07/22/1998MINUTES
LIBRARY BOARD AND STAFF BUS TRIP
July 22-23, 1998
The following people boarded the SPJC bus at the District office for a two-day field trip to Broward County to view joint public/junior college libraries. CPLS board: Estelle Dunn,
Howard Adler, Lois Martin, Christine Morris. CPLS staff: Arlita Hallam, Tereasa Roose, Georgina Ata, Linda Hamrell, Ann Scheffer, Matthew Moore, Carolyn Moore, Vivien Ingersoll, Marsha
McGrath. SPJC staff: Susan Anderson, Antoinette Caraway, Mary Jane Marden, Joyce Burkhart. Seminole Library Board and Friends: Betty Blackford and Mary Meyers. Dr. Carl Kuttler,
SPJC President, joined the group on the second day.
On Wednesday afternoon, the group toured the 15-year-old South Regional Library at Pembroke Pines, which was the first public library/junior college joint facility. They are open 76
1/2 hours per week and have 64 employees. The building is 66,000 square feet, with a collection of 200,000 volumes. The library and learning resources center are now separate, but
will be merged when the facility is expanded by 40,000 square feet. All of the library staff are public library employees except one faculty liaison. All learning resources center
staff are college employees. Parking is a challenge, but they are trying to channel students to parking closer to the classroom buildings.
We then toured the Broward County Main Library in Fort Lauderdale and learned about some of their partnership programs, including the recently-established Nations Bank Small Business
Resource Center with a $500,000 donation.
The group spent the night at the Riverside Hotel on Las Olas Boulevard.
On Thursday morning, we toured the University/College Library which is a joint facility for Florida Atlantic University, Florida International University, and Broward County Community
College. It is 140,000 square feet and was constructed for $14,500,000.
Dr. Carl Kuttler joined the group and told about his plans for SPJC and five universities which will be joining SPJC to give four-year degrees. He described the community college of
the future as a mall for certificate programs and degrees, brokering classroom space. Smart classrooms are being planned for all SPJC facilities.
In the afternoon, the group toured the North Campus at Coconut Creek. This public/junior college library is totally merged and was constructed in 1994.
The group returned to the SPJC District office at 7:00 p.m.