The students from Karen Larson’s class who traveled to Key West to help with recovery from Hurricane Wilma will be presenting their insights and observations at the library this evening, January 25th, starting at 7 p.m. We’ll be gathering on the first floor, in front of the current periodicals. Come hear how students integrated anthropological observations and social justice principles into their service learning. It’s likely you may also be able to purchase a key-lime colored Wilma Relief T-shirt to commemorate the trip.
J-term is in its final week. Though it has been fairly quiet in the library, this year two librarians taught courses. Michelle Twait’s class (in keeping with the Vocation theme) explored information professions. Edi Thorstensson taught weaving to students at the St. Peter Arts Center while exposing them to textile traditions around the world.
Cal State San Marcos has a new library that has been a big success. So why is this news? In the 1990s this new campus of the California system was not going to have a library at all – who needs it when everything’s online? What this new library demonstrates is that there is s social dimension to learning that can’t be easily replicated in cyberspace.
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