Name: Catherine L. Finney                                                                                

Academic Year: Fall 09 through Spring 10

1.  Job Title and Job Description:

Faculty Librarian:  As Associate College Librarian, Collections and Acquisitions, my primary responsibilities include:
 

• Library Collection Development
• Library Acquisitions (plus general administrative oversight of Technical Services)
• Professor, Lib 127 “Information Research Skills”
• Library reference desk service

2.  Activities

(a)     Primary Assignment—Include teaching and any course or curriculum development, administrative duties, advising or activities pertinent to job description.

Library Collection Development

As Associate College Librarian for Collections and Acquisitions, I guide the expenditure of the Library’s capital budget for monographs, periodicals and continuations (both electronic and print) and lead the selection of databases and other online resources.

Monographs, continuations and serials form the bulk of the library’s $102,000.000 capital budget per year.  Databases and other online resources represent an additional approximate $28,000.00/yr. The audiovisual budget consists of $9000/yr.  In addition, I select for collections purchased from Foundation funds, typically totaling about $10,000.00 per year. 

I coordinate the selection of the following COCC Library collections according to the College’s curricular and programmatic needs:

·         Monographs (circulating and reference)

·         Continuations (books and reference items ordered on a continuing basis)

·         Periodicals and newspapers (print, microfilm and online collections)

·         Databases

·         Audiovisual materials. 

·         E-book and E-journal collections.  

As Associate College Librarian for Collection Development and Acquisitions, I allocate funds to COCC academic departments and communicate with faculty regularly, encouraging faculty to participate in book, periodical and audiovisual selection in direct support of their courses.  While faculty are invaluable in selecting materials to support their programs, I perform more than half of all collection development; to this end, I monitor curricular developments at COCC and regularly examine bibliographic and review literature in library and other professional literature corresponding to the College’s major programs.  I coordinate reference selections with the library’s Public Services Librarian.  

In addition to monitoring developments in the monographic and serial publishing fields, I track the development and marketing of new databases and online resources.  I serve on the Orbis-Cascades Alliance Electronic Resources Committee and regularly trial new online resources and collections for the COCC community.  I track consortial, regional and national trends in collection development and analysis via membership in the Orbis Cascades Collection Development Committee and a variety of publications and listservs. 

I regularly work with faculty and department chairs to evaluate the Library’s collections for new courses and programs—evaluating, selecting and adding new periodical subscriptions and databases (as the budget permits), and monographs as required.  Finally, I analyze Library collections as needed to assist departments meet accreditation reporting requirements.

I also am responsible for assessing and evaluating the collection, deselecting outdated editions and formats (example: VHS) as necessary.

I also manage the library gift book program—coordinating the procurement of gifts, and evaluating and selecting from all gift materials donated to the Library.

In addition to these ongoing responsibilities, several specific activities I performed in Fall 2009 to Spring 2010 in Collection Development are outlined below:

·         Implemented 25% budget cut in collection development—modified all book allocations and reviewed all periodicals holdings for possible cuts.  Number of periodicals reviewed: 240.    Please see http://web.cocc.edu/finney/proposedserialscuts0910.htm for more information. Periodicals review included:

ü  Identifying possible periodical titles for cuts based on use statistics and prices.

ü  Analyzing database holdings for potential cut titles.

ü   Communicating with faculty and staff about proposed cuts.

·         While serving as Curriculum Committee chair, I proposed that a series of assessment questions regarding library resources be added  to Curriculum’s Course Proposal form.   Please see below.  The process of answering these questions will assist faculty and department chairs with assessing the need for library resources for their proposed courses.  This proposal was passed by the Committee.

·         Initiated and completed review and “weeding” of 240 retrospective print periodical runs in the Barber Library—ultimately de-selecting issues and releasing almost two ranges of shelving space for Information Commons development.

·         Created and began implementation of plan for reviewing and replacing Barber Library’s collection of  3793 VHS with DVD or streaming video as appropriate.   Reviewed VHS title by title with Acquisitions/Technical Services staff.   Please see http://web.cocc.edu/finney/vhsreplacement.htm for VHS replacement plan/policy.

·         Created detailed, five page Nursing library resources collection development policy plan at their request. See http://web.cocc.edu/finney/nursinglibrarycollectiondev.htm for policy.  Weeded nursing video and book collection with Nursing faculty. 

·         Worked with Health Information Technology faculty to weed print collection.

·         Weeded Gs (sports, recreation, geography etc.) and T’s (Technology, culinary, etc.).

·         Worked with OSU Valley Library staff on new policy for collection development and acquisitions processes; COCC will now use YBP (Yankee Book Peddler—a library book jobber) as a shelf ready vendor. 

·         Began process of creating shelf ready profile (ie. cataloging, call number, and processing criteria) with YBP

Spring, 2010.

·         Explored setting up of approval plan with YBP representatives.

·         Closely tracked publishing industry developments with electronic books.  Tracked Orbis Cascades Collection Development Committee research into consortial electronic books purchases and informed library staff regarding potential purchase opportunities for electronic book collections. 

·         Trialed, bought and facilitated loading of Oregon online Topo Maps.

·         Investigated the following databases:  ‘America’s Newspapers (for coverage of the Bulletin and the Oregonian) and ‘Nursing FullText’.

·         Began drafting policy and web pages for streaming video acquisitions. 

·         Continued subscription to Orbis Electronic Resources list serv to monitor electronic resources news, subscription opportunities and trials.

·         Attended Orbis Electronic Resources general committee meeting in Portland, OR Spring, 2010.

·         Attended  Orbis Electronic Resources  ½ day  presentation (late Spring, 2010)  on discovery tools and presented information and findings to COCC Library staff.

·         Attended Orbis Collection Development general committee meeting regarding cooperative e-journal licensing November, 2009. 

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Acquisitions and Technical Services

I supervise and evaluate one full-time classified staff member and one 2/3 time classified staff in all book, AV, and periodical acquisitions.  The full time staff member is also responsible for maintenance and updating of the COCC online catalog. 

Acquisitions orders and receives all books, DVDs, magazines, online resources, journals and newspapers for the Library.  Ordering of books is done by direct order and through library vendors.  Ordering of periodicals is done via our periodicals vendor, Ebsco.

Another responsibility of Acquisitions/Technical Services is maintaining the electronic representation of all COCC Library items within our online catalog.   In 2009-2010 and years past the COCC Library has shared our cataloging and acquisitions functions and Integrated Innovative Interfaces online modules with OSU’s Valley Library.  I coordinate the procedures and policy for COCC’s acquisitions and cataloging processes with Valley Library’s Head of Technical Services as necessary. 

In addition to these ongoing responsibilities, I implemented the following projects in 2009-2010:

·         Initiated experiment with links to Serials Solutions in COCC e-journal records.

·         Guided cataloging of Netlibrary items.

·         Evaluated Technical Services staff.

·         Attended supervisors’ training February 2010.

·         Once again evaluated and reported on Technical Services space requirements in response to campus wide space demands.  Managed move of Technical Services storage area and staff work areas in order to release space for five IT offices.

Professor, Information Research Skills

In 09-10 I taught four sections of the two credit Lib 127 course in addition to twelve library instruction sessions for individual courses. 

·         A major project in 09-10 was the development of a pilot course, Lib 199.  In Winter 2010, I began surveying faculty members in HD and WR 60/65 courses to determine the need for a one credit, introductory information literacy course.  Response from faculty was very positive, and with approval from my department chair, I proceeded to develop Lib 199 “Introduction to Information”.  Please see process, course outcomes and initial syllabus at: http://web.cocc.edu/finney/lib199.htm .  I tested the course Summer 2010 and plan on bringing the course to COCC’s Curriculum committee Winter 2011.

·         Spring/Summer 2010:  I joined COCC General Education Outcomes Taskforce and drafted rubric for Computer and Information Literacy.

·          I continued to work deeply with library colleagues and COCC faculty on incorporating information literacy within WR 121/122.  In company with librarian colleagues, I played a key part in the following activities (next page):

o    Fall 2009: Informal brainstorming session with library and composition faculty on ideas for incorporating IL into writing courses.

o    Dec 2009: Presented “Proposed Approach to Information Literacy for Fall 2009, Winter 2010, and Spring 2010” to library management mtg with Tina Hovekamp.

o    March 2010: drafted implementation steps (based on the above document).

o    April 2010 : Met with Composition Committee Chair--presented draft concepts (above) for IL in WR courses.  Comp. Committee chair took draft back to Composition Committee for review.

o    May 2010: Finalized key steps for incorporating information literacy in Wr 121/122 for academic year 2010-2011.

o    Please see http://web.cocc.edu/finney/informationliteracydevelopment.htm for details on the above items.

Library Reference Desk Services

I continue to work with students, faculty, staff and community members at the Library reference desk so that they may successfully access, use and evaluate COCC and OSU online and print information resources.

(b)     Professional Improvement—Include professional improvement activities along with current status towards completion of specific goals of your Professional Improvement plan.

o    GOAL #2: Further develop skills and knowledge in the selection, acquisition and management of electronic collections, especially within the context of Orbis-Cascades’s strategic agenda and Barber Library’s movement towards an information commons model. 

·         Goal #3:  Explore new web and communication technologies, products and strategies for information literacy instruction offered by the Library:  explore tools and best practices that will assist departments meeting the new AAOT embedded information literacy proficiencies; draft and teach an elective one credit web 2.0 based course as a pilot (199) focusing on online information retrieval. (Please see next page for PIP activities responding to this goal).

(c)      Service to the College

o   Chair, Curriculum Committee

o    Member, General Education Outcomes Taskforce

o    62 advisees

(d)     Service to the Community

·         Co-organized "Campus Reads" events with OSU-Cascades Librarian and Chandler organizer Karen Aylward around author Greg Mortensen's "Three Cups of Tea".  My contributions were:

o    Organizing and setting up talk by local Afganistan expert Arthur Lezin (60 people attended).

o    Organizing and setting up talk by local Afganistan expert Irv Nygren (80 people attended)

o    Organizing and leading two book discussion groups in Oregon room for "Three Cups of Tea"

o    Drafting flyer to publicize expert talks and book groups

o    Co-organizing free distriubtion of "Three Cups of Tea" to COCC and OSU-Cascades students.

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·         Assisted research project for Westside Village Magnet School Lego Robotics Team; Team won first place in for research in district competitions.

·         Led “Internet Safety and Research” session for middle school students.

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