El Camino Community College
Learning Resources Unit Council Meeting
October 16, 2007
Persons present: Kerry Bossin KB, Don Brown DB, Susie Dever SD, Alice Grigsby AG, Ed
Martinez EM, Howard Story HS, Claudia Striepe CS.
The meeting was convened at 3:08 P.M. by AG.
Item # 1: The minutes of the September 18, 2007 meeting were reviewed and approved.
Item # II: Unit Activities: AG reported that Mike King was retiring. DB asked about his range
of duties. AG added that EM would soon become a grandfather.
Item # III: Program Review Activities 2007-2008: DB reported that the meeting with Barbara
Jaffe resulted in lots of useful information and compliments on good organization. There was
also a meeting with Irene Graff. He noted that our survey will be conducted the last week of
October into November and that a printed student survey would go to random classes. Faculty,
staff, and managers will be surveyed online. He added that Irene Graff has incorporated the
changes suggested in the previous LRU Council meeting. SD brought up the issue of coffee, but
it was agreed not to raise hopes by having a question in the survey. AG noted there will be a
food court adjacent to the library. HS added that Mike Wilson will format the survey. AG
thanked DB and the committee for their work and noted that now work can commence on the
narrative of various areas using Standard II to work with. There will be a meeting this Thursday
from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in Room 105.
Item # IV: Student Learning Outcomes Update: SD reported attended three conferences. The
CCAOE was an occupational education conference. She also attended a full-day conference on
Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome and learned about signs and reactions. AG asked if she could
give an informal talk to a small group in public service. CS reported attending an SLO
conference attended by 700 people, and she advised of a Learning Assessment Fair next week on
campus. At the conference, the presenter likened conditions in education to a “perfect storm” in
terms of immigrants, changing job market, gap between rich and poor, etc. and the need to
prepare for these conditions. At their next meeting, the librarians will discuss the LRU SLO,
work on a second SLO and Accreditation.
Item # V: Trends and Projections LRU: AG had sent a copy of Trends and Projections for the
library to EM and for Distance Education to HS. She advised that the campus’s master plan
needs to be updated and provided an ECC Trends and Projections Form intended to track
whether programs will expand, be stable, or contract and to provide a narrative which gives a
rationale for the projection. AG added that the Music Library would not be considered as
separate. AG noted that Distance Education should be listed as expanding and also briefly
discussed an article on issues for young librarians such as the future of the Reference Desk and
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the role of Internet providers such as Google. DB added that the question at Internet librarian
conferences is always, “How do I give added value?” AG advised that the form would be due
October 22 and asked for each person to work on his/her piece, and Friday they would try to pull
it all together. AG added that staffing needs will change with the new building and would need
to be accounted for in any planning document. She advised that there is new planning software
to replace Q Builder.
Item # 6: Faculty Identification Committee Recommendation: AG spoke of the need to
determine our senior representative. AG talked with the librarians and will request one faculty
position, a librarian. AG mentioned to HS that we should probably ask for a 100% Distance
Education person to work with faculty. Joe Georges is working as a professional not as faculty.
AG noted for long-term growth we need a fulltime person. CS asked if the new position could
be 50% librarian and 50% Distance Education. AG pointed out the true need for a
cataloger/collection development librarian. She added that Vice President Arce is very
supportive of Distance Education and would like to have 150 sections by fall 2008.
Item # 7: Other: HS asked if there was an Area Council report. AG responded that the meeting
subject was textbook policy and how to bring the Bookstore out of the red. The new director is
working on that and hopes that the students will be able to purchase textbooks online. AG noted
that in supplemental material that went to the Board, the priority of IT is to upgrade and replace
campus data infrastructure switches, especially to replace the non-Cisco switches in the library,
which was the building first connected using what was available.
The meeting was adjourned at 3:55P.M.