Browsing by Author "Graves, Stephanie J."
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LeMire, Sarah; Graves, Stephanie J.; Buckner, Sean; Freeman, Donald D.; Smith, Gerald L. (Elsevier, 2020-07)Colleges and universities across the country have been developing robust programs and services to support student veterans, including veteran-specific orientations. The Texas A&M University Libraries received a grant from ...
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LeMire, Sarah; Graves, Stephanie J.; Medlin, Zackary Chance (Chandos Publishing, 2018)At Texas A&M University, the Corps of Cadets is the largest and oldest student organization on campus. Each summer, nearly 1,000 freshman recruits participate in the Corps' Freshman Orientation Week (FOW), a military-style ...
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Hoppenfeld, Jared; Graves, Stephanie J.; Sewell, Robin R.; Halling, T. Derek (Taylor & Francis, 2019-06-04)Sedentary behavior has increased over the last several decades, and this has led to major life-threatening health issues. Texas A&M University Libraries has introduced an innovative idea in three of their buildings. This ...
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Graves, Stephanie J.; LeMire, Sarah; Anders, Kathy Christie; DiCaglio, Sara (Library Assessment Conference, 2018)As universities seek to improve retention and graduation rates, more attention is being paid to populations that are statistically less likely to persist, such as first-generation students. Engaging with a campus-wide ...
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Graves, Stephanie J.; LeMire, Sarah (Association of College & Research Libraries, 2020)Library pranks, raves, and flash mobs have become increasingly popular in academic libraries. This recipe provides step-by-step instructions on how our library turned this unofficial library rave into a collaborative ...
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LeMire, Sarah; Graves, Stephanie J.; Hawkins, Michael; Kailani, Shweta (Taylor & Francis, 2018)Orienting patrons to library spaces, collections, and services is an important, but time-intensive, challenge for many librarians. Library tours are one strategy commonly employed to familiarize patrons with library spaces ...
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LeMire, Sarah; Graves, Stephanie J.; Anders, Kathy Christie (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023-04)This study assessed student research papers using a rubric to determine the information literacy skills of students in introductory composition classes. Librarians taught a pilot composition course that infused information ...
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Graves, Stephanie J.; Anders, Kathy Christie; Balester, Valerie (Reference Services Review, 2017)● Purpose ○ Collaborations between writing centers and libraries create opportunities for providing information literacy intervention for students doing researched writing. This case study gathered data from writing ...
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LeMire, Sarah; Graves, Stephanie J.; Buckner, Sean; Hawkins, Michael; Freeman, Donald; Smith, Gerald (American Library Association, 2018-06-24)Student veterans and military service members are a unique population on college and university campuses. They are non-traditional students and often transfer students who can feel isolated among a large population of ...
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Graves, Stephanie J.; LeMire, Sarah (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2016)One of the benefits of a discovery layer is the large number and variety of results. In order to search effectively, students must learn to narrow down those results in a meaningful way. This activity helps students tap ...
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LeMire, Sarah; Graves, Stephanie J.; Bankston, Sarah; Wilhelm, Jennifer (Elsevier, 2021-07)Information literacy efforts in academic libraries commonly target first-year students as a way to ensure that students learn foundational research skills at the beginning of their college experience. However, little has ...
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LeMire, Sarah; Graves, Stephanie J.; Farrell, Shannon L.; Mastel, Kristen L. (Association of Research Libraries, 2018-11)Library outreach is experiencing a renaissance. Librarians have been reaching out to their communities and developing programming for decades, but libraries are increasingly being asked to demonstrate their value to the ...
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Medlin, Zackary Chance; Graves, Stephanie J.; LeMire, Sarah (Association of College and Research Libraries, 2018)The labor and expense involved in developing a comprehensive outreach program can be overwhelming. There are often additional expenditures for marketing and promotional items to support the outreach events that go beyond ...
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Uncovering the information literacy skills of first-generation and provisionally admitted students Graves, Stephanie J.; LeMire, Sarah; Anders, Kathy Christie (Elsevier, 2021-01)Librarians have experimented with a variety of instructional models, from one-shots to tutorials to semester-long information literacy courses, to increase the impact of information literacy instruction. This study assessed ...
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LeMire, Sarah; Graves, Stephanie J.; Bankston, Sarah; Wilhelm, Jennifer (Elsevier Connect, 2021-05-24)Librarians commonly work with students who are grouped in a variety of ways, such as by course and by major. Another typical way that universities, and libraries, distinguish student groups is by class year. Increasingly, ...
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Anders, Kathy Christie; German, Elizabeth M.; Graves, Stephanie J. (Practical Academic Librarianship: The International Journal of the SLA Academic Division, 2016-12-16)Student volunteers can be a valuable resource for library outreach programs. This article details how our academic library leveraged several registered student organizations (RSOs) to create our freshman orientation video ...