Learning Resources: Library
Including Instructional Media Acquisitions and Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
Description
Current and evolving technologies are causing significant changes in the way
information is stored, distributed, accessed, and presented. For Grossmont
College to offer increased access to a full range of information to all its
students, it needs to grow and utilize new technologies while maintaining its
traditional hard-copy print-on-paper books. To keep current with new technology
and make our resources accessible, Grossmont College’s library offers limited
online databases, acquires e-books, and maintains an Internet site.
Curriculum Impact
The impact of the increased on-line resources is to facilitate access to
instructional materials and information. This allows instructors to expect more
in-depth research from their students without the students having to go to
another library. This accessibility carries with it the responsibility of
evaluating the relevance of the information available.
Approximate Number of Students Served
The library has the potential to affect all students and all disciplines.
Support Impact
The on-line databases are expensive and the number of titles on those databases
will increase. The budget for all instructional materials should be increased.
Additional professional librarian, information, and technical support staff will
be required.
Year 1 (2004-2005)
Objective
Provide all Grossmont students, faculty, and staff with convenient access to a
broad range of information resources that support their curricula and personal
needs.
Continue development and maintenance of the library’s component of the Grossmont
College website, including web-based reference services, to meet present and
future needs.
Increase Grossmont students’ information literacy skills.
Employ high quality personnel to assure effective operation and use of
information and evolving technological environments.
Provide staff with appropriate training of the use of job-related software and
hardware.
Secure new technology to enhance library and instructional media services and
access to information to all Grossmont students, staff, and faculty.
Obtain a stable budget for instructional materials (traditional and digital;
print and non-print) that is sufficient to support the college curriculum,
meeting AB 1725 standards or higher.
Continue inventory to keep track of and assist with organization of our growing
collection.
Evaluate library operations to ensure efficient and effective service to our
users.
Action to Meet Objective
To meet objective 1:
- Continue and improve online access to information resources to Grossmont
students, faculty, and staff via the Web. The online catalog and subscription
databases must be accessible from all locations; we must ensure that access to
the information resources is as much as possible, the same off-campus as
on-campus.
- Utilize electronic resources to complement the library’s print collection.
- Select primary formats for each title (print, microform, or electronic) and
avoid the purchase of the same title in different formats unless the level of
use warrants the additional copy.
- Conform to cataloging standards: all cataloging will conform to the
Anglo-American Cataloguing Code, Second Edition (AACR2R). The database of our
automated library system is maintained in MARC format, including bibliographic,
authority, holdings, and patron records.
- Utilize existing cooperatives for increased savings and efficiencies (SDICCCA,
CCL, GCCCD, etc.)
To meet objective #2
- Provide opportunities for staff training in web page development and
maintenance.
- Redesign the website to reorganize the content of the web pages so that users
can navigate the site efficiently.
- Obtain usage reports of the library’s web pages.
To meet objective #3
- Produce an online self-paced library skills course that introduces library
resources and how to evaluate their usefulness. Continue to rewrite and update
to reflect changes and advancements in the online environment.
- Continue to evaluate library orientations to ensure responsiveness to changes
in electronic resources and needs to our diverse student body.
- Maintain functional spaces for librarians to train and assist students in the
use of resources. This will involve formal classroom instruction as well as
one-on-one or group instruction.
- Offer a 1-unit course in information literacy.
To meet objective #4:
- Develop personnel budgets that reflect overall library staffing plans.
- Gain approval for and hire a fifth and sixth librarian (previously the library
had 6 librarians.
- Employ sufficient classified staff to ensure effective service and operations
in all areas.
To meet objective #5:
- Provide professional development opportunities for all staff to keep current
with evolving technological advances.
To meet objective #6:
- The library will install several online public access catalog (OPAC) only
terminals at different locations throughout the building.
- The library will offer wireless network capabilities to its patrons with
laptops.
- The library will evaluate the effectiveness of new technologies and services
in meeting the needs of our users.
- Continue to select, purchase, and install software on library computers for
in-library use as suitable products are found. Update software on a routine
basis.
- Explore and purchase media technologies in order to support instructional
media.
- Continue to select and purchase computer and media equipment for in-library
use. Upgrade equipment to avoid obsolescence (approximately every three years).
- Coordinate with Information Systems to ensure servers accommodate new
technologies, demand for remote access, and digital databases.
To meet objective #7:
- Acquire and sustain a stable and sufficient budget for instructional
materials, upgraded staff workstations, upgraded student workstations, necessary
technology training for staff.
- Implement a stable and sufficient instructional materials budget.
- Increase the size of print, non-print, and electronic collections and keep
them up to date so that all Grossmont students, staff, and faculty gain access
to current resources.
To meet objective #8:
- Investigate the use of wireless technology for inventory purposes.
- Develop security measures to reduce the number of missing items.
To meet objective #9:
- Explore 3M “Self Check” technology that can be used at the circulation desk.
- Assess effectiveness of public service operations.
Year 2 (2005-2006)
Objective
Same as prior year. These objectives are ongoing.
Action to Meet Objective
Same as prior year.
Year 3 (2006-2007)
Objectives
- Procure a line item in the budget for electronic resources.
- Continue to augment electronic books collection, including reference.
- Investigate federated search engines or a viable substitute for use
starting 07/08.
- Investigate budget feasibility of an article linker (that is, a product
that allows users to link directly to articles between different vendors’
databases).
- Provide staff training on an ongoing basis to keep up with technologies
(such as Microsoft, SIRSI, web pages, and electronic materials)
- Provide staff with adequate computer equipment and software to do their
jobs.
Actions to meet objectives, in order:
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LTR Division Dean will
present line item plan for a $65,000 - $85,000 budget for electronic
resources, which includes e-books and e-reference, to administration and
then appropriate committees for approval.
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Purchase CCL E-book
collections that are viable for the Grossmont collection, as well as
e-reference. Address Collection number 6 in spring 2007. Electronic
Resources Librarian will contact CCL for information, and work with library
e-book point person to determine if collection is appropriate and useful for
Grossmont. Librarian in charge of reference collection development will
investigate adding more e-reference books to the collection through the Gale
Virtual Reference Library.
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Electronic Resources
Librarian will investigate other existing federated search engines in spring
2007 to determine highest quality/best price. A review will be presented at
a librarians’ meeting in the spring, during which alternatives will also be
discussed.
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Serials librarian will
explore article linker options and costs before May 2007.
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Ensure technical training on
SIRSI (Workflows) interface upgrade coming fall 2006. Purchase a Webinar
that can be used for multiple staff trainings for the SIRSI upgrades. Staff
using the upgrade will be required to attend Webinar in Library Instruction
Lab.
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a. Purchase 3 new printers for technical services to replace existing ones
which are over 10 years old.
b. Additionally upgrade the memory on
circulation, technical services, and media services staff computers to
accommodate
the new SIRSI interface.
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