This will be a first in my college life, Part I or Part II. This weekend, I have to spend several hours at the Marist library doing research, both for a debate on immigration in my Issues and Ideas class, as well as for a research project for my America and the Challenge of Terrorism class.
In the various schools I've attended over the years, I haven't seen much of the libraries for academic purposes...
- Indiana Tech (1989-90) - only reason I went there was the girl I was dating at the time worked there. Otherwise, it was a pretty useless library with no books more recent than ten years prior. But I used to abuse their photocopier, because my girlfriend had the key to it.
- Marist (Fall 1990) - They had a library then. I think I may have been in it once. Downstairs, if I recall, was particularly creepy after hours, since it was very poorly lit, and nobody was ever down there.
- Columbia-Greene (1991-93) - I used to check out books for reading because I was too cheap to buy books, but certainly never did any research or anything
- Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne (1995) - If they had a library it's news to me. I never even saw it.
... so this is like a whole novel experience for me, having to remember all those skills I learned like a decade and a half ago about "how" to find stuff. Should be a hoot.
IPFW has a 4-story library. It's got lots of places to hide and make out.
I one went around a remote book stack on the fourth floor and interupted a Pakistani woman bowing her prayers to the east.
It's not a lame library, just not one for entertainment (book-wise speaking).