August is almost over as we are thinking about the beginning
of the Fall 2013 semester at NJIT. There
is a Greek Village and a new Honors College Dormitory opening the
semester. Students started to move in
yesterday. The Central King Building is
in the process of being renovated. The
student body is growing with new programs throughout the various colleges
within NJIT.
There were some changes in the library this summer as we
completed the inventory project. Many
outdated and damaged books were removed from the collection. We also moved the reference collection from
to the second floor where current periodicals were once housed. There are now so few periodicals received in
paper.
The new students seem to be getting younger, but they are
the same age. I am getting older. We’ll get the same old directional questions,
but there was a time (21 years ago already) when I was new to NJIT and did not
know my way around. I do sense that the
number of reference questions will continue to decline. In my opinion the reference desk should be
closed as a public service point with the circulation staff directing
appropriate questions to the librarians in their offices.
Time moves forward as nothing stays the same
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