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

[Watkins, Candice]

Hi,

TCC has 4 full time libs and 4 part timers. We did just get the good news, though, that we'll get to add a full time position next year, bringing us up to 5 FT libs.

Thanks,
Candice Watkins
TCC Library Director

From: LIBRARYDIR [mailto:librarydir-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Coe, Erica
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 12:07 PM
To: WACTC Library Directors <librarydir at lists.ctc.edu>
Subject: Re: [LIBRARYDIR] A little fact finding mission - could use some help

OC has 3 full-time librarians (one at 66%) and 4 adjunct librarians, however one of the adjunct librarians is actually getting her hours because of the full-timer's reduced load.    So, when the full-timer retires, we will have 3 full-time and 3 adjunct positions.

One adjunct librarian works one day a week at our Poulsbo campus and the rest of the time here in Bremerton.   We don't have a librarian regularly scheduled at our Shelton campus.

We did briefly have 4 full-time positions, but someone retired and we never got the funding to fill that position.   And somewhere along the way, one full-time librarian's salary was moved out of our normal budget and into our BSN account that is paid by our Foundation.  She isn't even the nursing librarian.

Thanks,
Erica


From: LIBRARYDIR [mailto:librarydir-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] On Behalf Of Nina Pitts
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 11:26 AM
To: WACTC Library Directors
Subject: Re: [LIBRARYDIR] A little fact finding mission - could use some help

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<mailto: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
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