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Perla Cruz
El CAJON, CALIF. – Fia Nicholas, presented at the State Board of Education in Sacramento regarding post-high School preparedness. Nicholas pointed out the significance of having a librarian career aide, highlighting that only 44% of high school students are prepared for college.
One of the main issues of post-high schoolers’ low preparedness in college life comes from the lack of information. Students don’t know where to go for information and don’t have access to workshops to learn more about the benefits of a student’s college or how to research effectively for themselves in the world.
Grossmont Library has helped with creating safe spaces for club organizations run by students to host at a stationary, providing activities to the distressed, and flyers with events to showcase.
Understanding Libraries and what they offer is far more important than what most students know by simple osmosis. By assisting students academically and advocating for their success through workshops and programs geared for them within libraries, the percentages could rise from more students becoming confident in their research skills and assured in the idea of succeeding in college. 44 to a higher percentage of post-high schoolers being confident to be around the idea of college by starting their research and progressing to college. Leading by example can attract more funding, students, and acknowledgment to staff at libraries.
Employing a library as an academic tool and surpassing the universal viewpoint of libraries as books and study time, anyone, not just a student, can seek resources that offer what they are looking for or that will help them in the future. At college campuses, it is ideal for students to further their careers with what they can access.
Lisa Brlas, Library Technician at Grossmont College Library, delivers compassion to students seeking a first-time job position and offers them opportunities to gain lifelong skills to utilize in the future. “I may not teach them academically, but I can teach them life skills,” Brlas said.
The concepts of libraries come from a universal understanding of the belief that they are structured to shape an ideal perspective that one is allowed to visit with no reservations to be made, open to all, and changing a student’s academic success.
Grossmont College Library welcomes any student to come and visit, attend study sessions, meet with friends, and visit therapy dogs. Library hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays and 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Fridays.
“I’m pretty good at my job and love doing it.” Brlas works with integrity, helping others to succeed in ways she can and issuing job openings to grant the beginning of one’s future skills, developing them as they go on. If you are seeking a campus job at the library, visit Lisa Brlas at the Circulation Desk.
