Sunday, December 15, 2013
Final Project Synopsis
For our final project, Chris and I chose to interview the co-owner of Jay Peak resort and Burke Mountain, Bill Stenger, about the advancements that have been done with each resort and the ones that are planned for the making in order to improve the entertainment in the North East Kingdom. Aside from a recorded interview of Bill, we plan to use pictures of Burke Mountain and Jay peak and of the kinds of people who are the demographic for these resorts and areas.
Monday, December 9, 2013
Video #2 Write-up
The library faculty has expected making changes in their part of the building for a while now.
Their main objective has been to clear out most of the books in the library in order to make more room for something else. The only problem is that they haven’t completely figured out what they want to do with the leftover space.
The staff has been discarding (getting rid of) all the books in the library that don't have much importance anymore. The process consists of marking the books as discarded through the web system, stamping the word "discarded" on the back page of the book, and by covering the bar code with black marker, so that it is no longer visible for people to scan in the Lyndon State library. The stamping of the word "discard" is shown in the beginning of the movie.
As the books have been taken away and discarded, the shelves of each floor (more specifically the second floor) in the library have been left empty. The faculty continues to discard and shift the books, still not positively knowing what to do with the leftover space yet.
Librarian Garret Nelson sheds light on the situation, "Primarily, we’re looking at the next few years to create the learning commons, and what this is is having the academic support units such as tutoring, writing center, and advising." Says Nelson. "We hope to have us all in one place helping students." He then adds. He explains that these ideas still need to be approved.
The process of discarding began in the middle of the summer of 2013. There is still much more discarding and shifting to do until the project is complete.
According to Nelson, it is common for most school libraries to have "learning commons" in the library center. He learned this by visiting most of them. He predicts that the intended project he and the rest of faculty has will take approximately two years. Before the project can go any further, the faculty needs to keep a close eye on what books are being used in the library, and take out whatever is not being used. This will create more space for the librarians to work with.
The librarians hope for this project to have a positive outcome. A bigger and more advanced learning center will give the students at LSC a better welcoming to the school and promote available assistance if any of them are in need of it.
Their main objective has been to clear out most of the books in the library in order to make more room for something else. The only problem is that they haven’t completely figured out what they want to do with the leftover space.
The staff has been discarding (getting rid of) all the books in the library that don't have much importance anymore. The process consists of marking the books as discarded through the web system, stamping the word "discarded" on the back page of the book, and by covering the bar code with black marker, so that it is no longer visible for people to scan in the Lyndon State library. The stamping of the word "discard" is shown in the beginning of the movie.
As the books have been taken away and discarded, the shelves of each floor (more specifically the second floor) in the library have been left empty. The faculty continues to discard and shift the books, still not positively knowing what to do with the leftover space yet.
Librarian Garret Nelson sheds light on the situation, "Primarily, we’re looking at the next few years to create the learning commons, and what this is is having the academic support units such as tutoring, writing center, and advising." Says Nelson. "We hope to have us all in one place helping students." He then adds. He explains that these ideas still need to be approved.
The process of discarding began in the middle of the summer of 2013. There is still much more discarding and shifting to do until the project is complete.
According to Nelson, it is common for most school libraries to have "learning commons" in the library center. He learned this by visiting most of them. He predicts that the intended project he and the rest of faculty has will take approximately two years. Before the project can go any further, the faculty needs to keep a close eye on what books are being used in the library, and take out whatever is not being used. This will create more space for the librarians to work with.
The librarians hope for this project to have a positive outcome. A bigger and more advanced learning center will give the students at LSC a better welcoming to the school and promote available assistance if any of them are in need of it.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
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