Library technology news and updates

  • Spring semester the Library Technology Program is offering a new elective class: "Digital Assets: Tools and Methodologies". Jackie Jay, Digital Archivist and Librarian for the Internet Archive, the San Francisco Opera, and the Bay Area Video Coalition, will teach this course. Jackie lists her credentials this way:  "Personal organizer for the dead (or people who are living really interesting lives). Promoter for events already given. Time traveler. Story teller." Students enrolled in this course will learn to create, assess, preserve, and manage digital assets, such as documents, photographs, and audiovisual media, and can look forward to informative field trips and hands-on experience using state-of-the-art scanning equipment. This late start course begins March 13, meeting Wednesday evenings from 6-8:50pm.
  • Check out the Library Technology program in the fall issue of Career Focus magazine.

  • LT Graduates Now Eligible to Receive Prestigious ALA - LSSC Certification. This fall the DVC Library Technology program joined the ranks of only a few community colleges nationwide to have received a Library Support Staff Certification (LSSC) recognition agreement from the American Library Association-Allied Professional Association (ALA-APA), which permits DVC LT graduates to receive the LSSC certificate. Earning the certificate confirms that the graduate has mastered a nationally-adopted set of skills and competencies. Check out the LSSC website for more details.