[LIBRARYDIR] A little fact finding mission - could use some help

[Nina Pitts]

Good morning, Cheyenne!

We have 1.5 FTE faculty librarians - one full-time tenured librarian, and one part-time adjunct. Our part-time person is hired from funds allocated to the library for the BAS program.

When our college offered more classes on campus in the evening, we had an additional part-time faculty librarian to cover those later evening hours. Various factors in the last few years have led us to close earlier now (budget cuts resulting in fewer evening classes; few students using the library at night). We also aren't open on weekends. If we were open as many hours as you are, we'd definitely want to restore that position.

Good luck!

Nina Pitts
Library Supervisor
Peninsula College Library/Media Center
1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Port Angeles, WA 98362
(360) 417-6274
npitts at pencol.edu

From: LIBRARYDIR [mailto:librarydir-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Roduin, Cheyenne
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 10:26 AM
To: WACTC Library Directors
Subject: [LIBRARYDIR] A little fact finding mission - could use some help

Good morning all,
I am putting in a proposal to our new VPI as to why the college should fund the part-time librarian they told us to hire for our two new BAS programs (they proposed it but never attached any funds to pay for this position and haven't increase my budget to cover the costs) and I would like to add in a piece about how we have been treading water with just 2 full-time faculty librarians (with me also doing double duty as the Library Program Coordinator) for an FTE of 3100 students.
If you don't mind, could you please shoot me off an email telling me how many full or part-time/adjunct librarians you currently have at your institutions? I can see all your FTEs from the spreadsheets on the Alma/Primo project. So just looking to help my case why it wouldn't kill our college to actually fund a part-time librarian, bringing us up to 2.5 librarians.

Thanks in advance


Cheyenne M. Roduin - MLIS
Faculty Librarian/Library Program Coordinator
cheyenne.roduin at lwtech.edu<mailto:cheyenne.roduin at lwtech.edu>

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