The faculty speaks @... College faculty members believe ‘Strategies for Improving Student Success’ is the most important reason to attend Fac- ulty Development Workshops, according to a recent College-wide survey. The Faculty Development Survey was dis- tributed in May by Faculty Professional Development Consultant Eugene Hrushowy and had a 32 percent response rate. Asked about preferances in workshop format, faculty members favored short sessions of two to three hours; sessions in the Fall or Spring, instead of the Summer Semester; sessions on a Thursday, Monday or Wednesday. Asked to recommend areas of interest for future workshops, 73.5 percent of respon- dents selected student-success strategies. Other results under the survey’s Instruc- tional Development section were: itical Thinking about Curriculum 70.9 Teaching to Different Learning Styles 66.6 Computerized Test Banks 55.5 Play and Humor Techniques in Teaching 53.8 Graphic User Interface Programs 52.1 Teaching in the Multicultural Classroom 51.2 Results for Personal Development topics were: Planning for Retirement 522 Dealing with Burnout 47.7 Managing Stress, 46.6 Myers and Briggs Personality Inventory 44.4 Physical Fitness Assessment 41.1 Results for Organizational Development were: Team Building Techniques 49.1 Visions of Computer Technology 48.2 Desk-Top Publishing 46.4 Running Effective Meetings, 45.5 International/Multicultural Education 39.2 @ more information contact Eugene Hrushowy at 527-5122 or speak with your Department Representative on the College Faculty Development Committee. & ESL student Esther Ngan uses CD-Rom system in the Library. We get a ROM The Douglas College library now has reference sources in electronic form, some on micro- computer hard drives and some on CD-ROM (compact disc - read only memory). One disc can store over 250,000 pages of text. Many databases which in the past had only been available on-line at high cost are now available on CD-ROM. Most CD-ROM databases are used with searching software which allows data to be accessed by author, name, word, date, journal title, and topic - or any combination. The library has three electronic database work stations. The first is for full-text databases. Using this machine you can find the PC-SIG database, which contains: shareware computer programs you may copy; the PCensus database, containing all of B.C. demographic data; and all the Sun and Province news stories from 1990. The second station features the Canadian Business and Current Affairs database. It indexes 10 years of Canadian magazines and newspapers. The third station is the Electronic Library Network. It allows you to find out what is avail- able in other BC libraries. It includes a database of all videotapes in post-secondary libraries; dial-up ports to allow modem access to UBC and SFU on-line catalogues; and Outlook, a database of all books in public and college libraries across B.C. Anyone who would like an introduction to CD-ROM should come into the library and ask at the Information Desk, or call Jean Cockburn at local 5184. & New developments Developmental Studies Coordinator Gillies Malnarich has been seconded to work on fac- ulty development programs for the next two years. Malnarich will share duties with Faculty Professional Development Consultant Eugene Hrushowy this fall, when both employees will be on half-time status. «