What is the place of the academic library?
November 19, 2009
I found this link in my Twitter stream this morning, and I thought I would share it with you. I am very curious as to your reactions to this article especially in light of all you’ve been learning about education this semester.
This is a faculty member writing about what he feels an academic library should be (and not be).
The classroom is where students connect, collaborate, learn, and synthesize, under the guidance of faculty who are, at the end of the day, responsible for teaching. Students can continue the process over a cup of coffee in the local college coffee shop, in the common room of their dorms, or when they run into each other in the computer lab or library. The library exists as a means: to support the members of the classroom, the students and faculty.
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The library is a means to an end: enabling students and faculty to access archives.
Thoughts? I have mine, of course, but I’d love to hear what yours are.
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