Old’s cool- libraries and archiving (week 2)

The archiving of information is paramount to learning and when it comes the archiving of information there is no better place to go than the local library…well except maybe google, but even though the information found the internet is humungous in scale, it presents the problem of being hard to find specific/trustworthy sources that you need when it comes to academic material.

This brings us to the actual question we were asked in class today “what is the role of a library at RMIT and to me as a student” to which I think my answers go hand in hand. The role of the library here is to not only provide access to information via books, essays and academic journals on various subjects taught at RMIT, but to also be a space in which people can go to focus purely on study, to seperate studies from our home life’s, to be free of distractions and noise and just study, you walk in to any of the libraries at RMIT and see the hundreds of other students around you and are motivated to do the same.

Now that I’m at RMIT in a more academic sense rather then my previous two years doing more practical work with cameras, lights and sound, I need to change my approach to study since I never really had to look up/cite academic works before. I think that the approach that I am going to take with my studies is to read the assigned readings for each class, come up with questions based on those works and then try to find other works that help me answer those questions (or even raise more).