Presentation:

After breakfast and a library tour, Mike Pittman, Director of Special Projects at the system office, spoke about SACS Reaffirmation and how it relates to libraries. He gave an informative overview of the reaffirmation process, led a helpful discussion of the Quality Enhancement Plan, and gave us insight into the core requirements for libraries and ways to prepare for a SACS visit.

NCCCS SACS Web page: http://www.ncccs.cc.nc.us/SACS/

Library Updates:

Mary Jackson:

Durham Tech has several major building projects going on. A brief description was given of each and how they will improve service to the campus community. All these new buildings will have a great deal of technology. Media Services is part of the library at Durham Tech. We have recently lost our Media Services Technician to N.C. State and are having a difficult time replacing him.

Julie Humphrey and Mary Jackson both have completed training for NCKnows. They have been staffing it for 2 hours a week each. Both have found it to be a very rewarding experience. The group discussed some of the issues involved in staffing NCKnows.

Sheila Street:

Alamance’s library is moving to a new location this summer, hopefully by late July or early August. The library will be a 3^rd size larger than its existing facility. The library will house the Scott collection, which contains materials from Gov. Scott and information on college and local history.

The library participated in the program “Alamance Reads” in conjunction with Elon College and public libraries. The book chosen was The Bridge by Doug Marlette about the textile heritage of Alamance County. Two book discussions were held with panelists from Elon, Duke, ACC, and area museums.

Pat Leamon has organized an art exhibit sponsored by the Learning Resources Center and Continuing Ed. Dept. for students, faculty, and staff. The reception will be held May 4. She also has been putting together the library newsletter, which she shared with us.

The Alamance library has had a book challenge! The book under discussion is John Krakaur’s Under the Banner of Heaven. Sheila gave the student the proper paperwork in order to begin the formal process of the book challenge. She also gave the student information on Intellectual Freedom and Freedom to Read. It is unclear whether the student will actually file the complaint. If the paperwork is submitted, a committee is in place to deal with the challenge. Pat is currently reading the book and Mary gave us a book report since she had read the book.

Shelia will keep us posted on the challenge and how it is handled. She was thrilled that Brigham Young University has four copies in their library collection!

Jason Setzer:

Jason reports that he is the sole reference librarian at his library. He staffs the reference desk and does all instruction for the library. Davidson has 2900 FTE. Davidson has just earned multi-campus status. With the new campus, the Davidson library staff wonders if there will be a separate library and collection. The Institutional Research Division for their college has moved into the library. The library has a new title, Planning and Library Resources Department. Jason reports that they are undergoing lots of changes but feels that library service has not suffered. The library is hoping for a separate BI lab, away from the public computers. His library has 50 workstations for students to use. Jason is hoping that there can be a meeting on library instruction at this summer’s LRA conference or at another event to discuss best practices for instruction and share ideas.

Ernest Avery:

Piedmont plans to move its library in two weeks. A two-story building on campus, which formerly housed a gymnasium, has been renovated into the library. The library will be on the 2^nd floor of the facility. Ernest and one other staff member packed the entire library collection for the move (10,000+ volumes)! Books and videos have been in storage for several weeks and they are currently operating with reserve materials only. The maintenance department on campus will be responsible for the move and transport. We will be invited to the open house. Ernest also mentioned a campus grant that was awarded for the library to purchase current textbooks to place on reserve for students. Lastly, during a discussion of literary resources, Ernest shared that his library has eliminated all standing orders for print Literature resources.

Donald Forbes:

Guilford made it through their SACS reaffirmation and were accredited. Please see the college’s SACS information at http://technet.gtcc.cc.nc.us/sacs/index.html

It was determined that staffing was inadequate. They are using the ACRL guidelines for staffing and are requesting more professional librarians. The library constantly feels that they have to remind their institution of the library’s value and importance. During the discussion of literary resources, Don said they have cut all standing orders for print literary resources as well. He said they were never used and have not been missed.

There is enormous growth and building occurring at GTCC’s campuses. GTCC has bought 40 acres for a 3 building complex. The first building is an Adult Ed. Center with a library and a state-of-the-art multimedia meeting room. Two other buildings are planned: classroom building for curriculum courses and a Continuing Ed. building.

The library is having cooperation issues with their IT and security departments. The library was awarded a Tech grant for all wireless internet in the library. Starting in the fall, 11 laptops will circulate in the library for student use. Figuring out how to secure them and coordinating with IT has been difficult for the library.

Lastly, the library has been awarded a LSTA Marketing grant for promoting and marketing library services.

Minutes by Julie Humphrey 4/25/2005