Help us to provide research tools for students right at their fingertips. We invite you to be part of our efforts to support student success at UP by raising funds for laptops for students to borrow. Please support the Clark Library by making a PilotsGive gift now or on April 6-7, 2022, from noon to noon. The direct link is: https://giving.up.edu/clarklibrary
The past two years have taught us how essential laptops and computers are to student success in providing access and distance-support for class-work, class-research, and even class attendance. Remote work closes distances. Drafting and revising essays on computers makes the work portable for students as they move between jobs, campus, residences. So, alongside pens and pencils, modern students carry a device that serves as desk, office, notebooks, and library wherever they go right in their backpack. The computer is an essential, all-purpose tool– replacing post-it notes, index cards, multi-coded notebooks, marking-pens, erasers, and bottles of liquid-paper and sheets of correction tape which, before personal computers were the norm, meant extra long-nights-before-deadline for term papers and take-homes.
Technology helps, though access to technology is not the same for all students at various levels of income and drawing on different training and resources in their academic preparation. With increasing Zoom & Teams meetings and lectures, on-demand access to resources for classes and research, and greater ease for writing assignments, this year’s Clark Library PilotsGive campaign goal is focused on supporting student success by providing laptops for students to borrow.
Those who give $100 or more will receive a beautiful vintage Clark Library bookplate, placed in a newly purchased book for our collection to commemorate the donation. Make a gift at https://giving.up.edu/clarklibrary
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The Library, Archives, and Museum work collaboratively to make our resources available for student research and discovery through our digitization efforts of archives and museum collections and access to electronic journals and books, and streaming media from the library.
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