It is a pleasure and honor to represent your interests as CARL President this year. For me, the primary role of CARL is professional development and programming. CARL provides many opportunities for growth and learning through its Interest Groups and the biennial conference.
Therefore my focus for the year will be in supporting these opportunities, learning more about member expectations in relation to these professional development opportunities, and taking action on what we learn. While continuing to shepherd projects already in progress, such as updating the CARL website and exploring options for the best membership management system for our needs.
This year I am especially excited about the excellent program for the 2016 CARL Conference, What We Talk About When We Talk About Value. Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble will frame our conference with a talk that asks us to examine the values that shape our practices in academic libraries.
Two invited speakers, Cynthia Mari Orozco and William Breitbach, will further the conference focus on value and valuing in academic librarianship with talks on valuing our colleagues through building more inclusive environments in academic libraries and on the promised value of web-scale discovery systems.
The program is bursting with opportunities to learn and share on issues ranging from Open Educational Resources (OER) to the academic library’s role in student persistence.
Register before March 3 for the early bird rate. Reserve your hotel room before March 9 to get the special conference rate. Staying at the conference hotel is the best way to spend more time networking and socializing with colleagues near and far. I look forward to seeing you there!
Shana Higgins,President
CARL Member of the Quarter
Nominate a colleague for Member of the Quarter
Do you have an outstanding colleague you would like to have recognized in the CARL newsletter? We are always looking for outstanding librarians and CARL members enjoy reading what their colleagues have done or are working on.
For more information about the CARL Member of the Quarter Award and to nominate a colleague, please see the website for more information and fill out this online submission form. Thank you!
Cynthia McCarthy, Chair, San José State University A. Lee Adams, University of California Berkeley Ben Lea, University of Southern California Brena Smith, California Institute of the Arts
Events
Electronic Resource Hackfest May 2-3 in Rocklin
Are you a librarian looking to get a handle on the rapidly changing world of electronic resources? Want to build your skill set by exchanging tips and tricks with other practitioners? Would you like to have a community of experts to tap into when you have questions about your latest project?
Join us for the first ever SCELC Electronic Resources Hackfest May 2-3 at William Jessup University in Rocklin.
We’re looking to bring together people who work with all aspects of electronic resources for two days of problem solving, solution sharing, and network building.
Thanks to SCELC SPIF funding, this event will be free for attendees at SCELC member and affiliate institutions with a small cost for attendees from nonmember institutions. We’ll send a follow up message early in the spring with registration information and a survey to build session content based on your needs.
Attendance will be limited. For more information and the most recent updates about this event, visit the Hackfest webpage.
Andrew Tweet, Organizer
CARL membership benefits - Join!
Join and meet your colleagues in Costa Mesa at the end of March.
Find a new job among the many new opportunities in the CARL Job Listings.
Nominate yourself or a colleague for CARL Member of the Quarter.
Join an Interest Group or start one.
Run for for an office on the CARL executive board.
Find more ways to become involved on the CARL website.
Lee Adams, UC Berkeley, and Margot Hanson, California Maritime Academy, published an article entitled "Say what? Exploring 'The Most Interesting Place in the city' - the comments sections of online news articles" in the December 2015 issue of In the Library with the Lead Pipe. Read the article here.
Nicole Branch and Elizabeth McKeigue, both of Santa Clara University, presented a poster at the Charleston Conference on November 5 entitled "Return on Instruction: Methods for Assessing the Impact of Information Literacy Instruction on the Use of Electronic Resources."
Jared Burton recently joined Mt. San Antonio College as a librarian. Jared fulfills roles in reference, instruction, and collection development. He also works on department and college-wide projects and initiatives such as student equity planning and is getting to know the college by serving as the library representative to the Academic Senate. Before joining Mt. San Antonio College, Jared was an adjunct librarian at Pasadena City College. The Mt. San Antonio College Library is delighted to have Jared Burton as part of its librarian team.
Caroline Coward, CSU Dominguez Hills, will be taking a year-long leave of absence from her position as information literacy and instruction coordinator. She will continue her affiliation with LILi and ALA, and hopes to establish ties with the California Library Association and other organizations. She will continue advocating for librarians on facebook and other avenues.
Kathy Dabbour, shown left, has been appointed as the new Associate Dean of the Oviatt Library at California State University,Northridge (CSUN). Kathy has a strong background and professional record in librarianship. Her first position as a professional librarian was at CSUN in 1987, and she later held positions at Cal State San Bernardino and University of California at Los Angeles before returning to CSUN in 2000. Kathy has served with distinction as chair of the Oviatt Library’s Research, Instruction and Outreach Services Department, published many journal articles and given presentations at a vast number of professional conferences. She has been the project manager for several grants, including the transformative $1.6 million grant for Hispanic Serving Institutions, which she authored and implemented from 2002-2008.
Elaine Franco, University of California, Davis, pictured at left, is the 2015 recipient of the CLA Member of the Year Award. The award recognizes an individual member of the California Library Association for outstanding contributions, leadership and achievements in service to California libraries. Read more details about the award here.
Miki Goral, UCLA, was elected chair-elect of the Africana Librarians Council, a coordinate organization of the African Studies Association.
John Hickok, CSU Fullerton, presented at various Southeast Asia venues in November and December 2015: the U.S. Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on online resources for ESL teachers; the 2015 International Conference on Information Science in Shah Alam, Malaysia on e-book trends in Southeast Asia; to members of the Thai Library Association, at Rangsit University, Bangkok Thailand, on trends and innovations in U.S. and Asian librarianship.
Annie Knight, Santa Ana College, presented "Cultivating an OER Pathway: A College-Wide Collaborative Approach" with colleague Cherylee Kushida at the The 12th Annual Open Education Conference in Vancouver BC, Canada on November 20. Read the abstract here.
Vivian Linderman, reference and instruction librarian at Citrus College (under which the article is penned), CSU Dominquez Hills, and Long Beach City College, had an Internet Review on the website "Confronting Suburban Poverty in America," published in the December issue of ACRL Research & Libraries News: http://crln.acrl.org/content/76/11/645.full
Jessica Lu and Vicki Rosen, both librarians at University of San Francisco, pictured left, published "Practicing Ignatian Pedagogy: A Digital Collection of Resources" in the online journal Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal. View the article through this link: http://jesuithighereducation.org/index.php/jhe/index. You can also visit the JHE: a Journal facebook page https://www.facebook.com/jesuithighereducation/.
Mario Macías started this fall at Los Angeles Pierce College as an instruction & reference librarian. Mario had previously served as a reference librarian at Cal State Northridge. Mario was graduated from the residential MLIS program at the University of Washington in 2014.
Amanda Woodward, shown left, began working last August as a user engagement librarian at Woodbury University in Burbank. Before joining the faculty at Woodbury, Amanda was an assistant librarian at Disney Consumer Products in Glendale. Amanda holds an MLIS from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Membership Report
August 25-December 4, 2015
Total confirmed members: 393
CARL Members
356
91%
Student Members
23
6%
Retired members
14
4%
By region
Northern CA
130
33%
Southern CA
261
66%
By institution type
Community College
86
22%
California State University
112
28%
Private College/University
119
30%
University of California
40
10%
Not specified
14
4%
Other
13
3%
Research Institution
6
2%
Consortium
2
Public Library
1
Interest Groups
ABLE (inactive)
46
CARLDIG
260
CARLIT
151
CALM
98
CDIG (inactive)
117
DIAL
120
SCIL
209
SCORE
108
SEAL
72
TSIG (inactive)
54
Mentoring Program
Mentors
51
Mentees
48
CARL Business
Executive Board Meeting Notes
Friday, December 11, 2015, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Santa Ana College Attendees: Annette Marines, Lee Adams, Nicole Branch, Melissa Browne, Shana Higgins, April Cunningham, David Drexler, Annie Knight, Ben Lea, Pearl Ly, Jordan Nielson, Jacqui Grallo, Cynthia McCarthy, Brena Smith, Debi Hoffmann.
Called to order at 10:37 a.m. Introductions
Minutes approved-- no changes 10:46 a.m.
Explanation of quarterly reports, included with minutes.
WASC ARC, CARL sponsored IG Workshop: ARC IG day is a free day of the WASC meeting -- promote to CARL membership. Les Kong is in conversation with coordinator.
Unfinished “action items”:
Website workgroup has a charge, work needs to be done, Annette would like to see through; David is chair.
Membership Software workgroup: compare & make a decision (Annette or me)
Standing Rules/Bylaws revision. Put on hold for 2015 due to inconsistencies between revisions and active rules.
*Talk with Annette about vendor session.
*Brena -- lunch tickets for pre-conference attendees & RSVP for free vendor session (make clear to vendor attendees that lunch is not included)
CARL Budget
Membership Director. Update: See report; Question about CALIBACA -- managed outside of CARL (May die with current owner); Contact ben amata to find out status moving forward.
Website Update: Added ALIGN; working on website revamp
Newsletter Update: Moved to mailchimp platform; Suggestion to drop summer newsletter; Discuss later.
IG Coordinator Update: Profit from IG programs? Back to CARL pot?; SCORE is struggling to engage their membership. What can we do?; Reform CARL IT to CARL ET (emerging tech)
Ben as President of SEAL -- Conflict of interest.
Member of Quarter discussion:
-new initiative, limited nominations, no nominations for 4th quarter.
-Annie rotating off as Chair, Cynthia has agreed to Chair
-remove CV/resume from nomination process
-Proactively reach out to CARL members who have accomplished something--publication, project, etc.
-Check in again at end of 2016
-Newly formed: Cynthia McCarthy (Chair), Lee Adams, Brena Smith, Ben Lea
Newsletter: Eliminate Summer issue; *Revise website (David Drexler); Add an ACRL Delegate column (twice a year?); April, September/October, December/January
ACTION **Add Cynthia Orozco to ACRL Chapters listserv
ACTION ** Provide Cynthia Orozco with summary of IG programs (2015), upcoming CARL Conference
ACTION
**Context for Conference Venue survey
**Conference site selection: use a consultant, limited choices (we aren’t a big conference)
**What do you get from convenience of hotel site? What do you give up?
**What kind of experience are you looking for?
**Column that explains how conference budget, contracts work.
**Talk with Les about call for conference sites
ACTION**Send out poll to schedule 2016 quarterly meetings.
ACTION**Google Docs account for CARL
Scholarships & Awards Committee w/th a Chair
ACTION**Corral all the committees, chair could be rotating North/South VP.
ACRL Strategic Goals: how do they fit with CARL/or we fit with our goals? Revisit at Board Meetings.
Continue conversation on Professional Development support. Revisit at Board Meetings. **free prof. dev opportunities for specific constituencies--something for DaL.
Shana Higgins, President
The CARL Newsletter (ISSN: 1090-9982) is the official publication of the California Academic & Research Libraries organization and is published online quarterly.
Deadlines for submissions: March 15, June 15, September 15, and December 15.
Newsletter submissions, including creative contributions, People News and Places News should be sent to carlnewsletter@gmail.com. For corrections, questions and comments please contact the Editor, Cynthia McCarthy at cynthia.mccarthy@sjsu.edu.
Greetings, CARL members,
Kathy Dabbour, shown left, has been appointed as the new Associate Dean of the Oviatt Library at California State University,Northridge (CSUN). Kathy has a strong background and professional record in librarianship. Her first position as a professional librarian was at CSUN in 1987, and she later held positions at Cal State San Bernardino and University of California at Los Angeles before returning to CSUN in 2000. Kathy has served with distinction as chair of the Oviatt Library’s Research, Instruction and Outreach Services Department, published many journal articles and given presentations at a vast number of professional conferences. She has been the project manager for several grants, including the transformative $1.6 million grant for Hispanic Serving Institutions, which she authored and implemented from 2002-2008.
Elaine Franco, University of California, Davis, pictured at left, is the 2015 recipient of the CLA Member of the Year Award. The award recognizes an individual member of the California Library Association for outstanding contributions, leadership and achievements in service to California libraries. Read more details about the award 
Jessica Lu and Vicki Rosen, both librarians at University of San Francisco, pictured left, published "Practicing Ignatian Pedagogy: A Digital Collection of Resources" in the online journal Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal. View the article through this link: 
Amanda Woodward, shown left, began working last August as a user engagement librarian at Woodbury University in Burbank. Before joining the faculty at Woodbury, Amanda was an assistant librarian at Disney Consumer Products in Glendale. Amanda holds an MLIS from the University of California, Los Angeles.