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COA Library & LRC Self Study Response Template
(Spring 2008)
II.C.1. The institution supports the quality of its instructional programs by providing the library and other learning support services that are sufficient
in quantity, currency depth, and variety to facilitate educational offerings, regardless of location or means of delivery. IIC.1.a Relying o
appropriate expertise of faculty, including librarians and other learning support services professionals, the institution selects and maintains
educational equipment and materials to support student learning and enhance the achievement of the mission of the institution.
EXAMPLE OF DESCRIPTION: LIBRARY
Themes:
1a. Questions:
Evidence/Proof:
The College of Alameda Library occupies the first floor of the L Building.
The library does maintain study space, and a small Listening-Viewing
Center on the second floor next to Audio-Visual Reserves providing two
workstations for student use. The library does not own a multi-media
collection.
□ Institutional Commitments:
-- □ To provide high quality education
congruent with institutional mission
-- □ To focus on student learning
-- □ To periodic reflection on the mission
□ Evaluation, planning and improvement
-- □ Evaluation
-- □ Goal setting
-- □ Resource distribution
-- □ Implementation
-- □ Re-evaluation
□ Student Learning Outcomes as the
conscious and robust demonstration of the
effective ness of institutional efforts to
produce and support student learning by
developing student learning outcomes at the
-- □ Course
-- □ Program
-- □ Certificate
-- □ Degree level
□ Organization as demonstrated in having
adequate staff, resources and organization
structure (communication and decision making
structure)
-- □ To identify and make public
learning outcomes
-- □ To evaluate the effectiveness of
programs in producing those outcomes, and
-- □ To make improvements
□ Dialogue as a means to ongoing
participation in institutional self-reflection
based on
-- □ Honesty
-- □ Truthfulness, and
-- □ Manner of Internal and External
self-representation to institution
-- □ OPENENSS & TRANSPARENCY
OF PROCESS
□ What info about student learning
needs is provided by other
instructional faculty and staff to
inform selections of library
resources?
□ Program Review
On the first floor the Library provides access to open stacks for its various
collections. Other Library resources include 12 library research
workstations and two additional, and identical workstations for student
with disabilities with DSPS approved software. Each has network/internet
access to all library resources.
The Library’s collections includes books (39,025 volumes), periodicals
(170 current subscriptions), electronic databases (12 subscriptions),
Internet access, and microfilm (3,254 archived reels – only one current
subscription) and one microfilm reader.
The Library’s collections represent both traditional Liberal Arts and
vocational subject areas – Circulation, Reference, and Periodicals, as well
as special book collections for students that include Textbook Reserves
and pamphlets, and a new ESL/Easy Reading collection. The vertical file
was dismantled in 2006. The library also houses an uncataloged archive.
Library staffing includes 3 full-time librarians and 1.35 FTE hourly
librarians (7 P.T. Librarians who work 3.5 to 15 hours each per week) and
five full time classified Library staff.
AUDIO-VISUAL
The Audio-Visual Services, calendar, and funding is organized under the
Office of Instruction. The Library is responsible only for any multimedia
resource collection housed in AV. Currently the AV Collection consist of
only about has over instructor reserve 1,000 titles, primarily
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□ How does the institution assess
the effectiveness of its own library
collection in terms of quantity,
quality, depth and variety?
□ What is the quality determined as
necessary by the institution?
□ How does the institution know it
has sufficient depth and variety of
materials to meet the learning needs
of its students?
□ What information does the
library use to determine whether it
is enhancing student achievement of
identified learning outcomes?
□ Unit Plan & Budget
Proposal
□ Ed. Master Plan
□ Surveys
□ SLOs & Measures1
□ Statistics
□ Show quantity,
quality, depth and
variety.2
□ Ongoing instruction
□ Link of SLOs and
assessments to
purchases & ed. progs.
□ acquisition related to
educational plans3
□ Hrs. of operations,
remote access and
means of delivery, &
limits.4
□ Institutional
maintenance schedules,
capital improvement
plans, security for
library, holding, L
Bldg.5
□ Formal agreements
or contract, for
services6
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videocassettes, audio recordings, and older analog recordings. Due to
staffing and budgeting constraints the collection has not been cataloged,
nor integrated into Horizon, the college’s bibliographic utility (online
catalog). In 2007 the six AV viewing-listening stations were taken apart,
and replaced by two individual PCs. New wired carrel have been ordered,
but funding for new equipment is not apparent.
Audio-Visual services has one full time classified supervisor and one halftime AV technician. As the Audio-Visual remains uncataloged,
automated checkout on the HORIZON system has not been implemented
and for which an additional computer will be needed.
.
Self-Evaluation: Library
Self-Evaluation: AV
As public access to the collection through PEARL will probably increase
use of such materials, standardization and updating of formats and
platforms is a priority. Collection development in AV has been hampered,
as in the Library collections, by a stagnant budget, insufficient to
increasing costs, technical advances, and growing informational needs of
students and faculty. It is hoped that with additional staffing and
increased budgeting the AV collection can be weeded for unused and
outdated materials, older technical formats and that useful older resources,
such as the analog recordings, be transferred to digital forms and archived
Action Plans: Library
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IIC. 1b. The institution provides ongoing instruction for users of library and other learning support services so that students are able to
develop skill in information competency.
Narrative:
Themes:
Questions:
Evidence/Proof:
□ Institutional Commitments:
□ Evaluation, planning and
improvement
□ Student Learning Outcomes
□ Organization
□ Dialogue
-- □ OPENENSS &
TRANSPARENCY OF PROCESS
□ What are the information competencies that
the institution purports to teach all students?
□ Program Review
□ How does the institution assess the
competencies in information retrieval/use that it
teaches students?
□ Ed. Master Plan
□ How does the institution evaluate its teaching
effectiveness and set goals for improvement.
□ Unit Plan & Budget Proposal
□ Surveys
□ SLOs & Measures
□ Statistics
□ Show quantity, quality, depth and
variety.
□ Ongoing instruction
□ Link of SLOs and assessments to
purchases & ed. progs.
□ acquisition related to educational
plans
□ Hrs. of operations, remote access
and means of delivery, & limits.
□ Institutional maintenance
schedules, capital improvement
plans, security for library, holding,
L Bldg.
□ Formal agreements or contract,
for services
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IIC. 1c The institution provides students and personnel responsible for student learning programs and services adequate access to the
library and other learning support services, regardless of their location or means of delivery.
Questions:
Narrative:
Themes:
Evidence/Proof:
□ Institutional Commitments:
□ Evaluation, planning and
improvement
□ Student Learning Outcomes
□ Organization
□ Dialogue
-- □ OPENENSS &
TRANSPARENCY OF PROCESS
□ What are the hours of operation of the library?
□ What is the availability of electronic access to
library materials?
□ Are all campus locations/all types of
students/all college instructional programs
equally supported by library services and
accessibility?
□
□
□ Program Review
□ Unit Plan & Budget Proposal
□ Ed. Master Plan
□ Surveys
□ SLOs & Measures
□ Statistics
□ Show quantity, quality, depth and
variety.
□ Ongoing instruction
□ Link of SLOs and assessments to
purchases & ed. progs.
□ acquisition related to educational
plans
□ Hrs. of operations, remote access
and means of delivery, & limits.
□ Institutional maintenance
schedules, capital improvement
plans, security for library, holding,
L Bldg.
□ Formal agreements or contract,
for services
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IIC. 1d. The institution provides effective maintenance and security for its library and other learning support services.
Questions:
Narrative:
Themes:
Evidence/Proof:
□ Institutional Commitments:
□ Evaluation, planning and
improvement
□ Student Learning Outcomes
□ Organization
□ Dialogue
-- □ OPENENSS &
TRANSPARENCY OF PROCESS
□ NONE SUGGESTED
□ Program Review
□ Unit Plan & Budget Proposal
□ Ed. Master Plan
□ Surveys
□ SLOs & Measures
□ Statistics
□ Show quantity, quality, depth and
variety.
□ Ongoing instruction
□ Link of SLOs and assessments to
purchases & ed. progs.
□ acquisition related to educational
plans
□ Hrs. of operations, remote access
and means of delivery, & limits.
□ Institutional maintenance
schedules, capital improvement
plans, security for library, holding,
L Bldg.
□ Formal agreements or contract,
for services
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IIC. 1e. When the institution relies on or collaborates with other institutions or other sources for library and other learning support services
for its instructional programs, it documents that formal agreements exist and that such resources and services are adequate for the intended
purpose, are easily accessible, and utilized. …evaluated on a regular basis … institution takes responsibility for and assures reliability of all
service provided directly or through contractual arrangement.
Questions:
Narrative:
Themes:
Evidence/Proof:
□ Institutional Commitments:
□ Evaluation, planning and
improvement
□ Student Learning Outcomes
□ Organization
□ Dialogue
-- □ OPENENSS &
TRANSPARENCY OF PROCESS
□ What contracts, if any, exist for the provision
of library and learning support services?
□ What processes does the institution have for
evaluating and ensuring the quality of those
contracted services?
□ How does the institution gather information to
assess whether the services are being used?
□ Program Review
□ Unit Plan & Budget Proposal
□ Ed. Master Plan
□ Surveys
□ SLOs & Measures
□ Statistics
□ Show quantity, quality, depth and
variety.
□ Ongoing instruction
□ Link of SLOs and assessments to
purchases & ed. progs.
□ acquisition related to educational
plans
□ Hrs. of operations, remote access
and means of delivery, & limits.
□ Institutional maintenance
schedules, capital improvement
plans, security for library, holding,
L Bldg.
□ Formal agreements or contract,
for services
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2. Institution evaluates library and other learning support services to assure their adequacy in meeting identified student needs. Evaluation
of these services provides evidence that they contribute to the achievement of student learning outcomes. The institution uses the results of
these evaluations as the basis for improvement.
Questions:
Narrative:
Themes:
Evidence/Proof:
□ Institutional Commitments:
□ Evaluation, planning and
improvement
□ Student Learning Outcomes
□ Organization
□ Dialogue
-- □ OPENENSS &
TRANSPARENCY OF PROCESS
□ What method does the institution use to
evaluate its library and other learning support
service?
□ Does the evaluation assess use, access, and
relationship of the services to intended students
learning?
□ Does the evaluation include input by faculty,
staff, and students?
□ Program Review
□ Unit Plan & Budget Proposal
□ Ed. Master Plan
□ Surveys
□ SLOs & Measures
□ Statistics
□ Show quantity, quality, depth and
variety.
□ Ongoing instruction
□ Link of SLOs and assessments to
purchases & ed. progs.
□ acquisition related to educational
plans
□ Hrs. of operations, remote access
and means of delivery, & limits.
□ Institutional maintenance
schedules, capital improvement
plans, security for library, holding,
L Bldg.
□ Formal agreements or contract,
for services
1
Library evaluates the effectiveness of student learning during course, workshops on IC and use of the library
No of vols, periodicals, kinds of tech resource or equipment – computers, microfiche, video equipment audio tapes, CD ROMs, seating nos.
3
Data and analyses of the institutional evaluations of library holding by faculty (or disciplines or programs, student and any external reviewers.
4
Description of remote access practice and statistics; description of use by remote users – students faculty.
5
Institutional plans for improvement of Library.
6
Description of contracted/collaborated services quantity, quality, depth and currency; results of evaluation of these contracts; provisions of contract that provide for institution’s
control of quality.
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