District 5 met on November 28, 2005 at Cleveland County Community College.

Attending: Susan Vaughn, Gena Moore, Dick Cole, Emily King, Victoria Linder, Barbara McKibbin, Lynn Gambon, Christopher Meister, Engle Troxler, Kenneth Odom, Harry Cooke, Nettie Durant, Fay Byrd.

Program

The meeting began with a presentation by Dru Zuretti, Client Relationship Manager with Copyright Clearance Center. She presented useful information and answered questions concerning current copyright issues, laws, and practices. CCC is now offering a product that allows instructors to obtain copyright permission for work posted in Blackboard through a Blackboard Building Block. The group was shown how the system seeks and manages permissions through requests made by instructors within the Blackboard module.

LRA Conference

Harry Cooke asked for program ideas for next year’s LRA conference in July at Wake Technical Community College. Suggestions and ideas should be sent to Mike Crumpton at Wake Tech.

Personnel News

CPCC – Angela Sox, Senior Librarian for Public Service, has announced her retirement effective December 13, 2005.

Steve Osler, a recent graduate of University of South Florida, will join CPCC in January.

Isothermal – Shirley Holland, circulation technician, retired in March 2005.

Michael Greene, ILL/AV, retired in June 2005.

Engle Troxler joined the staff as Reference/Circulation Librarian in November 2005.

Cleveland – Nettie Durant, Public Services librarian, recently retired. The library has started a search to fill that position.

Spring meeting

The Spring meeting has tentatively been scheduled for the end of march at Isothermal Community College. Susan Vaughn will arrange for a presentation on the current competency assessment and long range planning project at Isothermal. This led to a lively discussion of current library instruction practices at member institutions.

Respectfully submitted,

Amy Burns

Central Piedmont Community College