An interview with Kula Director Matt Huculak was featured in Eurekalert this week. Huculak talks about the hopes in founding the Kula: Library Futures Academy on research at the University of Victoria, including the student experience:
Q: What are your hopes for the long-term impact of Kula on student learning and community engagement?
Huculak: The entire reason the university exists is for students: the university is an agreement the past has with the present. A part of learning is also understanding what is important to us as individuals and then feeling like you have the strength of knowledge to become the person you want to be in the world. I hope that Kula’s projects connect students with librarians and with other researchers across campus, so they can experience the university in new, meaningful ways. That’s my hope: that it enriches the student experience, so that they understand the infrastructures that make knowledge possible at the university and beyond.
Read the full interview at: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1108762
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