Strategic planning can be wonderful, it can be disastrous, it can be a waste of time or it can be ignored. Setting an intention, being true to the course and not getting distracted can set an organization up for meaningful growth and nimbleness. Reality is often, well reality. City College of San Francisco undertook anContinue reading
Category Archives: Student Success
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Are We Listening?
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Information literacy – Students need it, Faculty want it
Students come to higher education from a K-12 system that does not fully fund or support their libraries and librarians. A critical deficiency of skills occurs when funding to school libraries is cut, librarians are working in numerous schools and students do not have easy access to scholarly materials, and certified librarians to guide theirContinue reading
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Curiosity, Inquiry and Leaders
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Libraries, the forgotten element to success
On the first days of class students are confused; librarians are here to help. Librarians are often forgotten as an essential ingredient in student success initiatives. This is not okay but librarians are more than an initiative. We are the mortar that keeps the bricks in place. No one department is independently responsible for studentContinue reading