UNCTV Broadcast on Community College Issues

On Tuesday, August 30th, UNCTV will broadcast "Discounted Dreams: High Hopes & Harsh Realities at America's Community Colleges". This presentation is part of The Merrow Report series of documentaries on youth and learning. You can go to this page now and read pdf transcripts of podcast interviews with some of the documentary participants.

Handout Exchange

You may find some useful instruction/orientation materials in the CCLA Handout Exchange. CCLA (College Center For Library Automation) supports Community College libraries in Florida.

Alternative Research Assignments

Here's a nice list of alternative research assignments compiled by a librarian at American River College in Sacramento,CA.

Social Networking and Library Services

If you are interested in the possibility of creating a MySpace or Facebook page promoting your library, you may want to start paying attention to the Friends: Social Networking Sites for Engaged Library Services blog. This article from Information Today covers some of the same territory.

Welcome to Reference & Instruction Exchange Roundtable

This is a cooperative effort to start a dialogue about Reference and Instruction in NC Community Colleges. What are you doing now, what are your instructional and reference success stories, and what are your ideas on improving instruction and reference services with the CC student population? Comments are enabled on this blog, but please stay close to the topics listed in the mission statement at the top of the screen.

We would also like to start a conversation about peer evaluation; you may also see references to this concept under "peer coaching" in the professional literature. We are interested in this concept with the emphasis on "peer", with librarian's working to improve each other as professionals, not as a part of an employee's evaluation.