The winners of the annual CJCLS/EBSCO Awards have been announced.Mary Ann Laun, dean of library services and library director of ShatfordLibrary at Pasadena City College, has received the 2012 Community andJunior College Libraries Section EBSCO Community College LearningResources Leadership Award. Laun has worked for Pasadena City Collegefor over thirty years. "Her service as co-founder and chair of the firstCalifornia Community College consortium, as an editor of Choice and as amember of Infopeople advisory committees, among other roles, benefit notjust Pasadena City College students, faculty and staff, but also communitycolleges across the state and nation-wide," said CJCLS Awards CommitteeChair Amy Gonzalez Ferguson in a press release.

CJCLS/EBSCO AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED!

Sheila Afnan-Manns, KandiceMickelsen, and Reyes Medranoreceived the 2012 Community andJunior College Libraries SectionEBSCO Community CollegeLearning Resources Award.Afnan-Manns is a faculty librarianat Scottsdale Community College,Mickelsen is a faculty librarian atParadise Valley CommunityCollege (PVCC), and Medrano is afaculty member in the Businessand Information TechnologyDivision at PVCC. The three

collectively produced TheMedrano Project, a portablemodel for effective collaborationbetween faculty and librarians thatcan be applied at any college. TheProject features a "livingtextbook" that students create byresearching and pulling sourcesfrom proprietary library databasesas well as open accesseducational materials.

The Medrano Project builds onParadise Valley Community

College's OneClick Digital, aproject meant to lower the barrierto faculty adoption of openeducational resources (OER).OneClick Digital lists open accesstextbooks in various disciplinesand assists faculty in selectingappropriate OER for their courses.For more information on the otherACRL awards granted this year,see "ACRL Honors the 2012Award Winners" parts one (in theMarch, 2012 issue) and two (in theApril, 2012 issue) in C&RL News.

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WHAT IS ALA'SEMERGINGLEADERSPROGRAM?

The EmergingLeaders Programwas started in2007 by AmericanLibrary AssociationImmediate PastPresident LeslieBurger. Theprogram providesopportunities fornewer librarians todevelop leadershipskills, as well asbecome moreinvolved in ALA.Each year roughly50 applicants areaccepted. Thoseinterested inapplied to EmeringLeaders orlearning moreabout the programshould consult theALA EmergingLeaders Programweb page.

Editor: What brought youto librarianship?

Amy Barlow: Well, I wasalways a lover of libraries.As a teenager, I spent mytime devouring old moviesand dead-celebritybiographies, whichbrought me to the publiclibrary every other day. Incollege, as ananthropology major, Iadored working in thelibrary, followed bygraduation and a brief stintas an archaeologist, asurprisingly dull job. Imade the decision toreturn to school, enteringdual graduate programs inLibrary and InformationStudies and History. Bestdecision ever.

Ed.: Could you describeyour Emerging Leadersproject that you'll beworking on?

AB: Sure, I'm going to beworking with a group ofreference librarians–onefrom a special library, onefrom a public library, andtwo others from academiclibraries–and our charge isto develop another blogfor RUSA, with contentrelated to the vision andvalues of the organization.It's in the planning stages.Our goal is to speak to thereference user experience,incorporating the views ofdifferent kinds of patrons:community borrowers,students, faculty, doctors,and public library users.

Ed.: What do you hope toget out of the Emerging

Leaders program?

AB: I hope to create onlinecontent that people wantto read, while putting thespotlight on theperspectives of thestudents and faculty that Iwork with. I'm concernedwith bringing the voice ofthe patron to libraryprofessionals, so I hopethat that will be asuccessful aspect of theproject. I hope also tobring awareness to whatcommunity collegelibrarians do, day-to-day,which is a lot and neverboring. Lastly, as anemerging leader, I have aunique platform to speakwith and learn frominformation professionals,as I become more familiarwith the people thatpopulate ALA sections androundtables.

Ed.: What are you readingright now and why?

AB: I am reading AnthonyTrollope's The EustaceDiamonds, and I'm readingit upon therecommendation of myfriend Taylor Polites, whois a new author. His bookwill be published by Simonand Schuster in February2012, it's called The RebelWife. Everybody shouldread this southern gothicstory of desperation andtransformation! There’splenty of time on theairplane betweenconferences.

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2012 STATE OFAMERICA'SLIBRARIES REPORTRELEASED

The annual reporthas sections on e-books, academiclibraries, socialnetworking,intellectual freedom,& more. Among itsconclusions, thereport notes that "noone is quite surewhere theebook–libraryrelationship is going.Is this a marriagethat’s breaking up oran engagementthat’s just goingthrough a roughperiod? Time willtell, and more datawill certainly help."

CJCLS MIDWINTER COMMITTEE REPORTS

All CJCLS committees met duringALA's MidWinter meeting in Dallas,Texas. In addition, there was a "hottopics" discussion covering everythingfrom assessing the efficacy ofinformation literacy instruction, toembedded librarianship, to web scalediscovery services.

AWARDS COMMITTEEThe Awards Committee received fournominations for the EBSCO CommunityCollege Learning Resources Award.Committee members reviewed andscored each Learning ResourcesProgram Award nomination oninnovativeness, uniqueness,effectiveness, and impact. All scoreswere totaled and a winner was selected.

The committee decided the EBSCOCommunity College LibraryAchievement Award on the basis ofcareer achievements, advocacy,leadership, and impact.

The Awards will be presented duringthe CJCLS dinner at the ALA AnnualConference. The committee's remainingtask is to plan the Awards Dinner.

LIBRARY TECHNICAL ASSISTANTEDUCATION COMMITTEEThe LTA Education committeediscussed what schools are doing inresponse to the Library Support StaffCertification Program as well as how tomarket LTA programs and assist

colleges in developing new programs. Anational survey of LTA coordinators wassent out in 2005 and the committeedecided to evaluate the previousinstrument, modify, update, and thendistribute it using Survey Monkey duringMarch of 2012. CJCLS Chair NanSchichtel also asked the committee todefine its purpose. The LTA EducationCommittee is in need of members sointerested parties should submit avolunteer profile through the ACRLwebsite.

MEMBERSHIP/COMMUNICATIONSCOMMITTEEThe Membership/CommunicationsCommittee met virtually in Januarysince only two members attended ALAMidWinter. It discussed ideas for thisnewsletter, including the SnapshotSurvey that appears on page 4,interviewing the CJCLS EmergingLeader, and soliciting content fromsection members. The committee alsodecided to revisit the CJCLS brochure,updating its look as well as making itmore digital friendly. Additionally, thecommittee decided a Facebookpresence was desirable and onecommittee member was alreadyexperienced with monitoring theirinstitution's Facebook page. Finally,they discussed speaking at local LISschools to spread the word about bothCJCLS and community collegelibrarianship more broadly.

CJCLS AT ALA ANNUAL IN ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIACJCLS is teaming with the Instruction Section at ALA Annual in Anaheim.

LEARNING STYLES: FICTION, NONFICTION, OR MYSTERY?SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 1:30PM-3:30PM, LOCATION TBAPanelists: Char Booth, Lori Mestre, & Jean Runyon. Moderator: Anne-Marie DeiteringWhat do we really know about learning styles? This program will examine the conventional wisdomabout learning styles and lead us into deeper consideration of how we address learning styles in ouronline and classroom teaching. A moderated panel of speakers will investigate the relevance andvalidity of learning styles in relation to information literacy instruction, and lead participants inexercises to reflect on their perceptions of learning styles.

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Do you have an interesting story related to information literacy instruction toshare with the CJCLS newsletter? We're trying something new and conductinga short survey to collect your stories. Visit our Google Form to submit a storyand we might publish it in the next newsletter! If you prefer, you can submit theform anonymously and we will not share what you pass along to us.

SNAPSHOT SURVEYInformation literacy instruction in your library

"library clothing/badges" (February 16-20th,2012) - Do you require your librarians or librarystaff to wear some sort of identifying clothing oritems?

"new security system" (November 23rd, 2011) -Is it worth purchasing a security system for yourlibrary?

"lets ban books" (November 16-17th, 2011) - Adiscussion of a Chronicle of Higher Educationarticle entitled, "In the 21st-Century University,Let's Ban (Paper) Books".

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