First Year Experience #4

As a requirement for all First Year Seminar students to take a library research project, I decided to attend a Library Research Workshop at Merrill Learning Library to learn how to use ALADIN program. The workshop itself was very brief and it summed all information into 20-minute presentation. The workshop was in the basement of the library and there was only five students who showed up for the presentation.

I say the presentation is little beneficial for me because I learned only one new thing about ALADIN program. The information I learned from a librarian in the FYS class provided the same process of using program like the workshop's presentation. I expected little more attendance from the students at the workshop, and I could tell that the presenter kept the information brief because there were few students. The only thing I learned from the workshop was that ALADIN is the most effective way to find the articles in Gallaudet's very only library instead of searching for the articles all over in the library. I only showed up the workshop because my FYS teacher told me so. I will have a library research project coming up and I pray that I will do great on it. I believe the workshop is not exactly a necessity to all of us because a librarian's sources during the class time were sufficient and we all understood how to use ALADIN program. Last, I also showed up because I wanted to earn an extra credit. :)