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Rothlisberg, Allen P. – 1992
This report describes how courses offered by the Department of Library/Media Technology at Northland Pioneer College (Arizona) can be effective in bridging the gap between the professionally trained master's degree librarian and the untrained library clerk or volunteer. The courses, which are typically offered on weekends, are designed to…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Librarian Attitudes, Library Education, Library Personnel
PDF pending restorationRothlisberg, Allen P. – 1992
Northland Community College, which serves rurally isolated northeastern Arizona, offers a three-credit course for persons who are operating one-person libraries located throughout the area. Part of the library/media technology curriculum, the course covers: (1) library organization (duties and responsibilities of the library board and the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Course Descriptions, Library Administration, Library Education
PDF pending restorationRothlisberg, Allen P. – 1992
The Department of Library/Media Technology at Northland Pioneer College (Arizona) provides librarians in rurally isolated Navajo and Apache Counties in northeastern Arizona with for-credit, one-day classes tailored to their specific needs. Students receive 0.5 to 1.0 hours of permanent, transcripted credit for each workshop. Up to 3 credit hours…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Course Descriptions, Credit Courses, Extension Education
Rothlisberg, Allen P. – 1988
This paper considers various ways in which InfoPower, the recently instituted library/media technology program at Northland Pioneer College in Arizona, can assist in the training of professional librarians and paraprofessional library staff, particularly those in rural, isolated areas who may not be able to attend traditional classes. The need for…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Distance Education, Higher Education, Learning Resources Centers
Download full textRothlisberg, Allen P. – 1993
Papers on two projects are presented that deal with the effective use of volunteers in rural public libraries. The first paper on simplifying manual circulation techniques, explains a circulation system that volunteers in a rural library can use easily and efficiently. Setting only four due dates a month and filing all materials alphabetically in…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Library Administration, Library Circulation, Library Materials
Rothlisberg, Allen P. – 1992
The Northland Pioneer College (NPC) Library staff has developed a media blitz strategy to publicize its services in rural Arizona. This strategy regularly draws upon a database of newspapers, radio stations, and cable television outlets in the area. Each week a different public service announcement is developed and sent out to agencies on the…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Community Colleges, Databases, Information Dissemination
Rothlisberg, Allen P. – 1992
Rural Arizona libraries received a severe blow when the Arizona Inter-Library Loan Center closed because of lack of funds. No northeastern Arizona libraries have been invited to join a new Arizona database, which is a spin-off of OCLC, and none of these rural libraries are in OCLC. The libraries will also have to pay long distance and user fees to…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Community Colleges, Consortia, Interlibrary Loans
Rothlisberg, Allen P. – 1991
This report describes how the bibliographic instruction program at the learning resource center of Arizona's Northland Pioneer College (NPC) tries to encourage potential patrons to become aware of, and use, the library's services. It is noted that NPC serves a widely scattered geographic area with a diverse, isolated service population which is…
Descriptors: American Indians, Course Content, Course Objectives, Learning Resources Centers
Rothlisberg, Allen P. – 1989
This paper describes the development of a public library in Clay Springs, a rural community in Navajo County in northeastern Arizona, with neither financial support from taxes (the town is not incorporated and there is no county library) nor the services of a professional librarian. Descriptions are included of: (1) activities that promoted…
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Fund Raising, Library Development, Library Education
PDF pending restorationRothlisberg, Allen P. – 1992
Work study students at Northland Pioneer College's Learning Resource Centers in Arizona are required to take a one-unit class entitled Learning Resource Center Survival Skills. Students who successfully complete the course will have mastered 18 skills needed to perform their duties at the resource centers. Assignment of a grade for this course…
Descriptors: Accountability, Behavioral Objectives, Community Colleges, Competence
Rothlisberg, Allen P. – 1992
This paper describes the approaches taken to improve library service at Northland Pioneer College, a decentralized community college in rural Arizona with learning resource centers at 10 locations in Navaho and Apache counties. Three methods of providing instruction for research papers--class tours of learning resource facilities, presenting guest…
Descriptors: American Indians, College Libraries, Community Colleges, Decentralization
Rothlisberg, Allen P. – 1992
This report describes a course in Church Librarianship (LIB 220) that is offered by Northland Pioneer College's (NPC) Department of Library/Media Technology Program. The college has been able to promote unity in an area which is culturally and religiously diverse by offering a 3-credit course that provides an introduction to church librarianship.…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Churches, Course Descriptions, Library Collection Development
