In May 2023 after 15 years working for Palomar College I earned the title of Professor.
When first hired at Palomar in 2008 I was the Branch Center Librarian at the Escondido Center Library. It was wonderful to be awarded tenure in Spring 2012 after successfully completing my Faculty probation. In Fall 2012 I was offered the position of Systems and Technology Librarian due to a colleague’s resignation. I have served in that role now for the bulk of my tenure at Palomar.
During the remainder of this time I have had several additional challenging and fulfilling opportunities as part of the Palomar Library Department. From 2018-2021 I served as a Chair (2019-2020) and Co-Chair (2018 and 2021) for my Department. This role was in addition to my duties as Systems/Technology Librarian. As a Chair and Co-Chair I had specific responsibility for the Library & Information Technology (LIT) Program, assist in preparing the department’s Program & Resource Planning (PRP) documents, and share in the directing and maintaining the Library’s services and resources.
My Systems duties include being the library’s webmaster and the coordinator for our library service platform (LSP). Between 2012-2019 we used an OCLC product, consists of the WorldShare Management Services [WMS] for staff use and WorldCat Discover [WCD] public catalog. Thanks to funding from the state of California Palomar is one of 110 Community College libraries that adopted a statewide LSP in 2019 and went live in January 2020. Our library staff now uses Alma and the general Palomar community uses Primo VE as the public catalog. These ExLibris products are also the LSP used by libraries of the California State Universities and University Libraries.
In addition to my role as Systems Librarian I teach in Palomar’s Library and Information Technology Program (LIT). Currently I’m the Instructor for LT100, Introduction to Libraries and Information Services. The course is fully online and offered every Fall semester. It is 1 of 8 required courses (7 within the LT prefix) to earn a Certificate or Associates degree.