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Letter from the President

CCL's Commitment to Equity and Diversity

Leslie A. Tirapelle By Leslie Tirapelle, Pasadena City College & CCL President

The CCL Board commends you for finding so many creative solutions, and being unwavering in your persistence, to connect students with the resources they need as they’ve faced a myriad of crises over the past six months. These very challenging times have highlighted, and exacerbated, many of the pervasive inequities faced by our students of color stemming from long standing systemic racism and social injustice Read more …

Reports

CCL-EAR Committee Chair Report

With most California Community College Libraries starting out the 2020/21 academic year online, the importance of the CCL-EAR Committee has never been more obvious. Read more …

Introduction and League Library Consortium Update

Hello! I would like to take a moment to re-introduce myself. I had the good fortune to work with so many of you in my previous role as the project lead for the LSP implementation project. As of July 7th, I have transitioned to serving as Read more …

Update from the Executive Director

In case you didn’t see the email … It’s that time of year when CCL sends out the annual membership invoices (same cost as last year, $150). And usually these are mailed … but not this year. Read more …

Welcome New Board Members!

The CCL Board of Directors is composed of librarians who volunteer their time, talents and knowledge to support the mission of CCL, in service to all our libraries. At CCL’s annual retreat in July, we welcomed several new members to the Board. Read more …

Collections Management

Digitizing Archives on the Cheap

Last October a beloved retired welding instructor at Columbia College named Mack Frost passed away. One of the remembrances that was shared included a partial clipping from a decades-old student newspaper profile of him, along with a request for the complete article, if anyone happened to have it. The archive in Read more …

Reference & Instruction

If You Want to Go Far, Go Together: The Los Rios Libraries Information Literacy Tutorials

Details a collaborative effort by librarians across the Los Rios District to create and maintain Canvas-based information literacy tutorials. Read more …

Statewide Initiatives

LSP Governance Committee Co-chairs Update: The LSP project in September 2020

Much of the discussion of the LSP over recent weeks and months has been about funding, and rightly so. Needless to say, when the pandemic devastated California’s economy, our hopes for ongoing funding were disappointed. We will continue to advocate for Read more …

Not Exactly A Quiet Summer: Saving the LSP

“Difficult” does not adequately describe the summer challenges handed to CCL this year. And I’m not even referring to Covid-19 issues or fire-related problems. Consider these things:

Staffing

Diablo Valley College's Newest Librarian

The Diablo Valley College Library is pleased to announce the "founding librarian" for its San Ramon Campus Library, Amanda Choi.

Laney College Welcomes Librarian Intern

Laney Library Technician takes on new role Read more …

Mission Gets New Technical Services Librarian

It is my pleasure to introduce our new Technical Services Librarian, Melissa Destefano. Melissa joins us from the New York State Library where she served as the head of the Government Documents Unit and coordinator of the Federal Library Depository Program for New York State. Read more …

Retirement at Sierra College

Deirdre Campbell retired from Sierra College at the end of the spring semester. Deirdre started as Read more …

Events

Conferences

Upcoming conferences of interest Read more …