ELLEN KURT ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
The Vogel Library and the Pathways Center are partnering to provide students a new service.
Learning Express is a service that Wartburg has subscribed to in order to provide students with things that they can do now to help prepare for the future. These things include practice tests; tutorials in reading comprehension, math, and writing; and career preparation resources.
“I think a lot of students will take advantage of Learning Express. It is a great way for students to prepare for the future,” Director of Library Jean Donham said.
The Pathways staff asked about trying to get this service at Wartburg. Donham had heard about Learning Express in the past, so she looked into it. Both thought that it fit the needs of Wartburg students, so Pathways and the Vogel Library decided to subscribe to the service for a year-and-a-half.
“It is a great opportunity for the library to partner with Pathways and it is a great opportunity for us to do this expansion, so that people get the idea that the library is more than it appears,” Donham said.
Donham doesn’t want students to think the library is just a place to do homework. She wants students know that it offers much more.
The faculty in the education and biology departments were notified about this service before Christmas. She thought it would benefit students in these departments as they would soon be taking the Praxis for Education majors or the MCATS for biology majors.
“I think all of the test prep will be really useful to students regardless of whether it is the MCAT, Graduate Record Exam, the Praxis or any of the others. There are several in there,” Donham said.
All of the tests are free and available on the Vogel Library and Pathways Web sites under the Learning Express link.
Students can also take advantage of Learning Express’s career preparation tools. Students can put together a résumé or cover letter that they could give potential employers and then find out the proper interview skills that will help them lock-in the job that they want.
When using this service from the library Web site, students can access it on or off campus by clicking the off-campus link.
“This is one of the advantages, because students are usually really busy at school, so when they go home for breaks, they have more time to work on things such as their résumé,” Donham said.
She said this is a nice way to broaden what the library offers, and she is eager to hear feedback from students.