It isn’t easy helping 19,000 succeed with their studies, but that is what the LeRoy V. Good Library at Monroe Community College is doing everyday.  When RRLC visited last week, the library was packed with students at nearly every computer, classes in the labs, groups in the study rooms and on the “group study floor”, as well as students reading and studying quietly on the “quiet floor”.  The students showed their appreciation by nominating LVG at MCC for the 2011 RRLC Academic Library of the Year.

“Students at MCC are incredibly diverse – in age, ability, background. It is challenging to meet the needs of all.   And there are so many students.  Yet the library succeeds in helping everyone,” said Marcia Eggleston, NYLA President and a judge along with Todd Butler, Executive Director of the Ad Council of Rochester.   “Librarians and staff seem to know their community very well; they make everyone feel welcome!”

What is it that makes the LeRoy V. Good Library special, according to Director Ted Ciambor?  “We see a wide range of students here, from those who have library experience to those that have never set foot in an academic library.  We recognize that and try to have a student focus. We see each student as an individual. We really focus on one-on-one connectedness.”

Take a photo tour of the LVG Library and watch the video of our day at the LVG Library at MCC.






Congratulations, Ted and staff of the LVG Library at MCC!

The library will receive a $100 gift card, an engraved plaque and a banner to hang in the library.  The library and its staff will be honored at the RRLC Annual Meeting, June 2 at Casa Larga.