Julie Cornett
Julie Cornett is the Faculty Librarian at Cerro Coso Community College's Indian Wells Valley Resource Center (LRC) in Ridgecrest, California, a position she has held since 2006.
Julie knew from the beginning that she wanted to become a librarian because she always loved libraries and the values they supported. After she acquired a Bachelor of Arts degree in Cultural Anthropology from UC Santa Cruz, she worked as a paraprofessional while working towards her MLIS. After receiving her MLIS from San Jose State University, she eventually took a job as an adjunct Faculty Librarian and then four years later moved into a full-time role. In her current position, Julie is responsible for assessing the effectiveness of their library programs, managing a limited staff and promoting library services to patrons.
Services offered at the Indian Wells Valley Resource Center (LRC) include: automated book catalogs, encyclopedia and magazine research databases and web resources. In addition to providing library resources that support Cerro Coso Community College's academic programs, their library also strives to build information competency skills into these programs, which leads to an atmosphere conductive to learning. When asked what Julie enjoyed most about being a librarian, she replied, "teaching information competency skills and working with faculty to strengthen the library programs."
In response to the future of community college libraries, Julie emphasized the importance of her library improving their Virtual Reference Desk where patrons can receive real-time assistance from a librarian 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
When Julie is not busy working at the library, you can find her singing, hiking, riding and creating linocut prints of the fauna of the Eastern Sierra.
