The community college learning resources center: More than a library

Abstract

The learning resources center of a community college is one of the most fascinating and challenging educational developments in a score of decades. Because the impact of the community college is recent, its learning resources program has been able to unshackle the bonds of tradition which have deterred proven innovations in education for a hundred years. A primary goal of the learning resources program is to work with other elements of the institution in providing more than the traditional options and possibilities for learning to take place. In higher education, we educators haven't done too well in varying our approaches to instruction. In fact, many innovators say the college is still an almost exact replica of the medieval monastery. On the other hand the community college program is far from monastic. The same pressures which brought many of the problems of the day have also brought with them some of the answers in the form of new approaches, a new climate in which to work, and new technology to utilize. There are three general methods of instruction: 1. Presentation. The transmission of ideas, motivation, and information from an advanced scholar to a less advanced scholar. This is accomplished primarily through lecture, audiovisuals, and television.

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