Dave Dowell is the retired director of Cuesta College's Library/LRC. He also helped to found Cuesta's Library/Information Technology Program, which trains library and media center technicians (aka library paraprofessionals) at the certificate level. In his retirement, he continues as adjunct faculty in L/ITP. He graciously took me on a tour of the Library/LRC at Cuesta's San Luis Obispo main campus. We also visited the construction site of the North County Campus library in Paso Robles.
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| Dave Dowell, Ph.D. |
Here are some views of the main campus library:
This building is the library....
...and this side houses LRC and other campus functions.
View 1 from back patio
View 2 from back patio
And, of course, an espresso cart! Many college libraries (e.g., Santa Barbara) have given up enforcing rules against coffee and food in the library. Pasadena (next post) allows such in an atrium area only. Cuesta continues its long-standing food-and-drink ban.
On to the North Campus. SLO County is quite large. Cuesta maintains two campuses and two centers to cover its service population.
The North Campus is large, flat and contains a mixture of temporary and permanent structures. It looks much like photographs of Oxnard College in its early days.
A couple views of the Library/LRC construction site. We were unable to go in the construction zone and look closer. The plans I was shown reflect the mix of group study rooms, tutoring facilities and other amenities found in modern academic libraries.
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