Welcome to the Learning Resources Division. The LRD
fosters an invitational environment which enhances and supports teaching and
learning through:
- information literacy
- developmental education
- educational technologies
- service-learning
The Learning Resources Division includes:
Academic Learning Center
The ALC provides adequate access to up-to-date computing
resources; individualized instruction to promote retention and assist
students in meeting demands of college work level; and provides comfortable, secure,
accessible and affordable testing for AB Tech students and the community.
Developmental Studies
The Developmental Studies department provides
students with expanded opportunities for college success, increases
retention in Developmental Education and subsequent courses, provides a
faculty cohort for competent developmental instruction, and develops self
actualized learners.
Developmental Studies also includes Academic Related (ACA)
instruction. In an ACA class, students can learn about our campus, about college success skills, and about how to develop plans for achieving
individual goals.
Educational Technology Services
ETS recruits and retains staff with specialized skills to
support faculty, staff, and student's needs and expectations. ETS also provides
prompt response to service demands and makes available appropriate and
accessible instructional technologies.
ETS staff are here to instruct faculty and staff in the use
of new technology, in the production of audio and video works, and in the
maintenance of the technology used in the classroom.
Holly Library
The Holly Library provides a program of information
literacy across the curriculum that teaches students how to access,
evaluate, and use information in the classroom and throughout their lives.
The Holly Library also develops collections to reflect a diverse college
community and provides an invitational environment that stimulates the
learning process.
The Holly Library has an open student computer lab, research
and email computers, laptops for in-library use, quiet study areas, and
group study rooms. In addition to book and magazine collections, the
library has a large media collection including feature films on DVD and
audio books. There is comfortable seating and wireless access throughout
the building and friendly staff to help.
Service Learning
The Service-Learning center assists teachers and students
in finding meaningful service projects with over 100 agencies and schools in
the community. Students reflect on their experience as a component of their
class.
Quote of the week:
"...select the
profession you love, work hard with enthusiasm, [and] observe and love
Mother Nature"
Angeles Alvariño, Marine Biologist (1916-2005)
Angeles Alvariño was born October 3, 1916 in El Ferrol, Spain. She is
responsible for uncovering over 22 new species of marine zooplankton and
marine organisms and has written over 100 scientific books and journal
articles. At an early age, Alvariño declared to her father that she wanted
to be a physician like him. But her father discouraged her, telling her
that she would have to experience the fact of working with terminally ill
patients. This did not deter the young Alvariño from pursuing her dream.
She began her studies in Madrid but in 1936, they were interrupted by the
Spanish Civil War. In 1939, she resumed her studies. She married a naval
captain and Knight of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Hemenegild and
later gave birth to a daughter. Alvariño completed her Master’s degree in
Natural Sciences in 1941at the University of Madrid and proceeded to teach
biology, zoology, botany, and geology for the next several years. She
continued her studies and graduated with a doctorate in chemistry in 1951.
In 1952 Alvariño won the position as marine biologist and oceanographer at
the Spanish Institute of Oceanography. She received two fellowships to
study zooplankton, which led her to the United States, where she received a
doctorate in science for the research and work she did there. She became a
U.S. Citizen in 1966. In 1970 Alvariño joined the South West Fisheries
Science Center (SWFSC) as a fishery research biologist. Over the next
several years, she taught biology at several universities and acquired
several professorships. Alvariño officially retired in 1987. She died
at the age of 89 in
2005, of a rare cancer of the soft muscle tissues. Alvariño dedicated her
last years to researching Spanish explorers and navigators who had mapped
the seas and their currents. She was working on a second edition of this
historical work but was unable to complete it before her death.
Happy Fall Semester!
