Hillsborough Community College provides a sufficient number of qualified staff to accomplish the institution’s mission.  Qualifications of library staff are determined through the College’s screening and credentialing procedures (College's Screening Handbook pages 7-12). Library staff applicants must meet classification specifications for the staff positions (sample Learning Resources Coordinator Classification Specification), and library faculty must meet the credential requirements outlined in the Faculty Credentials Operations Manual p. 32).  The campus presidents work in concert with the deans who supervise the libraries to determine appropriate staffing for the campus libraries.  These determinations include consideration of recommendations from campus librarians and library staff and library program reviews.  The sufficiency of the numbers of current staff is supported by the fact that students are being adequately served.  To determine student satisfaction with service, the library satisfaction survey to faculty and students is administered on an annual basis.  For the past two years, the majority of respondents have been satisfied to highly satisfied with the libraries and services, which can be seen by clicking on any campus and viewing the survey results (http://www.hccfl.edu/library/cluster/reports.html). 

Professional development opportunities are available both internally and externally for all library staff.  All library staff may benefit from the College’s Faculty, Staff, and Program Development funds, which serve to finance travel to professional development workshops and training.  Additionally, the College is a member of the Tampa Bay Library Consortium (TBLC), which is a non-profit, multi-library cooperative that assists libraries by leading and encouraging collaboration, resource sharing, staff development, and innovations .  TBLC provides training opportunities throughout the year for all library staff.  The College is also a member of Florida’s College Center of Library Automation (CCLA) consortium, which coordinates the twenty-eight community colleges’ and eleven state universities’ collections through a common library collections management system (LINCC), and which provides professional training on the system to all library staff.

Three of the campus libraries have two reference librarians on staff; the smallest campus has one reference librarian.  In concert with ACRL guidelines (A Guideline for the Appointment, Promotion and Tenure of Academic Librarians), these librarians hold a graduate degree from an accredited institution. 

The College’s Director of Associate in Arts Programs serves as a districtwide administrative contact for library services.  The Director supervises the district library technical services, attends the library faculty cluster meetings, and participates in library policies and operations.

Each campus and the District Library Technical Services unit has professional library staff.

• The Brandon Campus has a sufficient number of qualified staff.  Full-time staff include two reference librarians, a learning resources automation assistant, an audiovisual technician, and a learning resources technician.  Part-time staff includes five student workers.
• The Dale Mabry Campus has a sufficient number of qualified staff.  Full-time staff includes two reference librarians, five learning resource technicians, one audiovisual technician, and one staff assistant.  Part-time staff includes three technicians. 
• The Plant City Campus has a sufficient number of qualified staff.  Full-time staff includes one reference librarian, one LRC Coordinator, one LRC technician, and one AV technician. Part-time staff includes two student workers.
• The Ybor City Campus has a sufficient number of qualified staff.  Full-time staff includes two reference librarians, and four learning resources technicians.  Part-time staff includes one learning resources technician.   To manage the split library facility more effectively, an additional part-time position has been requested in the library strategic plan.

The District Library Technical Services unit includes one learning resources coordinator, one learning resources automation coordinator, and four learning resources technicians.