This week’s library champion is Dr. Anna Higgins-Harrell.
Dr. Higgins-Harrell walks around the Dorothy W. Hightower Collaborative
Learning Center & Library once every few weeks. Higgins-Harrell is very
active with ALG – Affordable Learning Georgia which the librarians are
promoting. The ALG initiative allows instructors to create and/or provide free
to low cost online course sources including library resources to their classes.
Higgins-Harrell sends her English 1102 students to the library at least once a
month and encourages them to use the group study rooms. Any of her classes that
are involved in research projects are instructed by a librarian on how to
research good materials, and Higgins-Harrell also uses LibGuides in her
classrooms. GALILEO is what Higgins-Harrell recommends to her students when it
comes to research. Higgins-Harrell recommends that “we all learn more about the
OER – Open Educational Resources, and the Open Stax initiatives.” Higgins-Harrell
also recommends that students “buy their coffee at the IC take it into a comfy
chair in the library and get ready for your next class.” Higgins-Harrell thinks
the library is “pretty. I love how student friendly it is; and I love the cool
classrooms and study rooms.”
