In every team and department at Northwest Vista College, there are always great stories to tell that show faculty and staff going above and beyond.While it’s hard to capture every story, we hope to periodically share in this space some of the major accomplishments or projects that are taking place. Members of the executive team will write about important topics that they feel NVC employees should be made aware of.
Let us know about the positive things your area is doing to help students or improve processes by contacting myself or NVC Marketing & Strategic Communications.
– Dr. Ric Baser, NVC President
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Patrick R. Fontenot
Dean, Academic Success
Academic Support Services
Recently, Northwest Vista College librarians participated in the Libraries and Veterans National Forum. The forum was intended to engage library workers from all types of libraries in working with the veteran and military communities.
The Libraries and Veterans National Forum was born out of efforts from librarians at the Texas A&M University Libraries and their desire to better learn from other libraries’ efforts to support the veteran and military communities. Attendees had the opportunity to share their success stories, brainstorm solutions to their challenges, and gain new ideas to bring back to their libraries.
This online forum allowed participants from a variety of library types, to share their strategies with school librarians, and academic librarians to determine if there exists new opportunities for partnerships with government librarians. Many libraries have not yet begun efforts to serve their veteran and military communities. Attendees will develop and work on creating an online toolkit. This toolkit will contain lesson plans, program outlines, collection development policies, best practice documents, and much more to help ease the way for those just getting started in this work to serve our veteran communities.
NVC Librarian Rose Rodriguez was selected to be part of the Libraries & Veterans Toolkit Committee after attending the two-week forum. She was chosen based on her inclusive programming ideas and her commitment to serve NVC veterans. Committee members will work together to share programs, services, strategies, policies, and other tips for working with veterans. Efforts by Rose and the other NVC library staff will contribute to toolkit program ideas, exhibits, lesson plans, documents, collection development plans, and events that will be shared with other libraries use in engaging their own veterans.