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Orienting student veterans to the library: Piloting a new model of library orientation
(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 ...
Strategy, intentionality, and impact: A purchasing plan for library promotional swag
(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 ...
SPEC Kit 361: Outreach and Engagement
(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 ...
Be all that you can be: Targeting library orientations to military cadets
(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 ...
Libr-AR-y Tours: Increasing Engagement and Scalability of Library Tours Using Augmented Reality
(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 ...
First Generation Success: Mixed-Methods Information Literacy Skills Assessment for First Year Writing Students
(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 ...