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Pleasant Hill, CA Diablo Valley College (DVC) is one of three colleges in the Contra Costa Community College District. DVC serves more than 22,000 students of all ages each year and is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. A Library Building Addition and Remodel, which will incorporate enhanced telecommunications, an electronic classroom, a library instruction lab, and an expanded and "wired" reference reading room, is scheduled to begin construction this summer. Planning is underway for a new campus center and a Contra Costa County/City of San Ramon/ Diablo Valley College Joint-Use Library in a new development in the Dougherty Valley. DVC has been an Innovative library since 1990. Its integrated system includes library holdings from the college's San Ramon Valley Center, materials held in Media Services, and, in 1996, Contra Costa and Los Medanos Colleges joined the system to make a joint catalog of the Contra Costa Community College District libraries. The total database has 135,834 bibliographic records and 168,707 item records. The database uses scoping for access to local and consortium wide information. The libraries are also "partners" with several other local Innovative libraries: Alameda County, Berkeley Public, and California State University Hayward. The College was also a beta test site for Millennium Circulation, and Advanced Keyword Searching. The Library currently uses the Web OPAC, Web Management Reports, Web Access Management, Advanced Keyword Searching, Circulation, and Serials. The library will soon be ready to implement Millennium acquisitions. Diablo Valley College is committed to using technology to enhance teaching and learning. The Library's vision is to lead the college in the management of information resources and in the creative and effective use of new technologies that promotes student success. According to Library Director Mary Dolven, "Innovative's Millennium software provides us with the infrastructure necessary to work toward that vision by providing students and faculty with easy access to information in our collections, and our sister college's collections both at our library and from remote sites. In 1990 we initially selected Innovative Interfaces because of the ease of use of the text-based catalog." She also adds, "The ease of use and functionality of the system have consistently improved. In the last decade we have benefited greatly from the development of the web-based products and enhancements for library patrons and 'backroom' library operations." |
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