been chosen to receive the 2016 Community and Junior College Libraries Section (CJCLS) EBSCO Community College Learning Resources Leadership Award.

The $750 award and plaque, donated by EBSCO Information Services, will be presented to Ly at the 2016 ALA Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida.

“Dr. Ly stood out to the committee as an impressive example of early career leadership,” said award Co-Chairs Sarah North of Casper College and Julia Mielish of Wake Technical Community College. “Her promotion to administration has been underscored by significant achievements in both local and national spheres. She has demonstrated a strong dedication to leadership within the field, and has been a passionate library advocate. The committee is excited to offer her the CJCLS Leadership Award and looks forward to her future accomplishments.”

Ly received her master’s degrees in Library and Information Science and in Latin American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from the University of California, San Diego/California State University San Marcos.

For more information regarding the ACRL CJCLS EBSCO Community College Learning Resources Leadership Award, or a complete list of past recipients, please visit the awards section of the ACRL website.

Spring 2016 ACRL-Choice Webinars

ACRL-Choice webinars connect academic and research librarians with content and service providers, publishers, authors, and other experts. Since the launch of the program in 2013, thousands of participants have attended these free interactive webinars, with topics ranging from using social media to build library communities and the latest reference databases to open access.

The ACRL-Choice webinar series is an ongoing program, offering approximately thirty presentations each academic year. [After the programs have been presented recordings are available for viewing at the links below.]

This spring, ACRL-Choice webinars will present a cornucopia of subjects, including:

• March 10, 2:00p.m. Eastern: “Enhancing Research Through Government Documents” with Cathy Johnson, sponsored by ProQuest.
• March 15, 2:00p.m. Eastern: “Making Textbooks Affordable: How One University Library and One Scholarly Publisher Are Shaking Up Traditional Textbook Models” with Monica Metz-Wiseman and Mitch Moulton, sponsored by Springer Nature.
• March 22, 2:00p.m. Eastern: “Trends in Reference Publishing: Reference Modules,” with Dr. Geoffrey Smithers, sponsored by Elsevier.
• April 12, 2:00p.m. Eastern: “Subscription-To-Own Video Vs. PDA Specialty Collections: New Models For 2016,” with Keith Allen and Kyley Caldwell, sponsored by Alexander Street Press.
• April 21, 2:00p.m. Eastern: “Reimagining the Academic Library,” with David Lewis, sponsored by Rowman & Littlefield.

The ACRL-Choice webinar program offers an exceptional way for librarians to learn about new ideas, developments, and products, and to actively participate in discussions with companies that serve their markets, allowing sponsors to receive unfiltered feedback. Be sure to check out the complete library of ACRL-Choice webinars to date—with more added each month—on the Choice YouTube Channel.

For more information on ACRL-Choice webinars, please visit the Choice website. To discuss becoming an ACRL-Choice webinar sponsor, please contact Pam Marino at pmarino@ala-choice.org.

The Future of Academic Style: Why Citations Still Matter in the Age of Google, in Los Angeles Review of Books, by Kathleen Fitzpatrick

https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/the-future-of-academic-style-why-citations-still-matter-in-the-age-of-google

Excerpt:

“If anything, the reference system provided by a good citation style has come to matter even more in the age of the internet, rather than being rendered obsolete by the seemingly infinite networking and searchability of texts and other cultural resources online. Things migrate with great fluidity these days: that article might still be associated with the journal in which it was published, but it’s very likely been found through an online journal aggregator like JSTOR, and that might make a difference to a future researcher trying to track down a source. A book might be consulted not in print but through Google Books, and knowing that might provide information about anomalies in the source. A television episode watched through a streaming service like Netflix might have features that the originally aired version did not. And so on: publications and other cultural objects are no longer quite as fixed in format as they were, and their very malleability may heighten the importance for future scholars of knowing precisely which version today’s researcher consulted.”

In a year of turmoil − marked by campus protests, free-speech controversies, scandals involving academic research, questions about the value of a degree, and more − higher education continues to be on the defensive. Public scrutiny and the social-media environment mean college leaders must be prepared to respond to critics on and off campus, at any time. To help you stay ahead of the curve, we identify 10 national trends, along with case studies, expert commentary, and resources that will enable you to lead effectively in 2016.

http://chronicle.com/article/An-Executive-Summary/235454?cid=cp32

Infopeople continues to archive their free Webinars on a variety of topics at:

https://infopeople.org/training/view/webinar/archived

Unfortunately, the Training Material from Past Workshops section at:

https://infopeople.org/content/infopeople-training-material-past-workshops

has  been updated with only one addition since 2010. When asked about these omissions, the explanation given was:

“Please note that Infopeople’s Past Workshop Materials section contains links to resources from Infopeople on-ground training, not online course materials. Why no online course materials? According to Infopeople, the crux of the problem is that their online materials are all created and live in the Moodle Learning Management System environment. It is a fairly time-intensive process to extract materials from Moodle and then put them into a web-friendly format and post them to a publicly available website. They are looking at ways to expedite the process, and hope over the course of the next grant year to post more online course material to the Infopeople website.”

[Eileen OShea]

The Electronic Access and Resources Committee hosted a forum on discovery-layer tools. The event was held in Sacramento on February 4, 2016 and had approximately 23 attendees, including committee members. The day started with a review of the results from a survey that was conducted by subgroup of the CCL-EAR Committee. The survey was distributed to librarians at all 113 California community colleges and 107 complete responses were received. The vast majority of responses from librarians currently using a discovery tool in their library use either EBSCO’s EDS or OCLC’s Worldcat Local/Discovery. Only four total responses spoke to Innovative’s Encore, ProQuest/ExLibris’ Primo or ProQuest’s Summon.  

The bulk of the day featured presentations from five different libraries on their experience with different discovery solutions: Jeff Karlsen from Sacramento City College, on EBSCO’s EDS; Bin Zhang and Christian Ward from CSU Sacramento on ProQuest/ExLibris’ Primo; Shelley Blackman from Evergreen Valley College on Innovative’s Encore Synergy; Paula Demanett from Fresno City College on OCLC’s Worldcat Local/Discovery; and Ken Lin from West LA College on ProQuest’s Summon. The presenters described the most common benefits from a discovery tool, such as providing a single search box that is more Google-like and highlighting resources that students would otherwise be unlikely to find. However, throughout the day the shared concerns stood out. These include uneven content neutrality/relevance ranking and database/content support, link resolvers inconsistently resolving, immature course reserve modules (except OCLC’s Worldcat Local/Discovery), a delay in catalog record updates appearing live (except OCLC’s Worldcat Local/Discovery and Innovative’s Synergy) and problems with system response downtime, especially during peak usage periods or heavy demand (e.g. lots of integrated databases). All of the presenters also noted the substantial tech support requirements (e.g. staff resources) for implementation and maintenance of a discovery solution and that the tools were generally not quickly adopted or embraced by either librarians or patrons.

Overall, the presenters thought their respective discovery tools were helpful (for some in theory if not in practice), but cautioned that migration, training, marketing and ongoing maintenance were resource intensive and sometimes challenging. Comments from the audience suggested a strong interest in the discovery concept, but also concerns about having enough technical expertise on staff and the time to devote to a new, labor-intensive tool.