STATEWIDE CALIFORNIA ELECTRONIC LIBRARY

Continuing education, networking and staff development activities: with the support of scelc staff, librarians serving on advisory committees, the scelc board or task forces help scelc provide a number of opportunities in this area. These activities include:a) events such as the scelc vendor day, colloquium, deans and directors' symposium, and research day. These events take place during a one-week span to provide continuing education for the cutting-edge issues confronting today's libraries and attract more than 300 librarians over the course of one week. In recognition of tight library budgets, all events are free or very low cost, with costs underwritten by scelc, with some vendor sponsorships providing some additional revenue;b) meetings three times per year of a collections and electronic resources committee to provide current awareness of trends in the library information marketplace;c) professional input on license language and terms and conditions from a license advisory committee;d) a competitive funding awards process to enable conference attendance for librarians;e) research incentive awards to help librarians complete and publish their research;f) scholarships and awards to scelc libraries' staff and interns to offset the costs of completing an accredited degree-granting library science program;g) a scelc project initiative fund to provide seed money to libraries to enable new kinds of inter-library collaborative projects, such as the aforementioned scelc shared print project;h) a scholarly communications committee to address the growing area of changes in research and open access publishing.i) a monthly virtual communication event entitled "scelc channel one," in response to the challenges posed by the pandemic at the scelc institutions and their libraries. Channel one has effectively served to broaden outreach to scelc libraries and has created a larger community focused on current issues facing scelc libraries. J) a monthly virtual townhall with library deans and directors to discuss scelc opportunities and administrative challenges in research, medical, and academic libraries.