The Library tutorial was helpful and I do like to know that there are people behind all of these online resources. We try so hard to make life easier and find more ways to be able to do things on our own without interacting with people. It is nice to know that there are people available to help with our searches and get us pointed in the correct direction if we are not going about things the right way. As an undergrad our library was huge and the elevator was slow. I went every Tuesday night with my friends to study, they are fond memories of a past time. It is funny to me that our big old library has really been replaced with online media. What are they going to do with all of those shelves? The Umass library stands in the middle of campus with a fence around it because bricks fall off of the building randomly. Also the weight of the books was not factored in when they built it so there are only books on every other floor, so maybe its a lighter load for the poorly planned building?
Finally I think that the capstone projects were very interesting and diverse. They did seem to fill a need and use creative thinking to showcase a solution to a problem. It is very interesting that everyone had a different take or angle. I liked that the program seemed to come full circle. All of the presenters were learners then leaders of the very thing that they learned. It is what we strive for everyday in our classrooms.
