American Samoa Community College

II.B.2. Relying on appropriate expertise of faculty, including librarians and other learning support services professionals, the institution selects and maintains educational equipment and materials to support student learning and enhance the achievement of the mission of the institution.

In addition to institutional and divisional assessment program reviews, faculty and library interaction about supplemental course materials as well as the results of library user surveys also inform the selection of educational equipment and materials to support student learning.

The institution selects and maintains educational equipment and materials to support student learning through the process of program reviews. Through this process, the institution assesses the adequacy of its equipment and materials and identifies technology needs.  The needs identified in the 2014 Program Review called for a technology replacement and disposal plan under the focus area of Total Cost of Ownership in the Institutional Strategic Plan (ISP). This plan will ensure that learning support services professionals can sustain their services with adequate technological equipment and materials to enhance student learning.

All learning support services participate in program reviews. Through program reviews, the support services are able to identify its adequacy in meeting identified student needs. Most labs use sign-in sheets to track the population in which they serve. Some use evaluation forms to evaluate their services, either by those providing the service (self evaluation) or by those receiving the services (satisfaction survey).

Divisional and Institutional Program Reviews assesses use, access, and relationship of resources to student learning. The evaluation includes input by faculty and staff through Divisional Assessment and Institutional Program Reviews.

Data from Institutional Assessment Program Review, Divisional Assessment Program Review, and Library user surveys informs the institution on the depth of sufficiency and variety of materials to meet the needs of the students. This data is often reported in the Library bi-weekly, quarterly, and End of Year Summary reports uploaded to Compliance Assist.

Library partial data below extracted and compiled from submitted Library Biweekly Report for whole SY2013-2014 to Compliance Assist to indicate usage, access, and relationships of library services to intended student learning. 

  1. Processing Room:
    1. Number of New Books Processed: 733 (books donated) 84, 1, 24, 3, 8
    2. No. of Orders Processed (PRs, POs, Invoices): 53
    3. Maintenance Repair Service Done: 25
    4. New books cataloged: 2350 (52 to Pacific/Samoan Collection) cataloged into system 

Donation of books: Books currently being evaluated, cleaned, and processed for cataloging into collection.          

  1. Circulation Desk:
    1. Daily Head Count Total: 63,487
    2. New Library Cards: 186
    3. Computer Usage: 6,975
    4. Circulation Statistics (Borrowed Materials): 877

  1. Reference Desk:
    1. Computer usage- 7,606
    2. Typing- 3,177
    3. Research- 2,519
    4. Email- 1,192
    5. OPAC- 567 
    6. Flash drive / Scan- 399
    7. Student program represented: Accounting, Architectural Drafting, Business Management, CAPP, Criminal Justice, Community Member, Education, Health Science, Liberal Arts, Marine Science, Music, Nursing, Pre-law, and Samoan Studies.

  1. Special Collections: Samoa and Pacific Island Nations Collection
    1. Student use count: 293 

Selected topics: Samoan language, Samoan legends, Tusi Faalupega, Pacific Poetry, Tusi Pese,
Samoan Arts, Samoan Oratory, Aspects of cultures, Samoan history, Folklore of Samoa, Alagaupu Faasamoa, Tusi Faalupega, Pacific Poetry, Samoan Tattoo, Samoan Myths & Samoan Dictionary, Samoan Proverbs, Dual Language, Samoan Medicines, Solos and songs, ASG funds, Water quality in A.S. villages & Gov’t Policy, ASG, Matai system, Education in A.S., Fireknife origins, Fishing industries, Obesity, Captain Cook, Samoan Bible, Village & Gov’t policy, Tala o le Vavau, Samoan fiction, Quiet place for class work and a request for a quiet place to type a research paper.

Child abuse in Samoa, Information for Samoan presentation, Corporal punishment, L.M.S. Church History, Reading (Telesa), American Samoa Constitution, Teenage suicide in Samoa, Measina Samoa, Samoan short stories, Mau uprising, Ifoga, Sexual Transmitted Disease’s in the Pacific, Student program represented: Liberal Arts, Accounting, Samoan Studies, Community Member, Education, Health Science, Criminal Justice, Faculty, Security Staff, PFM staff, Pre-Law, Architectural, Nursing, Drafting, Business Management, Music,

  1. Education Resource Center (ERC) Room
    1. Computer usage-3,674      
    2. Research-1,179
    3. Typing- 1,716
    4. Email- 1,001
    5. Students program represented: Accounting, Architectural Drafting, Business Management, CAPP, Criminal Justice, Community Member, Education, Health Science, Liberal Arts, Marine Science, Music, Nursing, Pre-law, and Samoan Studies. 

  1. Other   
    1. Completed two English and Literature, for same faculty, requested general library tours.
    2. Completed one English and Literature faculty (different from above faculty) requested class orientation session for guided EBSCO Databases instructions on how to access and retrieve scholarly and professional journal articles to complete student research assignments.