Be Our Guest: Engaging Graduate Students through Specialized Outreach Events
Abstract
In an effort to reach out to graduate students at a large research university, the Performance Studies Librarian and the Graduate Studies Librarian at Texas A&M University Libraries partnered to develop the pilot study, Dinner with Your Librarian program, wherein those librarians took a number of graduate students out to dinner. The primary goals of this program were to establish a rapport with the students and to assess their current knowledge of resources in the library. Additionally, the librarians wanted to forge a connection with the graduate advisors in order to encourage future collaborations between the graduate students and their liaison librarians.
Subject
OutreachGraduate Students
Librarians
Academic
Surveys
Dinner
Qualitative Studies
Subject Liaison
Specialized Events