Libraries advance professional values of intellectual freedom, intellectual property rights and values, user privacy and confidentiality, collaboration, and user-centered service.
Discussion
Included in the CCS Library's Information Literacy Plan (2014) are documents which assert the values of professional librarians including the American Library Association's Library Bill of Rights and Libraries: An American Value. Along with Core Values of Librarianship, these documents articulate the "essential set of core values that define, inform, and guide our professional practice" (ALA, 2019).Like Spokane Community College and the CCS District, faculty librarians are dedicated to promoting the values of equitable access, diversity, social responsibility, education & lifelong learning, information literacy, and intellectual freedom through the services we provide.
Performance Indicator 2.6
The library engages in collaborations both on campus and across institutional boundaries.
OUTCOME 2.6 Librarians collaborate within the college community and networks locally, statewide, nationally, and internationally.
Librarians engage in the following collaborations within the college community:
Service on college committees
Co-creation of a library sub-collection and online research guide with the Teaching and Learning Center manager
Partnering with Tutoring Services to host tutors in the library during Library Study Nights and on Saturdays
Liaison with discipline faculty to provide information literacy instruction tailored to the needs of students in specific classes
Consulting with instructors on the selection of library resources that support the curriculum
Offering OER and openly-enabled pedagogy guidance and support to faculty across campuses
Work with ABE/ESL Leadership during 2018-19 to create a special collection of graded readers designed to promote the enjoyment of reading (This collection will be the focus of an Assessment in Action research project during summer, 2019.)
Cooperative sponsorship of monthly Library Study Nights along with student clubs, SCC Student Events, Tutoring Center, Counseling, and the CCS Foundation
Collaborating with Global Education on the SCC campus to create a series of workshops aimed at supporting international student success
Supporting Rural Centers through quarterly librarian visits and custom services (such as the periodicals study at Colville, and the quarterly, rotating, sub-collection of new books at Newport)
Examples of collaborations by SCC librarians across institutional boundaries include:
Ongoing cooperation with SFCC library colleagues to achieve financial efficiencies whenever possible
Participation in the INCOL (Inland Northwest Council of Libraries) Continuing Education Committee which provides professional development opportunities for library employees throughout the region
Instrumental participation in the development of the annual Inland InfoLit conference which brings together librarians and English composition instructors from area colleges and universities
Joining with community and technical college librarians statewide in grant-funded projects to promote information literacy learning
Participation in Open Educational Resources (OER) training within the state and nationally
An SCC librarian serving a pivotal leadership role in the transition of the statewide College Library and Media Specialists Association (CLAMS) as it moves to become included in the Washington Library Association (WLA) - Academic Division
Conducting research as part of an Assessment in Action (AiA) mini-grant project entitled “Retention, Classroom Success, Engagement, & Equity: A Library Leadership Council Project” funded by the Washington State Library
Continued membership in resource sharing networks including the Washington Idaho Network (WIN), Orbis Cascade Alliance, and the Washington Statewide Database Licensing Project
Discussions with Spokane Public Library to create a partnership whereby CCS students, faculty, and staff would automatically be granted SPL accounts