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Lonergan, David; Ayers, Meredith – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2015
Popular culture is extremely influential in both academe and society at large. However, formal disciplinary study of popular culture lags far behind that influence. Anthropology, film studies, history, musicology, and sociology are only some of the disciplines that frequently include popular culture as a research focus. This article advises on how…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Academic Libraries, Library Development, Library Materials
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Hostetler, Kirsten; DeSilva, Michele – Public Services Quarterly, 2016
Librarians at Central Oregon Community College's Barber Library explored how to best serve the needs of three satellite campuses across a large geographic region. While initially intending to start an embedded librarianship program, a pair of surveys showed the relationships and awareness necessary for the foundation of such a program were…
Descriptors: Multicampus Colleges, Academic Libraries, Community Colleges, Consciousness Raising
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Coltrain, Mark – Journal of Library & Information Services In Distance Learning, 2014
In an era of exploding online enrollment and tight budgets, Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) struggles to meet the needs of online students. CPCC librarians went one step towards solving that problem in 2009-2010 by launching an embedded librarian program. CPCC's program became so successful that it struggled to meet demand. In 2013, CPCC…
Descriptors: Librarians, Professional Development, Community Colleges, Online Courses
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McKay, Devin – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2011
This article describes a library renovation project in a community college that involved using existing space and reorganizing it to support the way students learn both individually and collaboratively. The article also looks at the importance of the academic library as place.
Descriptors: College Libraries, Community Colleges, Two Year Colleges, Higher Education