From: Deborah Hunt (dhunt@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 - 10:44:53 PST
Message-Id: <a05111b0bba928c99941c@[192.174.2.158]> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:44:53 -0800 From: Deborah Hunt <dhunt@exploratorium.edu> Subject: Foothill College Library Tech program to close
As a part-time instructor in the Diablo Valley College library tech
program, I was saddened to hear about the latest cut that will
certainly affect all of us. These programs (including the one at
CCSF) turn out great library techs.
We can all help out though.
See below.
Deb
>***
From my colleague, John Fogle, at Foothill, with his permission to post:
>Foothill College is terminating the 33-year-old Library Technology
>Program at the end of the spring, 2003 quarter. As many as 23
>first-year students are going to be stranded unless the
>administration gets the money to pay for the three second-year
>classes.
They are being referred to CCSF's and the Diablo Valley program, and
I have been making them aware of online programs such as Cuesta's,
but the death of the LT Program in Silicon Valley is a big hit for
current and potential students and the information community.
I have been fighting to get the Foothill administration to let us
seek grants to underwrite the program for a year or two while we
expanded it to reach underrepresented groups in the info/library
field (such as Latinos) and to port a much of the program online as
reasonable, but we can't do that, can't even get help from the
Foothill-De Anza Foundation, without the administration's approval.
>If you know people in the SLA who might be interested in writing to
>the Foothill College administration to say how important the program
>is, please tell them that the below should be contacted.
>Penny Patz (patzpenny@fhda.edu) Vice President of Technology and Instruction
>Bernadine Fong (fongbernadine@fhda.edu) President of Foothill College
>Walter Scott (scottwalter@fhda.edu) Library Coordinator
>
>I hope your Diablo Valley program continues, as well as the CCSF
>program. In this time of ever-greater access to information
>resources, you know as well as I that we need even more personnel
>with information skills. I do not know why it so hard to convince
>some people of that fact.
>
>Cheers,
>John Hogle
>Associate Librarian, De Anza and Mission Colleges (For the moment)
>Instructor, Library Technology Program, Foothill College (For three
>more weeks)
>jhogle@blueroom.com
>408 296 2089
-- Deborah Hunt CTL Senior Information Specialist Exploratorium 3601 Lyon Street San Francisco, CA 94123 Voice: 415-353-0485 Fax: 415-561-0370 mailto:dhunt@exploratorium.edu"A woman is like a tea bag; she never knows how strong she is until she's in hot water." Eleanor Roosevelt
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