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Catherine Cox
Collection Development Librarian
CONTACT
OFFICE: Library
PHONE: 408/855-5165
EMAIL: cathy_cox@wvm.edu
(Students - please email me using ANGEL if you need a prompt response!)
EDUCATION
Master's in Library and Information Science, U.C. Berkeley
Bachelor's in Social Science, San Jose State University
COURSES
Winter 2009:
Library 10, Basic Information Competency
(Click here for more information about this class.)
This is a very fast-paced class, and you will have a lot of homework, but this may be the best one-unit class you ever take! Most of my students in past sections have told me that they wish they'd taken it during their first semester, because it would have made all their other classes sooooo much easier!
OTHER THINGS YOU MIGHT LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT ME
I've been here at Mission College since 1994 (part-time and full-time). As the Collection Development Librarian, I coordinate selection of the books and other materials for the library. I've been teaching library research since the early 1990's, well before the World Wide Web became a part of everyday life. Computers have made research much easier (you can find articles at midnight Saturday night when your paper is due Monday morning) but they've also made it necessary for users to know what they're doing (you can end up with five million sites' worth of garbage!)
From 2006-08 I was President of the Mission College Academic Senate, the faculty organization responsible for overseeing the academic and professional matters of the college, and I'm currently on the Executive Committee of the statewide Academic Senate (the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges). I'm a strong believer in academic freedom and freedom of speech, as well as academic responsibility and integrity.
When I'm not online or hanging out in the library, I read sci-fi and sociology, sing folk songs, and spend time camping outdoors in Renaissance costumes with a historical re-creation group called the S.C.A.
Posted by Cathy Cox on 2/19/08; 1:25:33 PM
from the dept.
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