Describes the development of an annotated booklist about Arizona, including information on surveying readers to identify "favorite" books, annotating the resulting list of 161 titles, obtaining funding for publication, obtaining permissions, and disseminating and evaluating the booklist, "On Arizona! A Readers' Survey of the Grand…

Urges community college learning resources center (LRC) directors to piggyback on other institutional grants and capitalize on involvement in existing networks to obtain external funding. Lists federal and private sources of grants and offers examples of community colleges that obtained money from these sources to improve their LRC systems. (DMM)

Offers grantsmanship guidelines for learning resource centers (LRC's), focusing on locating funding and writing proposals. Describes grants obtained by Morton College's (Illinois) LRC from the college foundation, the state library, and the federal Department of Education. Lists resources useful in pursuing grants and identifying funding sources.…

Examines the historic interrelationship between libraries and adult education in light of the major personalities, events and forces affecting the relationship. Reports on interviews conducted at five learning resource centers (LRC's) regarding the development of the LRC and the librarian's role as adult educator. (DMM)

Intended for upper-level students in nursing and related professions who have been selected to work as peer tutors, this book was designed to help peer tutors become a caring, competent resource for nursing students through independent study. The book attempts to lay the theoretical groundwork for understanding tutoring as a legitimate aspect of…

Contends that the interactive authoring of microcomputer software is an appropriate service for community college libraries. Lists steps in the development of such a program. Provides a sample program authored in BASIC for a learning module on the use of figurative language. (DMM)

Highlights the need for two-year college libraries to expand services to educationally disadvantaged persons. Explores the nature of this target group and some of the barriers to higher education they face. Considers the implications their needs have for learning resource centers and discusses some potentially effective responses to those needs.…

Presents the American Library Association's Statement on Professional Ethics and discusses its relationship to academic libraries. Identifies ethical issues of special concern to community college libraries with respect to the provision of high-level services, fair and equitable circulation/service policies, and skillful, unbiased, and courteous…

Reviews the literature on bibliographic instruction in community and junior colleges, focusing on early roles, changing themes, librarians as educators, and the focus on student success. (DMM)

Reports on a national survey of 400 2-year colleges concerning the current status of online activities. Details responses from 207 institutions regarding the provision of online services, vendors used, primary users, costs per search, sources of funding, and search topics. Compares findings with other recent studies. (DMM)

Urges community college libraries to provide and expand services in faculty development. Considers trends toward an increasing emphasis on faculty development, the professional development needs of community college faculty, faculty development methods, consulting services, reward structures for faculty development, and program evaluation. (DMM)

Briefly reviews practices and issues related to bibliographic instruction in community colleges and at Asnuntuck Community College (Connecticut) in particular. Proposes a minicourse on research skills to introduce students to the learning resource center's facilities and services, to the Library of Congress Classification System, and to the card…

Describes the open-concept Library Learning Resource Center (LLRC) operating on the Allentown campus of Pennsylvania State University, focusing on academic computing, instructional services, library services, and a freshman composition/rhetoric course requirement for the completion of a library skills assignment. (DMM)

Students in traditional as well as online classrooms need more than grades from their instructors--they also need meaningful feedback to help bridge their academic knowledge and skills with their daily lives. With the increasing number of online learning classrooms, the question of how to consistently assess online learning has become increasingly…

Compares online literature retrieval with traditional reference services. Discusses the reasons for and against adding online reference services to two-year college libraries and the unique applications online search services may have in the community college environment. (CBC)