The Los Angeles Time Library

The Los Angeles Times Library

Barret Havens, MLIS

University Librarian

MISSION

The library is dedicated to enriching the Woodbury campus community through the expansion of knowledge and creativity. We seek to build and preserve resource collections that meet the current and future curricular, research, intellectual, creative, and professional needs of the University. In pursuit of this mission, the library strives for excellence in the quality of its programs, services, and resources.

FACULTY

Karla Bluestone, Instruction Coordinator/Participating Adjunct Faculty, MLIS, San Jose State University

Ayanna Gaines, Student Success Librarian/Associate Professor, MLIS, Dominican University

Barret Havens, University Librarian/Associate Professor, MLIS, University of Texas at Austin

L. Nedra Peterson, Professor Emerita, MA, University of Arizona

Ani Amirkhanian, Library Public Services Assistant/WUFA Administrative Assistant

Elsie Aromin, Library Technical Services Coordinator

Melissa Camaiore, Archivist & Library Cataloger

Kathleen Glover, Library Public Services Coordinator

LIBRARY PHYSICAL SPACES

The library’s physical spaces provide access to collections that encourage creativity and exploration in a technologically and aesthetically inviting environment. Comfortable lounge-type seating is arranged throughout the facility, which also features wireless access to the internet. In addition to 5 Windows workstations and 4 Mac workstations that are networked to printers and always available to students, the library electronic classroom houses an additional 16 desktop computer workstations in a lab setting, which are available for student use whenever the space is not reserved for classes.

COLLECTIONS AND SERVICES

The library supports the University’s mission by collecting, preserving, and providing access to information resources that support teaching and learning in the context of Woodbury’s academic programs. Within the library collections, resources for research and inspiration are discipline-focused as well as transdisciplinary. Those resources include approximately 337,000 print-based and electronic books, 16,000 films (streaming and DVD), 287 print journals, and 101,000 digital journals/magazines. Access to the library’s online catalog and digital resources is available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. The library utilizes wide-ranging borrowing agreements such as inter-library loan in order to provide access to materials held by other institutions.

Research assistance—ranging from quick answers to simple questions to in-depth research consultations with librarians—is readily available. Simply ask for assistance at any of the on-site service desks, or use online chat or email-based reference services accessible via the library website (library.woodbury.edu).

The library provides a dynamic instruction program to support students in locating, evaluating, and using information ethically and effectively. As a part of this instruction program, librarians teach 1-unit courses that satisfy the University’s information literacy requirement for graduation. Additionally, librarians are available to provide guest lectures that are geared towards preparing students for research-intensive assignments in individual courses.

Library hours of operation vary throughout the year to accommodate the academic cycle. Current hours are posted on the library website (library.woodbury.edu).

The Woodbury ID card serves as a library card for borrowing library materials.

LIBRARY PERFORMANCE STANDARDS

Assessment of the effectiveness of the Woodbury library in fulfilling its mission is based on guidelines established in the Standards for Libraries in Higher Education as developed by the Association of College and Research Libraries, and addresses the following goals:

· The Woodbury library provides an environment that is conducive to study and learning.

· The library promotes and maintains useful and effective services in support of the library’s and the University’s instructional programs.

· The library builds and maintains diverse, up-to-date, authoritative collections in order to assist students in achieving their educational goals, to support the curriculum, and to support faculty research needs.

· The library’s management and systems are effective and efficient, culminating in a well-run organization supported by programmatic self-reflection, adaptation to Woodbury’s evolving academic community needs, and personnel committed to continued professional growth.