February 2023

Reports

The CCL-EAR committee is continuing our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion with a brand new comparative review of diversity focused databases by four of the major library database vendors.

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Statewide Initiatives

The LSP Governance Committee made a recommendation to the CCCCO to purchase OCLC Cataloging & Metadata, EZProxy and LibKey for the 110 colleges in the LSP Program. We have recently heard back from the Chancellor’s Office that those recommendations were approved (!!) and are working with them to finalize details.

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Staffing

Katrina Rahn joined the Santa Rosa Junior College library team as Electronic Resources Librarian in August 2022. Read more …

Articles of Interest

Like all CA community colleges, faculty at Hartnell College have been exploring ways to embed equity in their pedagogical practices. In 2019, with the OEI Course Design Rubric and the Peralta Online Equity Rubric in hand, the Student Success and Equity Committee began developing its own rubric for both online and f2f classroom instruction.

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