January Staff Picks: Hidden Treasures

January Staff Picks: Hidden Treasures

Second Floor Reading Room

"Does the library have what you're looking for? Do you know what you’re looking for? I, like many students, have typically used the university library as a place to find books and articles for required readings and research papers. I’ve also looked up a few children’s books to use at my student teaching placement site. In the past, I began my search for useful resources in the university’s online library catalog. I would write down the call number of the books I wanted and walk to the shelves to pick them up. But after working in the library for some time, becoming more familiar with the physical space, and learning how to better search the library catalog, I realized that there were many resources available that I didn’t know existed. I used to search with expectations of what I thought would be available at the library, but now see that my knowledge was limited. 


During my shifts at the library, I began to see the interesting titles on the Course Reserves shelves and on books that students in other areas of study returned. I noticed there were robotics kits behind the Services Desk and had more opportunities to explore the large collection of old books in the library’s storage rooms. Eventually, the way I looked at the library changed. Now, the library is also a bookstore and interactive museum where I often peruse the shelves, flip through books, and open boxes to see if there is something available that I wanted but hadn't known was there. This curated collection of resources is an invitation to challenge yourself to see the library in a new way. I invite you to touch the pages of the braille book, practice experimenting with the LEGO robot kit, borrow the “big book” for your next read-aloud in class, and explore resources that you, too, may have wanted but hadn’t known were there." 

-- Natali Constanza, Library Associate


Where: Second Floor Reading Room


Staff Picks is curated and designed each month by the Gottesman Libraries' staff to highlight resources on educational topics and themes of special interest.


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By: Library Staff
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