After many years of dutifully giving the library orientation speech, today may have been the final day Ms. Hannah gave her speech to the students this year. In fact, this may have been the final time she gives the speech live as she plans on filming her standard library research introduction in hopes of publishing it to the library website, and "flipping the library" if you will. For the teachers in the English department especially, the library visit is always an annual hallmark so this is quite historic is Ms. Hannah goes completely digital from now on.
More important, today was the final library visit for the senior class. While some universities will require a library visit in their freshmen sessions, from now on most students will be responsible for finding resources on their own. For as much as the students bemoan the research process and hope for a day when it's well in their rearview mirrors, it's actually a very solid model as opposed to aimless wandering through the world-wide web, or writing papers off the top of your head. While notecards and bib cards and outlines and drafts won't be required in their future missions, it's hopefully they stick to it.
And so as the weekend arrives and the Ides of March looms, it's time to watch the research library introduction again. At least one more time for the road.
More important, today was the final library visit for the senior class. While some universities will require a library visit in their freshmen sessions, from now on most students will be responsible for finding resources on their own. For as much as the students bemoan the research process and hope for a day when it's well in their rearview mirrors, it's actually a very solid model as opposed to aimless wandering through the world-wide web, or writing papers off the top of your head. While notecards and bib cards and outlines and drafts won't be required in their future missions, it's hopefully they stick to it.
And so as the weekend arrives and the Ides of March looms, it's time to watch the research library introduction again. At least one more time for the road.
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