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Library Bulletin: 2024 - 2025

 

Library Bulletin

 

Join us in celebrating our achievements in supporting student success, collaboration, and engagement for the academic year.

2024 - 2025

Contents

 

Staff

Statistics

Updates

Displays

Faculty Support

Student Engagement

Library Survey

Library Science 101 (Honors & Regular)

Statistics  

 

Library Instruction Sessions (LIS) – in-depth research principles tailored to the course research assignment, generally scheduled during the class meeting. 

Notable student quotes during two different LIS sessions: 

"I didn't know a library has all this information!" 

"Now I understand how to do research, I was doing it all wrong."

Total Sessions In Person: Library Classroom Synchronous Zoom Off-Site, In-Person Number of Students Served
23 21 0 2 Aprox. 920

 

Pathway/College Club Workshop

Future Medical Leaders Club
14 Students

 

Library Success Tour (LST) – [enrolled students, counseling courses] this is a nonspecific research assignment-based library tour focusing on student success, research sources, and career support. It begins in the LLRC lobby as a walking tour and ends in the library classroom with an interactive computer demo (LLRC #223).

Total Sessions Number of Students Served
11 352

 

Outreach Tour (LLRC Services) – prospective students.

Number of Tours Number of Prospective Students Served
6 144

 

Reference Desk

Number of Students Served
795

 

1 : 1 Research & Citation Appointments

Total Sessions In-Person Zoom Duration
25 17 8 45-90 minutes per session

 

Computer Pod - Location: LLRC 1st floor, desktop computers. Allows instructors to work 1:1 or together as a class, gets students acquainted with studying in the library, and provides immediate access to a librarian at the reference desk. Very close proximity to the presentation room (if the instructor needs a room to demo computer instructions to the class).

Total Sessions Number of Students Served
- -

 

Study Rooms – Eight rooms, ranging in occupancy of 4 - 6

Number of Reservations Average Duration Used
2,936 2 hours and 14 minutes

 

Presentation Room – LLRC first floor

Number of Reservations Average Duration Used
134 2 hours and 14 minutes

 

Conference Room

Number of Reservations Average Duration Used
5 60 minutes

 

Databases (electronic periodicals) - total searches

ProQuest EBSCOhost Gale NewsBank Streaming Films (4 databases) eBooks (# databases)
97,780 557,053 5,096 468 3,083

Ebsco 122,443

Gale 1,120

 

Physical Checkouts

Print Books Reserve Collection Laptops
128 340

43

 

Library Website

Views
54,912

 

Citation Guide Views

APA CMS MLA
6,044 835 16,611

 

Zero Textbook Classes Guide: a student guide to registering for zero textbook cost classes total guide views

Views
124

 

Number of people entering the LLRC (including people attending activities and meetings as well as those requiring no staff services).

Total Fall 2024 Spring 2025
54,825 26,195 28,630
Faculty Support 

 

Library Instruction Session (LIS)

Pathway or College Club - New!

Library Collaboration - New!

Library Success Tour (Counseling Dept.)

LLRC Computer Request Form

Zero Cost & Low Cost Textbook Classes

PrepSTEP & Canvas

Course (Research) Guides

Reserve Materials

Special Programs & Services (SPS)

E-Reserves

Suggest a Purchase

Library Science 101

 

Fall 2025 Offerings

 

Staff

 

Full Time

Librarians Jonathon Lee Tamar Khajadourian

Library Technicians

Traci Liley Denise Fa'amasino

Part Time

Librarians William Bermeo Cynthia Orozco
Library Technicians Jose Guzman Monica Castillo

 L+LRC Hours

Fall '24 Hours M-Thur. 8 a.m. - 7 p.m. Friday 8 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Spring '25 Hours M-Thur. 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. Friday 8 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Updates 
Technology

 

All computers in the LLRC have been updated to the InTune units, software, and login. 

  • Computer pod
  • Practice Presentation Room
  • Library Classroom

Thank you, IT Department!  :)  

Collection Locations

 

  • Library of Congress subject classifications have been added to call number signs (Stacks, 2nd floor)
  • Special collections have moved (Stacks, 2nd floor)
    • Cultural Equity
    • ESL
    • Graphic Novels
    • Puente
  • Fiction location has moved (Stacks, 2nd floor)
  • Reference collection is being weeded and relocated
Participation Partnerships

 

Library Shelfie

 

Do you counsel a pathway or mentor a college club?

 

Library Collaborations

  • Discover ways to collaborate with the LAHC Library to enhance student success and engagement in your course.
Displays
Circulation Department Creations
Book Displays

Science Department Collaboration

Science Department Collaboration

History of Libraries, Types of Libraries, & Censorship

History of Libraries, Types of Libraries, & Censorship

History of Libraries, Types of Libraries, & Censorship

History of Libraries, Types of Libraries, & Censorship

Self-Growth, Healthy Relationships, & Worldwide Romantic Traditions

Self-Growth, Healthy Relationships, & Worldwide Romantic Traditions

Self-Growth, Healthy Relationships, & Worldwide Romantic Traditions

Student Engagement
Post-it Wall
2025
Project Poetry
Back Through the Decades
Library Blog