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Community College libraries are a focal point of innovation, learning, study, research, technology, and teaching. Through the Libraries' emphasis on information literacy and critical thinking, students become better prepared for transfer to 4 year institutions and/or the workplace. Librarians are looked upon as faculty peers and contribute to the learning process in a variety of ways. Target college libraries for grants, projects, collaboration.

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Submitted by abogage 2 years ago

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  1. kellyr

    As the multitude of information resources continues to grow the experts trained to acquire, manage, and instruction in their use are librarians. Librarians are facilitators and are important in training students for more advance academic work and using information resources for personal/life-long learning. Colleges not respecting the need for resources to support programs and for staffing to train students to use them are damaging their students' ability to be academically successful

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  2. Community Member

    Working in a comprehensive, open-door community college, we enroll many students who are under-prepared for the rigors of college. In addition, the 21st century student arrives with techno-tools they believe have prepared them for research. But they are not. We should lobby for a graduation requirement in Information Studies by adding Information Literacy courses to the curriculum.

    As a CC librarian, I have been teaching an Information Literacy course. But administration is reluctant to offer the course each semester, refuses to acknowledge the evidence which clearly shows its' importance to student success and has chosen not to add it to our Teaching/Learning Goals within our AQIP (Academic Quality Improvement Program)review.

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  3. stolson

    In addition to training students, librarians often aid faculty members who need informational material, clarification on copyright and plagiarism, and instruction on how to use technology. Our community college librarians are embedded in distance learning courses to help students who do not have opportunities to visit us face-to-face.

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  4. norman

    Libraries constitute one of the important safety nets for underprepared students. When students must be able to use multiple computer systems (registration, financial aid, course delivery) just to enroll and start a course, they need a lot of assistance. Community college libraries are often last in priorities for space to accomodate group study and for facility renewal. My library has old carpeting and only one group study room. We have space that could be converted to group study, but the financial climate right now does not make it feasible.

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  5. Community Member

    Literacy training should be conducted by Adult Basic Education/Literacy instructors, not librarians. ABE/Literacy instructors are trained to teach theses type of courses. Current resources should be used instead of adding new ones. Our community college utilizes our Adult Education instructors to teach basic literacy (including computer literacy) classes.

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