What is the hardest thing about finding information and doing research on a topic for you personally? Did this Library Research course help? In what ways did this course help you? (Or if the course didn't help, why not? What would have been more helpful and/or useful to you?

The hardest think about finding information on a topic is knowing if something is a 100% credible to use because I don't want to use the wrong information in my paper. But to resolve that issue, I consider the site I got the information from or I just go on a database. Also, it's extremely hard when information that not even about my topic is given. These are the things that are hard for me when looking up information over the internet, but books aren't usually a problem. The hard thing about doing researching about a topic is that later on you come to find out that it's not the topic that you thought you were interested in, and then it would be too late to change it. The Library Research class helped a lot in the areas of defining and identifying what plagiarism is what it looks like, so we don't make the mistake to plagiarize. However, some of the things that the course talked about didn't really help because I already knew about it. For example, I don't think learning how to look up information in a book or making up search terms didn't really need to be taught. This didn't seem really useful because a lot of students had to do research papers and had to use internet and book resources to look up information. I think something that could've been addressed in this course is maybe something that students don't really learn how to do in high school, but I'm not really sure what that could be.

Comment on the following statement: "Since everything is on the internet, I don't need books....right?"

     I don’t agree with this statement because people need to know how to utilize book resources, and realize that books are just as important as internet resources. It's important that people not only do research on the internet but with books because later in their academic career, they are going to have to get a variety of sources which include book sources. If people just use the internet as a resource, they're just limiting themselves from information that might not be on the internet but can be found in a book. I find it helpful to use a book resource than using an internet resource because the author’s information is right there within the book, so there isn’t extra information to look up about the author. Therefore, I can see if the author is a reliable source to get information from. In a book, one could see the information that the author used, which is useful to refer to. Sometime one can't really tell if the information on the website is credible, or the type of sources that the author got it from. If people constantly use internet resources, they won’t know how to use a book to find information. For example, they probably won't know the simple ways to look for information like using the index or table of contents. I find it as helpful to use a book resource as it is to use an internet resource, but I think the uses between them should be balance so one isn’t being used more than the other. That way, one can have experience using both.

What do you think librarians do? What do you think would be really cool if librarians started doing it? What do you think the library of the future might look like?

Librarians' jobs is to manage the library and give any assistant to those who need it. They can help people locate books or different types of information. They also keep track of books and make sure they are organized in their right category. I think the most important job of a librarian is helping others because without them there would be no one else to help people. Therefore, people wouldn't know how to check about a book, use the computer to look up information, etc. The cool things that librarians could start doing is making people become more interested in books and showing people, like senior citizens, how to use the computer. The way that librarians can make people become more interested in books is having kids go on field trips to their central/public library, and librarians can show them how to look up books, how to get a library card, etc. I think it would be more beneficial if librarians focus on younger kids because if children are influenced at a younger age, they could possibly grow to love books and have more knowledgeable about how to access the library as a resource. It'd be cool if librarians showed elderly people how to use the computer since basically everything is about technology and computers. This can help elderly people keep up with modern society. The library of the future will be a type of computer device that everyone will have, and it will allow people to get access to books through the internet; it will be like an eBook. The device will explain to people how to look up information using the internet, provide an infinity amount of books, and there will be a person who is always available to answers people's questions. Basically the library of the future will allow people to access it from home. The library of the future will be computer devices since computer are more commonly used.

What do you hope to study when you go to college and why? How is the Pre-Collegiate program helpng you meet your goals?

The thing that I hope to study when I get into college is Pre-med to become a Pediatrician. However, I’m not fully sure if I want to become a full time doctor because I’ve been told that they don’t have a lot of free time. But even if I don’t become a doctor, I still want to be involved with Pediatrics because I like working with kids. Since my sister has asthma and is constantly in and out of the hospital, it has made me become more interested in the medical field. I feel like if I’m able to be a Pediatrician, I’m able to give back to children who are less fortune, and I would have the ability to guide them back to health. Not only that, I really like the atmosphere that places like the Children’s Hospital has and how doctors interacts with their patients. The way the Pre-Collegiate program is helping me reach my goals is that during the summer program, I’m required to take a college course, English 1020. This is giving me a glimpse of what the college classes are going to be like. It has also been providing several health classes. This gives me chance to experience what it’s going to be when I enter health classes in college. The class that has had the greatest impact on me is Human Anatomy. It has caused me to become more interested in the medical field because of the various components and information there is to know about the human body. The classes challenge me a lot, so that’s another glimpse of the level of difficulty that college classes are going to be at. Pre- Collegiate is helping a lot with my future in college and my career path.