Assignment One

Importance of a library

Libraries are important in design schools as they offer students the opportunity to research designers and draw inspiration for their current projects. Libraries hold many books and other forms of information on designers and design ideas that students can use as precedents for their current projects that they’re working on; this allows students a starting point to draw inspiration and ideas from and get straight into developing their project.

Design school offer’s a lot of art history papers which require research and appropriate sources, libraries offer services that allow students to search up their current topic and find books, articles, and journals that are relevant to their topic in order to find reliable sources of information that will help them write papers relative to design.

Libraries offer a quiet environment suitable for reading, drawing or other forms of studying; they also offer a study room for students to gather and discuss ideas or perhaps tutor each other. Many librarians are qualified to teach students about literacy related topics such as how to use APA style appropriately.

Another feature of libraries is they often offer audio visual material such as movies, games and audio tapes. Movies and especially games can be a great way to open up a student’s creativity and inspire their artistic side to help them craft their idea into reality. A lot of design libraries have previous students’ work on display as examples of what can be achieved and is also another tool for inspiration.

Libraries are important in design schools because they give students the opportunity to research into design and find inspiration through history of designers, audio visual material and previous students’ works of art. Libraries also offer a quiet place to study by oneself or with a group in the study room.

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