Electronic Access and Resources (CCL-EAR) Committee

Jean Smith (San Diego Mesa College), Committee Chair May/June  2014

New members: 

• Brian Greene from Modesto will replace Stephanie Curry in the East Central region.  Brian served previously on the Committee but his term was cut short when he was laid off from Columbia College during the economic downturn.  He spent a few years at colleges in Oregon before returning to accept a position at Modesto College.
• Carol Hutte from Chaffee will replace Linda Braiman in the Desert region.  Carol is currently a Reference Librarian and Library Coordinator at Chaffey College. She received her undergraduate degree from UC Santa Barbara in History, Linguistics and Slavic Studies and her MLIS from San Jose State University. Previous to Chaffey, she worked on the Reference Desks at Anaheim Public Library, the Honnold-Mudd Library at the Claremont Colleges, and at Chapman University. She also has worked in the Inter-Library Loans departments at UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
• Steve Hunt is a returning member of the Committee, having served from 2004-2010 representing the Los Angeles area.  He is now temporarily representing the Southwest Region while Rachel Sandoval is on sabbatical.  Steve is systems librarian at Santa Monica College. Prior to that he was a cataloger and later systems librarian at the Los Angeles County Law Library.  He has an MLS from UCLA and a BA in French Literature from the University of Wyoming. He lives in El Segundo with his wife, daughter and dog.
• Glorian Sipman will serve Fall 2014 to cover for Elizabeth Horan’s sabbatical.  Glorian has been the Technical Services Librarian at MiraCosta College since 2001.  Prior to that she worked at the University of Georgia and the Getty Research Institute, and had an internship at the Library of Congress in the Rare Book & Special Collection Division.  She received her MLS from the University of Arizona.  She also served on the CCL-EAR committee from 2004-2012, first as a regional representative and later as chair.

Shared ebook collection deselection project:  The Committee finalized plans to weed the 10 shared ebook collections offered through CCLC between 2001 and 2010.  Tamara Weintraub will chair the deselection “Team” with several other Committee members participating.  Any librarians in the field who would like to join the Team can contact Tamara (tweintraub@palomar.edu).  The project will begin Fall 2014.  The list of suggested titles for possible deselection will be shared early in the Spring 2015 semester with opportunity for appeals.  Weeded titles will be withdrawn Summer 2015.

Ambrose Video review:  Ambrose Video 2.0 offers 566 videos with over 1200 video clips. Video publishers include Centre Communications for Ambrose Video, which is an academic video publisher that has created videos for Discovery, Animal Planet, and the History Channel, Cromwell Films, Antelope Films, Starbright Media Corporation, the BBC, and Time-Life. Many of the videos are accompanied by teacher guides, quizzes, and timelines as Word documents. The web based videos can be accessed by any Internet browser without any special software. All videos are closed captioned.
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Future reviews:  The Committee plans to take on the following reviews during 2014/2015:

• Science database comparison
• Grove Dictionary of Art
• Grove Dictionary of Music
• Salem Press
• Lexis/Nexis
• Discovery services (Ebsco, OCLC, and Summon)

Passing the torch:  It has been an honor and a privilege to serve on the CCL EAR Committee as a member and as chair.  Darryl Swarm will now take over as chair with a great group of dedicated Committee members.  I am not only leaving the Committee but am also retiring at the end of May.  Many thanks to the CCL Executive Board and to those of you who supported the efforts of the Committee over the years.

2014/2015 meeting schedule:

• 9/12/14                                     Phone meeting
• 10/2/14-10/3/14                        Ontario
• 11/14/14                                   Phone meeting
• 3/13/15                                     Phone meeting
• 4/30/15-5/1/15                          Oakland