Kaua‘i community college

Library

Since Hurricane Iniki in 1992, two industrial dehumidifiers have been in continuous operation on both floors of the library 24 hours a day. The dehumidifiers help control the growth of mold and provide air circulation in the library’s collection. They serve as the frontline defense in preservation of the collection. Manual cleaning of each individual item in the collection has been performed in the past.

Security measures in the library include three Checkpoint security gates. Two are at the front entrance and exit while the third is located at the entrance to Media Services. In selected areas, security cameras are present to discourage theft. The cameras also provide surveillance of the facility.
Overall security for The Learning Resource Center involves staffing responsible for their assigned areas. Each unit has their own separate entrances and is responsible for the opening and closing of the facilities. Staff is always present to monitor student and visitor activity in the library and TLC.

The Learning Center

The Learning Center has an internal and external lock on the front door to the room, and an internal lock on the back door. The tests that are administered by the Learning Center staff are kept in locked file cabinets. Only faculty and non-student staff have access to the locked files. The computers in the Center and other labs on the campus require students to obtain a password from Computer Services.

Computer Services

The Campus’ server rooms and wiring closets are locked and are restricted to the appropriate staff. Standard practices have been applied in securing our network and computing resources. Computer Services is currently undergoing a risk assessment process.

Self Evaluation

Library

The Checkpoint security gates were upgraded in 2000 and the number of gates was increased from one to three in order to provide more security at every access point into the library. The most recent servicing of Checkpoint was during the Spring 2006 semester.

During 2004 the library underwent a safety and fire inspection by the state fire inspection crew. Steps were taken to improve the safe environment of the library. Several years prior to this inspection hazardous material were already eliminated from the library’s supply inventory. During the past year the entire campus, including the library, was retrofitted with a new fire alarm system with both audio and visual signals. Emergency procedures are in place to evacuate students and personnel from the building with the onset of the fire alarm. There are multiple exit doors at various points within the library.
The library maintains a record of delinquent patrons in the Voyager System together with accrued fines and items that have not been returned to the library. Missing items on shelves are evaluated for replacement or removal from the Voyager records. Any incidents of theft or other criminal activity are reported to the administration.
The college meets the standard.

Planning Agenda

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II.C.1.e. When the institution relies on or collaborates with other institutions or other sources for library and other learning support services for its instructional programs, it documents that formal agreements exist and that such resources and services are adequate for the institution’s intended purposes, are easily accessible, and utilized. The performance of these services is evaluated on a regular basis. The institution takes responsibility for and assures the reliability of all services provided either directly or through contractual agreement.
Descriptive Summary

Library

Consortium agreements provide the library with valuable resources at costs lower than if the library had a single contract with a vendor. The library has consortium agreements with the Hawai‘i Library Consortium and Medical Libraries Consortium of Hawai‘i. EbscoHost, the library’s primary online database is delivered through the Hawai‘i Library Consortium that consists of academic, public, and school libraries in the state. In 2005 the library added a new electronic resource called OVID through a consortium of medical and academic libraries in Hawai‘i. This database, which consists of full-text medical and nursing journals, serves the nursing program on campus. Other online databases available to the college through the UH consortium include ScienceDirect, CQ Researcher, and CINAHL (Library Program Review – Appendix 47 – Bylaws of the Hawai‘i Library Consortium).

Another working agreement among the UH Libraries is the intrasystem loan (ISL) that allows students access to circulating material at all campuses (Library Program Review – Appendices 42-44 – Libraries of the University of Hawai‘i System Loan Policy, Intrasystem Loan Procedures and Intrasystem Lending Policies). Students and faculty can borrow books and order articles (less than 50 pages) without charge. Since the adoption of the ISL System and the growth in the number of full-text subscription databases, the number of requests for articles from other libraries has fallen, while the number of requests for books has increased. Students in all library instruction classes are informed of the interlibrary loan service.
All 10 campuses of the UH System have had a shared online catalog, UH Voyager, since 2000. Users can either search for materials in the KCC Library or search the holdings of all UH System libraries at one time. Students in library instruction classes are taught how to search for materials in the KCC Library (>50,000 titles) and the entire UH Voyager Catalog (> 4 million items).
Another agreement specific to cataloging is the library’s subscription to the cataloging management system called OCLC. This database assists technical services in the use of the cataloging module in Voyager. The library’s contractual agreement with the vendor is based on a rider in the UH agreement.
The Learning Center
The TLC provides test-proctoring services to distance instructors and learners outside of the UH System, there are no formal or contractual agreements with other academic institutions or organizations. The college has its own test-proctoring fee scale in place and the colleges that require proctoring services varies each semester. All requests for proctoring are initiated by the institution or individual.