2025 PASCAL Member Conference

Academic libraries constantly adapt to meet and support their students’ needs while navigating budgetary constraints and larger institutional goals. At College of Charleston’s Addlestone Library, these challenges were met, in part, by making changes to its access and instruction service and staffing models. More specifically, this presentation will cover why the decision was made to move to a single service point, how it was implemented, how it evolved, and the challenges brought by those changes. This presentation will also detail how the staffing model was changed at the service desk to give librarians more time to focus on providing credit-bearing instruction demands, which were brought on by a new budget model adopted at the College of Charleston.

Moderator: Brittany Harrell, Tri-County Technical College

An academic library’s outreach committee based in the upstate of South Carolina was brainstorming branding/promotional ideas. Thus began the makings of a legend: their library mascot, a stuffed goose christened by students as “Goostavo”. This presentation will explore the inception of the mascot, its introduction, student involvement, and how it is used to spotlight library resources and events. Examples of promotional materials will be showcased during the talk.  

Moderator: Eric Resnis, Coastal Carolina University​​​​

Many special formats—music scores, serials, audiovisual media, etc.—are so common and numerous in library collections that excellent, explicit guidance for cataloging these materials is readily available from experts. Not so with the mysterious “bound-with” volume, which invites us to represent multiple manifestations as a single item, an interesting challenge. This presentation will provide attendees with a conceptual understanding of bound-with items and two approaches to cataloging them, as well as practical recommendations for creating bound-with records in Alma. This presentation is geared towards anyone with cataloging responsibilities, but does not expect expertise of attendees and will avoid jargon as much as possible.

Moderator: Michelle Colquitt, Clemson University

Does your library oversee a Curriculum Materials Center (CMC; which also may be called a Curriculum Lab, Instructional Materials Center/Lab, Education Media Center, etc.)? Though others exist in PASCAL institutions, Anderson University (AU) currently has the only South Carolina CMC listed in the Association of College and Research Libraries' Directory of Curriculum Materials Centers and Collections. In this session attendees will learn how AU is working to transform its neglected CMC into a model school library. Attendees will be encouraged to discuss their own CMC experiences, with the goal of establishing a collaborative network with other PASCAL librarians tasked with developing and managing CMCs.

Moderator: Victoria Nicole Neff, USC Beaufort

Join PASCAL staff and colleagues for dinner at one of Columbia's tantalizing restaurants. Meet in the lobby of the Pastides Alumni Center at 5:00pm to walk or carpool to dinner with your selected group.
Sign-up sheets will be available at the registration table. More information coming soon.