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Faculty Toolbox for the CBC Library

Use this guide to determine the best way for you to integrate librarians into your instruction

We're Here to Support Your Work

Whether you're new to higher ed or keeping abreast of changes in how modern libraries work, the number one thing to know is:
academic libraries are your instructional partners on campus!


Your faculty librarian peers have expertise in information sciences, pedagogy and andragogy, curriculum design, assessment, digital and information literacy, research methodologies, knowledge management and information retrieval, and countless other areas of academic engagement.

Additionally, faculty librarians have the unique advantage of bridging the gap between student services and instruction, between disciplines, between campuses, and between faculty perspectives. If you're looking to break down institutional silos and increase cross-disciplinary collaboration, working with a librarian is a fantastic way to get started!

Why Integrate Library Instruction?

  • Saves YOU time!
    • No need to design your own research lectures, modules or assignments, let us do it for you!
    • Library instruction is highly customizable and can be adapted to meet the demands, limits, and structures of your individual courses.
  • Leverage the expertise of your faculty librarians
    • Not sure how information/digital/metaliteracy fits into your course but you can tell that your students need the skills? We're experts in this!
  • Prepares students to be successful for transfer or graduate programs

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Sarah E. North
Director for Library Services
snorth@columbiabasin.edu                                                                                                                                                                                         

Liaison and Support Areas:
Transitional Studies
Special Academic Programs
Copyright Questions
Open Educational Resources                                                        

 

About Me:

I started as the Director for Library Services in May of 2019 and have loved getting to know the CBC community. My library-related interests include Spanish Language collections (hablo un poquito de español), collecting and promoting CBC Employee Publications, information literacy instruction, student outreach efforts and how the Library can play a role in student retention.

My personal hobbies include tabletop RPGs, working on my home improvement skills, crafty ventures, and sharing pictures of my dog.

Favorite Books: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

 

Mary-Alice Correa

mcorrea@columbiabasin.edu

About me:

I started at the CBC library in 2019 as the Technical Services paraprofessional. Since then, I have moved to the Circulation Supervisor position and hope to continue to grow in this amazing environment. I oversee all aspects of library circulation, including patron accounts, circ policies, and student employees. My personal hobbies include painting, drawing, reading, and binge watching my favorite series.

Favorite Books: Outlander (Gabaldon), The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Reid), The Yellow Wallpaper (Gilman)

Joshua Westbrook

jwestbrook@columbiabasin.edu

About me:

I started working at CBC as a Program Assistant in February of 2020. I recently moved into the position of Technical Services Supervisor at the CBC library and greatly enjoy working with the library team. My work involves cataloging library materials and overseeing how they are processed, as well as managing our course reserve collections, and interlibrary loan services. My personal hobbies include flower and vegetable gardening, getting lost in open world videogames, and reading.
Favorite Books: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong and Memorial by Bryan Washington

 

Kat Chesley

kchesley@columbiabasin.edu

About me:

 

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Stephen Badalamente
Senior Associate Librarian
sbadalamente@columbiabasin.edu

 

 


Liaison and Support Areas:
School of Computer Science
School of Social & Behavioral Sciences

About Me:
I have been a faculty librarian at Columbia Basin College since 1994 and helped the library move into the internet age; I still do a lot of support work for our online resources. I am the library liaison to the schools of Computer Science and the Social & Behavioral Sciences. My undergraduate degree was in history and I enjoy research in that discipline, as well as within the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning.

Favorite Books: The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead, Lord of the Rings (Tolkien), Alice in Wonderland (Carroll), 1984 (Orwell), Something Wicked This Way Comes (Bradbury), Consider Phlebas (Banks) 

 

Fatima Machado
Assistant Professor of Library Services
fmachado@columbiabasin.edu

 

 

Liaison and Support Areas:
School of Career and Technical Education
School of Math, Science & Engineering

 

About Me:

Neck deep in a global pandemic, I started working online as a librarian for CBC in fall of 2020. It’s been a weird and fun time getting to know the wonderful CBC community virtually!

Prone to asking a lot of questions... I get jazzed about information literacy, student engagement, and research. I find working collaboratively with faculty, staff, and students extremely rewarding and fun. 

When not doing my duties as a librarian… I enjoy playing video games and reading horror novels. In addition, I am an artist with a strong interest in entertainment design and animation.
 

 

 

Molly Mooney
Associate Professor of Library Services
mmooney@columbiabasin.edu  

 

 

 Liaison and Support Areas:
School of Arts, Humanities, and Communications
School of Business
CBC Archives Request

About Me:
I started as an adjunct English instructor in 2015 before eventually moving to my permanent home in the library in 2016. My library-related interests include processing the CBC Archives, providing information literacy instruction, developing the children’s book collection, and figuring out how to better incorporate the library into daily student life. 
My non-work time is spent hanging out with my two enormous dogs and three regular-sized cats, reading, writing, playing board games, and making a wide variety of stuff out of paper, fabric, and sometimes hair. 

Favorite Books: Eating the Cheshire Cat by Helen Ellis, Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton, Final Girls by Daphne Gottlieb, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, Choke Hold by Christa Faust

 


Ying Yu
Senior Associate Librarian
yyu@columbiabasin.edu 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

 

Liaison and Support Areas:
School of Health Sciences
School of Education

 

About Me:
I started working for the CBC library in 2004 and since 2013, I have been the librarian mainly for the CBC Health Sciences Library located on the Richland campus. My library-related interests include supporting instructional faculty and teaching classes on research strategies and database searching skills, working with students one-on-one for research consultations and APA citation questions, evaluating electronic resources and helping to setup and troubleshoot remote access, and trying to give helpful inputs for any CBC committees that I am involved with. 


My personal hobbies include parenting : ), audio books, popular songs in Chinese, SUP, hiking, and cooking very involved dishes while following instructions from YouTube, but only when I feel inclined to ...

 

 

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