April is Community College Month, a great opportunity to get the word out about why community colleges matter, how your college is serving your community’s needs today, and why public support for community colleges is more important than ever. Celebrate these “Best Decisions Ever” with ACRL’s resources and publications.
The Community College Library Book Series
Community college librarians are engaged in meaningful work designing and delivering library programs and services that meet the needs of their diverse populations and support student learning. ACRL’s “The Community College Library” series is meant to lift the voices of community college librarians and highlight their creativity, tenacity, and commitment to students.
You might also like The Small to Mid-Size Academic Library: Collaborations and Outreach; Supporting Diversity through Collection Evaluation, Development, and Weeding: CLIPP #48; Assessment and Advocacy: Using Project Outcome for Academic Libraries; and ACRL’s Open Access Books.
Project Outcome for Academic Libraries
Project Outcome is a free toolkit that helps libraries measure four key learning outcomes—knowledge, confidence, application, and awareness—across seven library program and service areas. The survey topics cover: Instruction, Events/Programs, Research, Teaching Support, Digital & Special Collections, Space, and Library Technology. The toolkit provides academic libraries of any size the means to easily measure outcomes and use that data as the basis for improvements and advocacy.
Open Educational Resources and Affordability RoadShow
Free and publicly accessible Open Educational Resources (OER) can provide significant support for facilitating and supplementing student learning and research.ACRL’s Open Educational Resources and Affordability RoadShow, available in person or online, will help participants understand the basics of OER and how libraries can be involved in affordability initiatives at your institution.
Learn More About CJCLS
ACRL’s Community and Junior College Libraries Section (CJCLS) serves to share common areas of interest to enhance library services and librarianship in libraries and resource centers in two-year institutions and to support the educational programs of these institutions. Check out the CJCLS newsletter and LibGuides and join the ALA Connect Community today.