California Community College Library Standards for the 21 st Century

1. California Community College Library Standards for the 21st Century A Breakout Session - Fall 2009 ASCCC Plenary Presented by Scott Lee, Antelope Valley College & John Koetzner, Mendocino College

2. How it Started • 16.0  LIBRARY AND LEARNING16.01     S09         Develop Standards of Practice Paper for Library Services                                Kevin Bontenbal, Cuesta College, Counseling and Library Faculty                                                            Issues CommitteeWhereas, The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges has adopted the paper Library Faculty in California Community College Libraries: Qualifications, Roles, and Responsibilities (adopted Spring 1996); Whereas, Although the "role paper" describes the range of activities of library faculty, it does not set out specific standards for how those activities would be performed; and Whereas, Specific standards for library services have appeared piecemeal as Education Code sections, accreditation guidelines, professional guidelines, and ethics statements, but nowhere have these standards been collected, reviewed, and presented systematically to the California community colleges with specific application to the roles of librarians in the California community colleges; Resolved, That the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges develop a paper addressing standards of practice for California community college libraries, including the role of library faculty, resources, services, instruction, and other aspects of library service to faculty and students.MSC       Disposition: Local SenatesAssigned: Counseling and Library Faculty Issues Committee

3. Background LIBRARY FACULTY IN CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE LIBRARIES: Qualifications, Roles, & Responsibilities Adopted 1996 Spring Session Academic Senate for California Community Colleges

4. Background

5. Background • ACCJC - Standard IIC • http://www.accjc.org/pdf/ACCJC_WASC_Accreditation_Standards.pdf • Library and Learning Support Services • Library and other learning support services for students are sufficient to support the institution’s instructional programs and intellectual, aesthetic, and cultural activities in whatever format and wherever they are offered. Such services include library services and collections, tutoring, learning centers, computer laboratories, and learning technology development and training. The institution provides access and training to students so that library and other learning support services may be used effectively and efficiently. The institution systematically assesses these services using student learning outcomes, faculty input, and other appropriate measures in order to improve the effectiveness of the services.

6. Background • ACRL Standards http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/standardslibraries.cfm • Title V http://www.cde.ca.gov/LS/fa/sf/title5regs.asp

7. Goals of ACRL Standards • They are intended to apply to all types of libraries in higher education, from technical institutes to research universities. • Only for CCC Libraries. • The standards and key principles are designed as a tool to help libraries establish individual goals within the context of their institutional goals. • Designed to help CCC libraries push for full inclusion within institutional goals.

8. Goals of ACRL Standards • They focus on documenting the library’s contribution to institutional effectiveness and student learning outcomes. • Due to the limited variety and geography of CCC Libraries and the homogeneity of a common system, a common set of standards is more applicable.

9. Goals of ACRL Standards • The standards provide suggested points of comparison for peer and longitudinal comparison, and encourage the development of other measures. Some measures of quality and quantity are used in this document, as well as questions to provide guidance for assessing each element of library operations and the provision of library services. • Create standards that CCC libraries can measure themselves against to help facilitate conversations about resource needs.

10. Goals of ACRL Standards • To be applicable to such a wide range of libraries, it is necessary that the standards not be prescriptive. • As the population of libraries covered is limited in variety and geography and part of a common system, fear of being prescriptive is less of an issue.

11. Counseling Paper as a Model

12. Additional Resources Informing the Library Standards Governor’s Executive Order S-06-09 http://gov.ca.gov/executive-order/12393/ WHEREAS ICT Digital Literacy is defined as using digital technology, communications tools and/or networks to access, manage, integrate, evaluate, create and communicate information in order to function in a knowledge-based economy and society...

13. What’s been done to elicit responses from the field… • Sent email to Council of Chief Librarians Executive Board • Sent email to all CCL Chief Librarians • Presented that this was happening at two workshops for CCL in September & October 2009 (Northern California & Southern California) • Had the Library Standards Outline in the September CCL Outlook • This Fall Plenary Breakout session/workshop

14. What we hope to achieve with the paper… • Create a paper that goes beyond just defining the roles of librarians in California Community Colleges as achieved in 1996. • Develop standards system-wide for California Community College libraries. • Inform California Community Colleges regarding the standards they should have for their libraries. • Possibly influence changes to Title V and Ed. Code regarding California Community Colleges as well as ACCJC Standards.

15. Workshop • 1. Review the outline • 2. Brainstorm ideas that might be added or areas that might seem obsolete. • 3. Flesh out some ideas with some possible details. • 4. Raise any questions about the outline. • 5. Report back on what the group’s ideas are about the outline. • Resources for Library Standards Paper: http://www.mendocino.edu/mendocinocollegelibrary/Library_Standards_Resources.htm