The CJCLS Newsletter is a semi-annual publication of the Community and Junior College Section of the Association

of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association; 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611;

(800) 545-2433, ext. 2523; www.acrl.org. Editor: Eric Phetteplace § ISSN: 0888-1405 § © 2011

Linda McCann, Denise Repman, and Theresa Stanley presented at theCJCLS ALA Annual Conference Program on “Currents of Change andInnovation: Libraries Learn to Reduce, Reuse and Renew”.The program highlighted innovations and “best practices” in communitycollege libraries related to reducing print collection size, re-purposing spacesto accommodate learner-centered collaboration, and renewing commitmentsto campus technology collaborations. See Page 5 for a detailed description.The program was also selected as a virtual session included in the ALAVirtual Conference.

Pictured (from left): Ann Coder, Theresa Stanley, Denise Repman, Linda McCann.

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CJCLS LTA EDUCATION COMMITTEE AT ALA ANNUAL IN NEW ORLEANS

The CJCLS LTA EducationCommittee met on Sunday, June26, 2011, at ALA-New Orleans.The members that were presentwere: Pamela Thomas, Chair;Mary Ann Sheble; Sue Keefer;and, David Dowell.Jenifer Grady and Ian Lashbrook,representatives of ALA/APA(American LibraryAssociation/Allied Professional

Association) were guest speakersat the meeting and shared that theLibrary Support Staff CertificationProgram (LSSCP) is in its secondyear. The LSSC has been createdfor current employees working inLTA positions, but without thedegree. LSSC candidates canapply for the program and receivecredit for prior learning as well astake courses offered. For more

information about the LSSCP,check out their website, http://ala-apa.org/lssc/. The LSSC wouldlike to market this program tocurrent employers andemployees. Library TechnicalAssistant (LTA) programs caneither have their coursesapproved individually or theirentire program accepted into theLSSCP. [Continued on pg. 2]

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CJCLS at ALA Annual p1LTA Education Committee atNew Orleans p1Find Your Welcoming Home inCJCLS p2Midwinter in Dallas p3CJCLS at ALA 2012 inAnaheim p3Recent Research p4Educational LeadershipResearch p4On the CJCLS Listserv p4Reduce, Reuse, and RenewProgram p5Editor's Corner p5CJCLS/EBSCO LibraryAchievement Awards p6

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AS OF JULY,2011, CJCLSHAD 1292INDIVIDUALMEMBERS, 134ORGANIZATIONALMEMBERS, AND 3CORPORATEMEMBERS FOR AGRAND TOTAL OF1,429 MEMBERS,A 6.4% OVERTHE PREVIOUSYEAR.

Thank you for theopportunity to serve asthe 2011-12 Chair of theCommunity & JuniorLibraries Section! Servingas chair is an amazinglearning opportunity, evenfor someone who hasbeen a librarian for almost30 years. It’s beenespecially interesting tosee the inner workings ofALA, ACRL and CJCLSsince my second Mastersin Public Administrationfocused on non-profitleadership in professionaland leadership trainingorganizations. Volunteersand ALA’s employeesperform mountains ofwork to keep ourprofession moving ahead.Getting involved inCJCLS was a must for mewhen I moved from auniversity to a communitycollege setting; I neededto get up-to-speed withcommunity college issuesthat were so different thanthose I was used to.Before starting my newjob, I dropped in on theCJCLS Hot Topicssession at a MidWintermeeting, not sure ofwhether that was okay todo since I was not yet asection member. Friendlylibrarians including DavidWright, Ann Coder, LoraMirza, Christine Crowley,and Kenley Neufeldwelcomed me into thecommunity & juniorcollege libraries fold. Atthe next ALA meeting, Ishowed up at CJCLSevents again, and sawfamiliar faces of folks whoremembered me – a great

feeling!“Putting myself out there”during that job changewas less of a comfortzone stretch since I hadserved as an officer inACRL’s Distance LearningSection, and as a lurkingmember in ALA’s VideoRound Table - bothplaces full of collegialacceptance. But that wasnot the feeling that I hadwhen I first joined ALAyears ago – and thensubsequently dropped mymembership. That firsttime around, I did not findmy welcoming home inthe organization – but Ialso didn’t bother – orreally know how – tovolunteer and become anactive member.Soon you will be offeredthe opportunity to getinvolved on 2012-13committees. I hope youwill accept thatopportunity when youreceive the emailmessage alerting you tovolunteer online. WeNEED committeemembers to keep ourCJCLS organizationrunning. We recognizehow hard it is hard tocommit in this economywhen you are not sureyou will be able to attendMidwinter or ALA – as wehave those samestruggles. Weunderstand that you maynot be able to offer to bea committee chair – so trya committee position.Few committee posts aretime-intensive since wetry to spread the workamong the committee

membership – and thecommittee work iscyclical. CJCLScommittee chairs will askyou to participate –usually virtually but insome cases in person –so ask questions aboutpotential committees ofinterest.Get active in ALA, ACRLand CJCLS. Meet us andsee if you like what yousee. Is CJCLS useful toyou as a professional? Doyou have skills, abilities,and enthusiasm you arewilling to share toimprove that relationship?If you cannot volunteer,then come to meetingsand/or programs if youare lucky enough toattend Midwinter orAnnual Conference. Allbut one committeemeeting (Awards) is opento visiting members. Ifyou can’t make it to themeetings and/orprograms, join us for theSocial we run on Fridaynights at those meetings.If those aren’t options foryou right now, be anactive participant on ouremail listserv. We wantto get to know you!I appreciate yourmembership in theSection and hope youbecome involved inCJCLS as much as youare able. I sincerely hopeyou find your welcomingorganizational home withCJCLS.

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BY NAN SCHICHTEL, 2011-12 CHAIR

Once a candidatehas completed therequiredcoursework andportfoliosubmission, theywill receive acertification.Marketing LTAprograms andcourses is a topicthat the LTAEducationCommittee will befocusing on thisyear. Other issuesthat the committeewill be discussingare creating anetwork for LTAProgramCoordinators,marketing theLSSCP, and thenew licensingrestrictions (stateboundaries) foronline programs.—Pamela Thomas,Chair, LTAEducationCommittee

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Check out the Google Map at http://g.co/maps/a8nv

Dallas Convention Center (650 S.Griffin St.): midwinter will be held inthis convenient location in downtownDallas, which is over 2 million squarefeet in size.

The Sixth Floor Museum at DealeyPlaza (411 Elm St.): this museumfeatures artifacts from PresidentKennedy's life, death, and legacy. Italso features a reading room whichoverlooks Dealey Plaza, containingmore than 4,000 books on John F.Kennedy.

Old Red Museum of Dallas County(100 South Houston St.): a museumthat showcases the history of DallasCounty, from the first settlement in themid-19th century to the post-warperiod.

The French Room (1321 CommerceSt.): an extravagant restaurant locatedin The Adolphus hotel, The FrenchRoom boasts impressive Zagat ratingsand an award-winning wine list.

El Centro College (801 Main St.): alocal community college, just a fewblocks away from the conference.

THINGS TO DO IN DALLAS

CJCLS AT ALA ANNUAL IN ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIACJCLS will team with the Instruction Section to produce a program for the upcoming ALA Annualconference in Anaheim.

LEARNING STYLES: FICTION, NONFICTION, OR MYSTERY?What do we really know about learning styles? This program will examine the conventional wisdomabout learning styles and lead us into deeper consideration of how we address learning styles in ouronline and classroom teaching. A moderated panel of speakers will investigate the relevance andvalidity of learning styles in relation to information literacy instruction, and lead participants inexercises to reflect on their perceptions of learning styles.

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Dempsey, M. (2011). Blending the trends: A holistic approach to reference

services. Public Services Quarterly, 7(1/2), 3-17. doi:

10.1080/15228959.2011.572769

Green, J. & Swanson, T. (2011). Tightening the system: Reference as a loosely

coupled system. Journal of Library Administration, 51(4), 375-388. doi:

10.1080/01930826.2011.556960

Marcus, S. & Beck, S. (2011). Faculty perceptions of plagiarism at

Queensborough Community College. Community and Junior College

Libraries 17(2), 63-73. doi: 10.1080/02763915.2011.591709

Rusk, M. D. & Cummings, E. (2011). Libraries and the local economy:

Partnerships for economic growth (a presentation to the Oklahoma Library

Association, March 30, 2011), Community & Junior College Libraries, 17(2),

53-61. doi: 10.1080/02763915.2011.591708

Swanson, T. & Green, J. (2011). Why we are not Google: Lessons from a

library web site usability study. The Journal of Academic Librarianship 37(3),

222-229. doi: 10.1016/j.acalib.2011.02.014

RECENT RESEARCHArticles published in the past year about or by community college librarians.

WHAT WOULD YOULIKE TO SEE INEDUCATIONALLEADERSHIPRESEARCH?I am a librarydirector in a PhDprogram inEducationalLeadership. I wouldappreciate hearingfrom other librariansinterested in oractually participatingin such a program. Iam trying to settleon a dissertationtopic and wonderwhat other librarianswould like to see inthe way of researchin our field.—Shannon Van Kirk,Director of of BlueMountainCommunity College

The CJCLS listserv is a very activeand informative mailing list. If you're aCJCLS member and you're not on themailing list, join already!

Some of the most vibrant discussionsincluded:Cruel Irony (August 25th) - how doyou handle a student who reads abook through your library instructionsession?Textbooks (August 16th) &Textbooks in your circulatingcollection (September 21st) - doesyour library keep current copies oftextbooks?Librarians Giving FAFSA Help(August 5th) - how much shouldlibrarians assist students with financialaid forms?

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CJCLS PROGRAM AT ALA ANNUAL IN NEW ORLEANS

Managing change in a rapidlychanging library environment was thegeneral theme of “Currents of Changeand Innovation: Libraries Learn toReduce, Reuse, and Renew.” Thisprogram was sponsored by theCJCLS section and featured threelibrary directors from across the widespectrum of community colleges.Each addressed their respectiveresponses to change within theiracademic libraries. Linda McCann(Bucks County Community College,PA) discussed innovative andcollaborative practices at BCCCwhich led to receiving the 2010 ACRLExcellence in Academic LibrariesAward. McCann highlighted creativeprojects such as the MInDSpace(Media and Instructional DesignSpace), a Learning Commons and thepopular Library Learning Studio. Shestressed the value of collaborativeopportunities and professionaldevelopment efforts. “SecondVerse…Better than the First” wasDenise Repman’s (DelgadoCommunity College, LA) take on thetransformation of library services atDCC since the devastation fromHurricane Katrina in 2005. With two ofthe four system libraries destroyed,

Delgado approached the recoverywith an emphasis on collaborationamong the college libraries and arenewed emphasis on technology. Byrelying on the library website,Blackboard and chat software,Delgado was able to continue toprovide library services andinstruction to students. In 2008, DCCmoved from recovery to rebuilding.Finally, Denise Stanley (PimaCommunity College, AZ) showcasedthe renovations completed in Tucsonthanks to a campus Title V grant.Intended as a campus studentretention measure, the grant allowedfor a renovation of the library space.Stressing that the number of booksdoes not define a library, Stanleyshared their plan to reduce thenumber of print titles, revamp existingspace to provide more collaborativework area, and to provide noiseabatement features. The plan alsocalled for a Learning Commons andLibrary Studio, complete with awritable whiteboard walls. Thoseattending the program heard fromthree innovative libraries that havelearned to reduce, reuse and renew.–Jim Patterson, NorthwesternConnecticut Community College

This past June, I started in my firstfull-time librarian position atChesapeake College in Wye Mills,Maryland. I am truly ecstatic towork for a community college, thetype of institution that Ideliberately targeted throughoutmy job search. I had many peersin library school and yet I can onlythink of one or two who sharedthe same goal. While our coursesoften debated the differencesbetween archives, universitylibraries, and public libraries,community colleges were rarelydiscussed in their specificity. So

why did I aspire towardsemployment at one? To me,community college libraries strikea perfect balance between publicand university: they are embeddedwithin their local communities, butthey also support an educationalmission. The diversity ofcommunity college students isalso appealing, spanning first-generation college students toadults seeking to bolster theirprofessional skills. Such a broadrange of skills and life experiencesmakes teaching both challengingand exciting.

While I knew that I wanted towork for community colleges, Isuspect there are numerous LISstudents that have yet to considerthem. Speaking at schools,soliciting practicum students, andbeing visible at conferences andjob fairs are all important. Wemust continue to spread themessage about what makesworking at a community or juniorcollege library so special, and sovaluable to our nation.—Eric Phetteplace, CJCLSNewsletter Editor

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See details in the Awards & Scholarships section of the ACRL Web site:www.ala.org/acrl

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N o m i n a t i o n s due

CJCLS/EBSCO COMMUNITY COLLEGE LEARNING RESOURCES AND LIBRARY ACHIEVEMENT AWARDSThese two annual awards recognize significant achievement in the areas of programs and leadership.

Nominees for the program award should demonstrate significant achievement in development of a unique and innovative learning resources/library program.

Nominees for the leadership award should demonstrate significant achievement in advocacy of learning resources/library programs or services, or leadership in professional organizations that are associ-ated with the mission of community, junior, or technical colleges.

Individuals or groups from two-year institutions, as well as the two-year institutions themselves, are eligible to receive awards. Nomina-tions will be kept on file for three consecutive years.

Each Award: $500 and plaque sponsored by EBSCO Information Services

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Community College Learning Resources & Library Achievement Award