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Connecting Incarcerated College Students To Digital Learning Resources, Ethan Annis
Connecting Incarcerated College Students To Digital Learning Resources, Ethan Annis
Archbishop Alemany Library | Faculty Presentations
These slides accompanied the presentation, Connecting Incarcerated Students to Digital Resources, which was delivered on April 1, 2022, during the general session, at the CARL-ACRL conference. The slides describe Ethan Annis' experience, between December 2019 - March 2022, of leading efforts to incorporate technology and library services into the education of students at Mount Tamalpais College, which educates ~300 incarcerated students inside San Quentin. When Ethan started, there were no computers for student use. By the end of March 2022 there were 35 laptops inside (plus 25 ordered), every student had a Canvas account, computer literacy assessment, tutoring and …
Transforming Our Library Reading Room For A Leisure Reading Collection, Suzanne Roybal
Transforming Our Library Reading Room For A Leisure Reading Collection, Suzanne Roybal
Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship
For our poster presentation, we wanted to highlight the success of our renovated reading room and the addition of a leisure reading collection in an academic library. One of the goals of our library strategic plan is to improve service to our community and to change the philosophical perception of our library so the students would have an inviting place to satisfy both heir educational and entertainment needs. Our drab 1960’s style reading room was the ideal location to refurbish and to locate our new leisure reading collection of books and magazines. To provide a pleasant environment for the students …