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

[Tammy Siebenberg]

Yakima Valley has an FTE of about 3800 (we've dropped since the Alma/Primo worksheets).  We have 2 full-time faculty librarians (35 hours/week each) and 1 adjunct who works 12 hours a week.  I fill in for morning breaks and if a librarian is teaching a class or is ill.

Now we are open M-Th 7:30-7:30 and F 7:30-4:30.  With the move of the open computer lab to the library this quarter, we are planning to extend our hours another 12 hours a week.  I had hoped to get back the full-time faculty librarian position we lost in 2008, but I've been told to look for another adjunct to fill those additional 12 hours.

Good luck, Cheyenne!

Tammy

Tammy R. Siebenberg
Director - Library & Media Services
Yakima Valley Community College
Yakima, Washington  98902
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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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