Services to Developmental Education Students in the Community College: Does the Library Have a Role?

Support for Literacy Education in Academic Libraries

“…Even here, the college library represents only one segment of a larger library sample. On a smaller scale, Phifer and Person, 6 Truett, 7 and Shaughnessy 8 also examined academic library services to support literacy education. Both Truett and Shaughnessy found evidence of only low levels of library support for such college programs.…”

The Necessary Library Revolution in Community College Developmental and Remedial Programs

“…15 Two-thirds of community college librarians in Texas felt that the services and support they provided were adequate, yet many opined that the college should offer more services to disadvantaged students. 16 Bibliographic Instruction (BI) is one of the most important services any community college LRP provides. And while discipline faculty and administrators understand the importance of specially instructing remedial students by offering separate remedial courses, librarians do not seem to understand the importance of specially instructing remedial students.…”

Learning Resource Services in the Community College: On the Road to the Emerald City

“…Carol Truett has documented the lack of community college LRS programs geared to disadvantaged students. 75 With its systems of complicated storage and retrieval procedures, the LRS can be a forbidding place to disadvantaged students. Specific programs designed to deal with both the affective and cognitive needs of these students are required if LRS programs are to serve this group of students more effectively.…”