During the entire presentation at the library, I was amazed with all of the fantastic and easy ways to use their resources. Mrs. Weimer was and is a great resource that I will make sure to use in the future. The best part of this entire adventure to the library was that I learned about researching! The worst part about any paper is having to look up yet another website to add to your bibliography, even worse is a book or paper source. I now know how to look up a book, find where it is located, venture to it's location (with the help of the handy map), and check it out. I didn't even know how to do that at my high school. Also, I learned how to look up research sources based on different subject areas using the UCSB library reference page. Now, I don't need to stress as badly when I have a research paper due, because I know how to do the most tedious part.
Overall the library visit was amazing. The people that work there seem so helpful and will be great resources in the future.
This is a picture of the place I've been talking about this entire post, the Davidson Library.
Nice to meet you Sam. You had a very interesting blog post. I can completely relate to you because I too, just learned about how to research, specifically using the library website. Finding a book before this presentation seemed like a daunting challenge (with dewey decimal system and all) but now that I was enlightened, I feel like I can find anything. Using the library page will definitely come in handy when I need to research/cite a source. The presentation was quite a lot to take in but I'm sure we're better equipped now that we did that. You seem like a chill girl, maybe we'll run into each other some day. Have a great day!
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