CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY LIBRARY SERVICES AND TECHNOLOGY ACT (LSTA) FISCAL YEAR 2018/2019 PITCH-AN-IDEA LOCAL GRANT APPLICATION

ELEMENT 1: BASIC INFORMATION (please see application instructions for additional information) Applicant Information

1. Library/Organization 2. Library’s DUNS Number Riverside Community College Library 07-360-2724 3. Legal Business Name (must match name registered with Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN))

Riverside City College 4. Project Coordinator Name 5. Project Coordinator Title Daniel Slota Outreach Librarian 6. Email Address 7. Business Phone Number daniel.slota@rcc.edu (951) 328-3696 8. Mailing Address City State Zip

4800 Magnolia, Digital Library Riverside CA 92504

Project Information

9. Project Title Career Vision

10. LSTA Funds Requested $24,562

11. Cash Match & In-Kind $7,963

12. Total Project Cost $32,525 13. California’s LSTA Goals [from FY 2018-2022 Five Year Plan] (Check one goal from the first five goals of the five-year

plan that best describes the project) Goal 1 [equitable access, trusted community space]

Goal 2 [literacy services and learning opportunities]

Goal 3 [innovation, creativity, connections and

collaboration]

Goal 4 [technology to deliver information and services]

Goal 5 [economic development and workforce

innovation]

Please briefly list other FY 2018-2022 Five Year Plan goals to which your project relates, if applicable. N/A

14. Primary Audience(s) for project (Select all that apply.)

Adults Families Immigrants/Refugees Intergenerational Groups

(Excluding Families) Library Staff , Volunteers and/or

Trustees

Low Income Non/Limited English Speaking People with Disabilities People with Limited Functional

Literacy Pre-School Children Rural Populations

School Age Children Senior Citizens Statewide Public Suburban Populations Unemployed Urban Populations Young Adults and Teens

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ELEMENT 2: PROJECT BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY

Describe how this project was identified as a need (include supporting data and statistical information), how it relates to your library’s strategic plan or other local planning documents, what will be accomplished if this project is implemented, and how you will know whether your project is successful. Your summary should relate to activities in the timeline (Element 4).

Riverside City College (RCC) is a Hispanic- and Minority-Serving Institution located in Southern California’s Inland Empire region (an area east of Los Angeles County, centered around the cities of Riverside and San Bernardino). With an annual enrollment of nearly 29,000, RCC’s student population reflects the socioeconomic and ethnic diversity of the region (2016-17 data). Hispanic students represent the largest ethnic group (59.92%). African-American and Asian-American students represent 8.18% and 5.1%, respectively, and 20.7% identify as white; 57% are female. More than 40% of RCC’s students reside in households where a language other than English, primarily Spanish, is spoken. Some 63.7% are low income, based on Pell eligibility. Although located approximately 60 miles from downtown Los Angeles, Riverside in many respects is a world apart. It is the most populous city in the Inland Empire and the county seat of Riverside County the state’s fourth largest county by population. Yet according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Fact Finder 2016 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates, 38.2% of the county’s population lives in poverty, and educationally, only 28.3% have an associate’s degree or higher, compared with 39.6% in California and 38.3% for the United States.

With over 4,000 freshmen arriving on campus directly from high school each year and a six-year completion rate of 50%, including AA/ASs and certificates (15%), and transfers with or without a degree (35%), RCC has begun to focus more intentionally on student success in all aspects and areas.

In seeking to raise the employment levels, and lower the poverty rates in the community, RCC offers a large number of career and technical education programs. While these programs are robust, and enrollment is high, the library would like to help increase the program completion rates by offering materials and services that will address the information needs of students as they navigate these programs and search for gainful employment after completion.

The Riverside City College Library will address the above needs in two ways. We will purchase materials, and we will host a series of Career Vision workshops open to students and the community at large.

Materials: The RCC Library will purchase $12,500 worth of career and vocational books to help meet the information needs of our students. These items will cover a wide subject area that will mirror the certificate programs we offer on our campus. The purpose of these certificate programs is to equip exiting students with the tools they need to succeed in the workforce of their choosing. We offer a number of these certificate programs including: Nursing, welding, automotive technology, cosmetology, culinary arts, air conditioning and refrigeration, graphic design and printing, and computer programing. Technical Services Librarian, Shannon Hammock will produce a list of materials that address the information needs of students in each of our certificate programs by the end of August 2018. This list will be reviewed by the project coordinator and library faculty before purchase. Once books are received, they will be processed, cataloged, and put into circulation in the RCC library. The goal is to have the books on the shelf, ready for student use, by December 2018.

Workshops: The library will host 5 Career Vision workshops on campus and in the community. These Career Vision workshops will be led by Ms. Jamie Beck who is a former California State University career counselor. Two workshops will be held on the RCC campus during the Fall 2018 semester as well as 2 more in the Spring 2018 semester. There will also be a workshop held off campus at the Riverside Public Library. The 4 sessions held on campus will each focus on a different topic that aligns with four of the campus' College and Career Pathways: Career and technical education, Humanities, Nursing, and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics). A 4-hour session held at the public library will be more general in nature and cover the key skills one needs to find and keep meaningful employment. RCC is one of just 20 out of 113 community college campuses in California selected to work on developing its Guided Pathways in partnership with the California Community College Chancellor's Office and Columbia University's Teachers College, Community College Research Center.

The Guided Pathways Model is an integrated, institution-wide approach to student success based on intentionally designed, clear, coherent and structured educational experiences, informed by available evidence, that guide each student effectively and efficiently from her/his point of entry through to attainment of high-quality post-secondary credentials and careers with value in the labor market. Indicators of success of this project will be audiences who report that they feel a greater sense of direction as well as more confidence in their ability to execute a succesful job search.

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ELEMENT 3: PARTNERSHIPS

Please list all formal partners for your project here. Please attach (under Element 7) a copy of your signed agreement with each partner, which outlines the role the partner will play and the resources the partner will contribute. Attach a separate sheet if necessary.

Partner Name Organization Type

(see instructions for valid entries)

Legal Type (see instructions for valid entries)

Role on Project Resources That Partner

Will Contribute (materials/funds/staff)

Riverside Public Library City Public Library Local Government Provide space for community workshop.

They will provide access to the Assembly Room in their Downtown branch for a workshop.

Please list informal partners here - organizations that support your project but with whom you have no formal project agreement in place. Describe how their contributions will help achieve the project’s outputs and outcomes. Attach letters of support under Element 7.

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ELEMENT 4: PLANNING AND EVALUATION

Please answer each area concisely and completely. For section A-F limit responses to four pages. A. Project Intent (Check only one that best describes the project)

Lifelong Learning: Improve users’ knowledge or abilities beyond basic access to information Improve users’ formal education Improve users’ general knowledge and skills

Information Access: Improve access to information Improve users’ ability to discover information resources Improve users’ ability to obtain and/or use information resources

Institutional Capacity: Add, improve or update a library function or operation to further its effectiveness Improve the library workforce Improve the library’s physical and technology infrastructure Improve library operations

Employment & Economic Development: Improve users’ ability to apply information that furthers the status of their jobs and/or businesses

Improve users’ ability to use resources and apply information for employment support Improve users’ ability to use and apply business resources

Human Services: Improve users’ ability to apply information that furthers their personal, family or household circumstances

Improve users’ ability to apply information that furthers their personal, family, or household finances Improve users’ ability to apply information that furthers their personal or family health & wellness Improve users’ ability to apply information that furthers their parenting and family skills

Civic engagement Improve users’ ability to participate in their community Improve users’ ability to participate in community conversations around topics of concern

B. Project Purpose – Short statement which answers the questions: we will do what, for whom, for what expected

benefit(s). The library hopes to greatly increase the information RCC provides its students in the area of workforce readiness.

This greater access to information in the area will help ready students to enter the workforce in a number of lucrative areas. The books purchased will equip students with relevant tools for passing industry employment tests such as the HVAC Test, NCLEX, and C++ programming. Many jobs require passage of industry tests before a person can be considered for employment. Students and community members who attend one of the Career Vision workshops will be given a number of tools and ideas to become proactive in their job search. Jamie Beck will be tailoring the 4 workshops held here on campus so that they align with broad major clusters (Pathways).

C. Anticipated Project Outputs – Quantitative measures of services and/or products to be created/provided. 1. Add 350 employment support books to our circulating collection.

2. 5 workshops will be held (4 on campus and 1 at the Riverside Public Library) 3. We anticipate 30 people will attend each of the 4 workshops held on the RCC campus and 80 will attend the Riverside Public Library workshop for a total of 200 attendees. 4. Create 500 fliers promoting workshops. 5. Create 20 posters promoting workshops. 6. Create 5 online promotions for workshops.

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D. Outcomes. Please select one or more of the outcomes provided by the State Library (see Instructions) that relate to the primary Five Year Plan goal that you selected in Element 1

Goal 5: California libraries contribute to economic development and workforce innovation in their communities. Provide Californians with workforce readiness skills, job training, job-seeking resources, and career development opportunities. From Outcome 2b--Californians discover and participate in learning activities at the library: 95% will report that they learned something by participating in this library activity. 90% will report that they feel more confident about what they just learned. 95% will indicate that they intend to apply when they just learned. 80% will report that they are more aware of resources and services provided by the library. 50% will report that this is their first time taking part in a program in the library.

E. Briefly describe how this project will be financially supported in the future, should it prove successful. Sustaining this project beyond the grant period will happen in two ways:

1. The Riverside City College Library will closely monitor the circulation stats for the items purchased using these grant funds. We anticipate that these books will have a relative high circulation rate because they closely align to our programs offered. These circulation stats will help us determine which items have the highest demand so that we can assign a portion of our future book budget to purchasing new editions of materials in the collection as they become available. 2. The Library will work closely with the counseling department on the RCC campus to see about incorporating portions of the content covered in the Career Vision workshops into their ongoing workshops. The counseling department currently hosts a series of workshops, but only a couple of them currently touch on workforce development.

F. Activities. What activities will be used to accomplish your project and achieve your outcomes? Per IMLS, Activities are actions through which the Intent (Element 4A) of a project is accomplished and which account for at least 10% of the total amount of resources committed to the project. IMLS has identified 4 types of Activities and associated Modes (methods by which the Activity is carried out) Select all that apply to your project and provide descriptions for each.

1. Instruction - Involves an interaction for knowledge or skill transfer and how learning is delivered or experienced. (Check all that apply and provide a description including whether the format will be in-person, virtual, or both)

Program - Formal interaction and active user engagement (e.g., a class on computer skills).

Presentation - Formal interaction and passive user engagement (e.g., an author’s talk),

Consultation - Informal interaction with an individual or group of individuals (library staff or other professional) who provide expert advice or reference services to individuals, units, or organizations.

Other

Description: The library will host 5 Career Vision workshops on campus and in the community. These Career Vision workshops will be led by Ms. Jamie Beck who is a former California State University career counselor. Two workshops will be held on the RCC campus during the Fall 2018 semester as well as 2 more in the Spring 2018 semester. There will also be a workshop held off campus at the Riverside Public Library. The 4 sessions held on campus will each focus on a different topic that aligns with four of the campus' College and Career Pathways: Career and technical education, Humanities, Nursing, and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics). A 4-hour session held at the public library will be more general in nature and cover the key skills one needs to find and keep meaningful employment. In each on-campus workshop participants will get a packet of customized resource materials for their pathway focused on local industry. Ms. Beck will chat with participants as they arrive to customize the program based on their interests and passions and build in time during each workshop to have them connect to the coursework using motivational interviewing techniques to help them discover their values in order to

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redefine the role work plays in their life.

2. Content - Involves the acquisition, development, or transfer of information and how information is made accessible. (Check all that apply and provide a description including whether the format will be physical, digital, or both)

Acquisition - Selecting, ordering, and receiving materials for library or archival collections by purchase, exchange, or gift, which may include budgeting and negotiating with outside agencies (i.e. publishers, vendors) to obtain resources. May also include procuring software or hardware for the purposes of storing and/or retrieving information or enabling the act of experiencing, manipulating, or otherwise interacting with an information resource.

Creation - Design or production of an information tool or resource (e.g., digital objects, curricula, manuals). Includes digitization or the process of converting data to digital format for processing by a computer.

Description - Apply standardized descriptive information and/or apply such information in a standardized format to items or groups of items in a collection for purposes of intellectual control, organization, and retrieval.

Lending - Provision of a library’s resources and collections through the circulation of materials (general circulation, reserves). May also refer to the physical or electronic delivery of documents from a library collection to the residence or place of business of a library user, upon request.

Preservation - Effort that extends the life or use life of a living or non-living collection, the individual items or entities included in a collection, or a structure, building or site by reducing the likelihood or speed of deterioration.

Other

Description: The RCC Library will purchase $12,500 worth of career and vocational books to help meet the information needs of our students. These items will cover a wide subject area that will mirror the certificate programs we offer on our campus. The purpose of these certificate programs is to equip exiting students with the tools they need to succeed in the workforce of their choosing. We offer a number of these certificate programs including: Nursing, welding, automotive technology, cosmetology, culinary arts, air conditioning and refrigeration, graphic design and printing, and computer programing. The Technical Services Librarian will produce a list of materials that address the information needs of students in each of our certificate programs by the end of August 2018. This list will be reviewed by the project coordinator and library faculty before purchase. Once books are received, they will be processed, cataloged, and put into circulation in the RCC library. The goal is to have the books on the shelf, ready for student use, by December 2018.

3. Planning & Evaluation - Involves design, development, or assessment of operations, services, or resources and when information is collected, analyzed, and/or disseminated. (Check all that apply and provide a description including whether the format will be in-house or third-party)

Retrospective - Research effort that involves historical assessments of the condition of a project, program, service, operation, resource and/or user group.

Prospective - Research effort that projects or forecasts a future condition of a project, program, service, operation, resource, and/or user group.

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Description:

4. Procurement – May only be used for projects with an Institutional Capacity Intent (see Element 4A). Includes acquiring or leasing facilities; purchasing equipment/supplies, hardware/software, or other materials (not content) that support general library infrastructure. (Provide a description)

Description:

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Activity July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May June

Prepare list of items to purchase X

Order Books X

Cataloging and Processing of Books X X

Books Shelf Ready X

Promotion of Career Vision Workshops X X X X X X X X X

Career Vision Workshops X X X X X

Grant Reporting X

Creation of promotions for Career Vision Workshops X X X X X

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ELEMENT6: BUDGET

The budget should clearly identify the amounts requested and from what sources. Budget Category LSTA Cash Match

& In-Kind Total

Salaries/Wages/Benefits Cataloging books (Technical Services Librarian) .0185 FTE $0 $827 $827 Project Coordination (Outreach Librarian) .111 FTE $0 $4,298 $4,298 Benefits & Fringe (53.43%) $0 $2,738 $2,738 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

Subtotal $0 $7,863 $7,863 Description:

Consultant Fees Career Vision Workshops (presented by Jamie Beck) $5,500 $0 $5,500 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

Subtotal $5,500 $0 $5,500 Description: Ms. Beck's out-of-the-box approach to the world of work, how to find it, and how to create it through entrepreneurship, is well revered throughout California as she has been offering similar programming for the past 8 years in community library settings and on high school and college campuses. This fee covers the development and delivery of content for five sessions of the workshop.

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Budget Category LSTA Cash Match & In-Kind

Total

Travel $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

Subtotal $0 $0 $0 Description:

Supplies/Materials Career and Vocational Books $12,500 $0 $12,500 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

Subtotal $12,500 $0 $12,500 Description: The RCC Library will purchase $12,500 worth of career and vocational books to help meet the information needs of our students.

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Budget Category LSTA Cash Match & In-Kind

Total

Equipment ($5,000 or more per unit) $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

Subtotal $0 $0 $0 Description:

Services Riverside Public Library Assembly Room Usage $0 $100 $100 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

Subtotal $0 $100 $100 Description: Site for the 5th workshop which is open to the community.

Project Total $18,000 $7,963 $25,963

Indirect Cost Rate Applied 37.5 % Indirect Cost $6,562 $0 $6,562 Check one:

No Indirect Federally negotiated indirect cost rate * Indirect proposed cost rate *

* please attach supporting documentation if required

Description: The indirect cost covers the facilities, business services, and operating costs of overseeing the grant. This is the federally negotiated and approved rate that is applied to all grants at Riverside Community College District.

Grand Total $24,562 $7,963 $32,525

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ELEMENT 7: ATTACHMENTS If you have additional resources that support your grant, please attach after this page

ELEMENT 8: INTERNET CERTIFICATION Check the Appropriate Library Type

Public Library Academic K-12 Multi-Type Special/Other

As the duly authorized representative of the applicant public library, public elementary school library or public secondary school library applying for LSTA funding, I hereby certify that the library is (check only one of the following boxes)

A.

An individual applicant that is CIPA compliant. The applicant library, as a public library, a public elementary school library or public secondary school library, has complied with the requirements of Section 9134(f)(1) of the Library Services and Technology Act.

B.

Representing a group of applicants. Those applicants that are subject to CIPA requirements have certified they are CIPA compliant. All public libraries, public elementary school libraries, and public secondary school libraries, participating in the application have complied with the requirements of Section 9134(f)(1) of the Library Services and Technology Act. The library submitting this application has collected Internet Safety Certifications from all other applicants who are subject to CIPA requirements. The library will keep these certifications on file with other application materials, and if awarded funds, with other project records.

C.

Not Subject to CIPA Requirements. The CIPA requirements do not apply because no funds made available under this LSTA grant program will be used to purchase computers used to access the Internet or to pay for direct costs associated with accessing the Internet.

LIBRARY DIRECTOR SIGNATURE

I have read and support this LSTA Grant Application.

Riverside Community College Library Career Vision Library/Organization Project Name

Terry Welker Library/Learning Resources Administrative Manager Library Director Name Title

Library Director Signature Date

GRANT MONITOR SIGNATURE

I have read and approve this LSTA Grant Application.

Grant Monitor Name

Grant Monitor Signature Date file:mcp/lsta/announceapps&instr/18-19

Riverside

Public Library

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City oJArts &_Innovation

May 9, 2018

To Whom It May Concern:

The Riverside Public Library is excited to partner with the Riverside City College Library on the California State Library Pitch-an-Idea Local Grant.

As a partner the Riverside Public Library w ill host a "Career Visions Workshop" at the Main Library located at 3581 Mission Inn Avenue. This workshop will be of great interest to many library customers and we are happy to waive the $100 room rental fee to have this program free and open to all customers. We anticipate hosting this workshop in winter 2018.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me directly at 951.826.5385 or via email at echristmas@riversideca.gov.

Sincerely,

Erin Christmas

Interim Library Director

Main 3S81 Mission Inn Ave, Riverside, CA 92501 95 I .826. 520 I

Arlanza 8267 Philbin Avenue Riverside, CA 95203 951.826.22 17

Arlington 9556 Magnolia Ave. Riverside, CA 92503 951.826. 229 1

Casa Blanca 2 98 5 Madison St. Riverside, CA 92504 951.826.2120

Eastside 403 3-C Chicago Ave. Rivmide, CA 92507 9S 1.826.2235

La Sierra 4600 La Sierra Ave. Riverside, CA 92505 951 .826.2461

Marcy 6927 Magnolia Ave. Riverside, CA 92506 951 .826.2078

Orange Terrace 200 10-B Orange Terrace Pkwy. Riverside, CA 92508 951.826.2184

0 Administrative Office: 3581 Mission Inn Avenue• Riverside, CA 92501 • tel 951.826.5213 • fax 951.826.5407 • www.riversideca.gov/library