Dr. Caesar Perkowski visits the Dorothy W. Hightower Collaborative
Learning Center & Library about two to three times a week. He picks up
books from our collection or those he has ordered through GIL Express.
Perkowski incorporates the library into his classroom by requiring his 1101
students to “attend a general library orientation session to learn about the
resources available through the library, on site and online.” Perkowski also
requires students who are working on a group project to go to the library to
talk to the librarians about researching their topics. Perkowski uses LibGuides
in his classrooms. Perkowski feels the librarians put care and effort into
creating the LIbGuides so he encourages his students to use them. Perkowski
recommends the Academic Search Complete database because he feels it “serves as
a starting point in anyone’s research.” Academic Search Complete leads people
easily to other databases that might prove useful in their research. He recommends
GALILEO to his colleagues because it is “a fantastic repository of materials
and databases.” Perkowski loves the feel of the library since it has been
renovated. He feels it has a more modern feel and look, and the space and
lighting “make it a pleasant place to study and socialize.”
