College Update

Wayne Altenberg is a new reference and instruction librarian at the Los Banos campus of Merced College.  Wayne completed his M.L.I.S. degree at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.  He also has a B.A. in music composition from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Master’s degree in music theory from the University of Texas at Austin.

Lauren McFall is the new Web Services & Emerging Technologies Librarian at MiraCosta College.  Lauren has experience at both the community college and university level, having worked as a librarian at St. Mary's College of California, CSU East Bay, LA Trade Tech, and most recently at Southwestern Community College.  She was also a knowledge engineer at Ask.com for nearly 5 years and a former community college student herself.  Lauren holds an MLIS from San Jose State University and a BA & MA in Linguistics from UCLA.

The Ohlone Library is running a book curation project called “10 by 10.”  Every month, ten Ohlone employees and students select 10 books they enthusiastically recommend from the library's collection. The books are displayed in the library and are available to checkout. You can view the project at http://libguides.ohlone.edu/10by10

Since the last Outlook, we have been very busy at Pasadena City College!

June 2017

The team participated in “library style” at commencement, with books balanced on our mortarboards -- celebrating 900 students who crossed the stage to celebrate their completion of their degree or certificate programs.

Riverside City College hired an Outreach Librarian, Daniel Slota, who started Fall 2017. Daniel is an Inland Empire native. He grew up in Bloomington, CA, and later moved to Riverside where he currently resides with his 6-year-old daughter, Paige. Daniel began higher education at San Bernardino Valley College, transferred to SJSU to complete an undergraduate degree in Social Sciences, and completed the MLIS via the SJSU/Cal State Fullerton satellite program.

ACRL Circle of Friends Insider has a Spotlight on Kenley Neufeld:

Past President, President, Regional Representative and ongoing positive CCL member for many years… http://www.acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/archives/14277

 

Kacey Bullock is the new Librarian at Sierra College. Kacey graduated with an AA from Sierra College, a BA from William Jessup University, and an MLIS from San Jose State University. She formerly worked at William Jessup University’s library and has also worked as a part-time librarian at Sierra since 2016. She’ll be responsible for reference, instruction, and collection development. We’re happy to have Kacey on board!

A new hire for West Valley College Library. Jasmine Colón began as our Digital Services Librarian in February 2017.  She has her B.A from UC Santa Cruz and her MLIS from San José State.

Cynthia Mari Orozco has been hired as the Librarian for Equitable Student Services Cynthia comes to ELAC from CSU Long Beach, where she worked primarily with first-generation college students, transfer students, and international students.

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