LOS ANGELES TRADE TECHNICAL COLLEGE | Council of Chief Librarians

Gabriella Lopez joins the LATTC Library Staff

Gabriella Lopez was born in Hungary and moved to the United States in 1996. She obtained her Master's of Library and Information Science degree from San Jose State University in 2002. Following her graduation, she worked as a contract librarian at Toyota Motor Sales, USA. While working at Toyota, Gabriella continued gaining more experience in community college librarianship by completing the Los Angeles Community College District's Project MATCH internship at West Los Angeles College. She also worked part-time at Santa Monica College, Cerritos College, West Los Angeles College and Los Angeles Southwest College.

Most recently, she was a full time, tenured faculty member at East Los Angeles College. She oversaw the library operations at East Los Angeles College, South Gate Educational Center as the South Gate librarian. As a solo librarian at the satellite campus, Gabriella was involved handling a variety of library functions including cataloging, collection development, reference and instruction. She taught orientations and presented workshops on a regular basis. She also taught the Library Science 101 course at the ELAC main campus, at South Gate and online.

Gabriella is certified in Etudes online teaching and she also completed the Cyber Teacher's Institute: Classic Cyber Teachers' Institute and Humanizing Your Online class courses.

In February of each year Los Angeles Trade Technical College celebrates African-American Heritage Month. Hallowed Grounds: Sites of African American Memories is the 2016 theme chosen by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. The National Park Service has designated more than 25 national sites, including the home of the father of black history, Dr. Carter G. Woodson. Notable events for the LATTC Community include: Martin Luther King speaking at several churches nearby the LATTC Campus, Eldridge Cleaver holding a fund-raising rally at Trade in the 70’s and President Obama speaking at Trade in 2008 and 2014.