Announcements
Dear Colleagues,
We are excited to announce the publication release of, Building Our Own: Critiques, Narratives, and Practices by Community College Library Workers of Color.
The Mt. SAC Library is thrilled to announce that we have received a prestigious grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a 3-year project titled "Promoting Equity by Examining College History Through Digital Photos." Mt. SAC is one of only five institutions nationally to receive a grant through this initiative. The funding, totaling $149,949.00, will be used to expand a digital photo collection that documents the history of Mt.
The San Diego Mesa College Library and Learning Resource Center (LRC) received the 2024 Library Excellence in Access and Diversity (LEAD) Award from Insight Into Diversity magazine, the largest and oldest diversity and inclusion publication in higher education. The LEAD Award honors academic libraries’ programs and initiatives that encourage and support DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) across their campus. These include, but are not limited to research, technology, accessibility, exhibitions, and community outreach.
Congratulations to those who have won awards in the last year!
Congratulations to our newly retired library faculty!
Robin Babou, Librarian, Río Hondo College (24 years of service) Karen Bourgaize, Part-Time Librarian, Río Hondo College (24 years of service) Randall Gust, Collection Development Librarian, East Los Angeles College Unjoo Lee, Cataloging Librarian, East Los Angeles College Rudy Martinez, Library Media Technician, Río Hondo College (25 years of service)Congratulations to our newly tenured library faculty!
Daniel Ng, South Campus at Mountain House and OER Librarian, San Joaquin Delta College Dr. Loren Valterza, Coordinator of Bibliographic Instruction, San Joaquin Delta CollegeThis pilot project is half-way done for the 2023-2024 academic year.
How’s it working for you?
Introduced by CCL in September, a weekly email goes out to all CCL colleagues to offer information about professional development opportunities in addition to those offered by CCL. We look for a wide variety of choices, from brief vendor training sessions to long-term courses, in online and in-person formats.
Congratulations to our CCL library workers on the following conference presentations:
Congratulations to our CCL library workers on the following publications:
Congratulations to our newly tenured library faculty!
Monika Chavez, Career Education Librarian, Mt. San Antonio College Ryan Edwards, Systems Librarian, West Los Angeles College Allie Jordan, Librarian, Southwestern College Dr. Edeama Onwuchekwa Jonah, Equity and Engagement Librarian, San Diego Mesa College Terezita Overduin, Chaffey College Kolap Samel, Librarian, Mt. San Antonio College Betsy Vaca, Outreach & Equity Librarian, Cabrillo CollegeCongratulations to our newly hired library employees!
Congratulations to our library faculty on their recent educational attainments!
Hong Guo, Online Learning Librarian, Mt. San Antonio College, Doctorate of Educational Leadership, CSUF Parisa Samaie, Librarian/Library Department Chair, Los Angeles Southwest College, Doctorate of Educational Leadership, CSULBCongratulations to our library faculty on the following publications:
The first two books in the series The Community College Library co-edited by Janet Pinkley (CSU Channel Islands & Ventura College) and Kaela Casey (Ventura College) have been released in both print and eBook versions!
By College of San Mateo Library
Congratulations to the California Community Colleges librarians elected to the 2022 California Academic & Research Libraries (CARL) Executive Board!
•Vice-President/President-Elect: Shamika J. Simpson (Long Beach City College)
•Secretary: Annette Young (Cypress College)
•Community Colleges Director-at-Large: Edeama Onwuchekwa (San Diego Mesa College)
Hello, everyone! My name is Cynthia Mari Orozco, and I will be the new CCL Communications Manager from this point forward. I’m very much looking forward to this new role and working with CCL and all of you.
By Rebecca A. Eckland, TMCC Celebrates Family History Research Room
The Black Caucus of the American Library Association bestowed its prestigious Trailblazer Award to Laney College Librarian Shirley Coaston on July 29. Coaston received the award virtually at the National Conference of African American Librarians.
In late January, ACRL announced that Santa Rosa Junior College Library was a recipient of their 2020 ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award. SRJC "was chosen for its dedication of services to its campus community." Read more in the ACRL Insider. Congratulations SRJC!