New Student Study Space

If you've been in the library lately, you probably have noticed some missing shelves. We made some changes over the Christmas break, including taking some of our reference materials in front of the study rooms and moving them to the basement classroom. Those materials are still accessible, but the space leftover from their removal has now become a large student study space.

You will find three extra-long tables with plenty of chairs back by the study rooms. There are also three large dry-erase whiteboards for student use. We've also made a little more room for our comfy blue furniture near the big window that faces E. 14th street.

We've also added some popular reading material on the long shelf in front of the study tables. Here you will find plenty of popular fiction arranged alphabetically by author. These books are on the honor system so you don't need an ID to check them out.

So if you're looking for a good place to study or a good book, come check out our changes on the 1st floor!

Orientation Sessions

Professor Judge from the English department shares her thoughts with us on library orientations.

"In fall 2009 my First Year Composition class met in the library three times. Usually, I introduce English Composition students to the library with one visit with instruction from librarians that is designed to help students with research projects.

In the future, I will continue to schedule multiple classes with a librarian for First Year Composition students. The reasons? Multiple visits benefit students by giving them customized help with their research projects and greater familiarity with our library’s systems and resources. Typically, students complain that they can’t find enough material for their research papers, but not one student ran into that problem last fall because of the extra help they had in locating material. Also, students found better sources because they received three times as much instruction on how to do this.

I think that visiting the library more than once also helped students to be comfortable in that space because I know that a number of them routinely use the library as their place to study."

Therese

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