Librarian and Staff Directory

Reference Desk

For research assistance during library hours: 714.732.5694
or 714.992.7039, option 5.

Borrowing

Acquisitions

On weekdays, you can find your friendly acquisitions strawbrarian: at the virtual reference desk; teaching LIB100 (summers); offering guidance-on-the-side-ance in one-on-research consultations; collaborating to run library operations; co-steering FCL’s queer book club discussions; leading library instruction sessions; conquering committee commitments; and co-facilitating the queer social hour. On weekends, I enjoy catching performances (comedy or theater), chowing on flesh-free grub, and visiting museums with friends. Publications include penning a book for the American Library Association (ALA); co-writing a fashion bibliography for Reference & User Services Quarterly; and editing an ALA publication regarding access for persons with disabilities. I’ve been active as a presenter for ALA, e.g., co-leading a half-day Austin preconference for the Young Adult Literature Symposium (#keepYALSAweird). I’ve authored grants totaling over $100K, and was featured as a Library Journal Mover and Shaker in the “change agents” category. 

Reference and Student Programming

Val helps to organize and promote library programs throughout the year by partnering with various student services and academic departments. He also gives library instruction sessions, does PR work for the library, points students in the right direction in their research, and has many answers to many questions at the reference desk. Having once been a California community college student himself, Val has a soft spot for community college students, and is super-convinced that various tools of academic success live in the library. To that end, Val hopes to persuade many, many FC students to exploit the library, so they can move closer to accomplishing their academic goals.

Before discovering the wonders of FC, Val was a librarian at Moreno Valley College, Westwood College, and was a wandering expat working as a full-time English faculty member at Sungkyunkwan University in the Republic of Korea for several years. He enjoys trivia, rare book collecting, and macrophotography in his spare time.