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Flipping a student rave into a library-sponsored event
(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 ...
Exploring Service-Learning with Dance Students
(Association of College & Research Libraries, 2020)
In 2010, the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) published The Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Report, which recommended using high-impact educational practices and assessing ...
Understanding student populations key to tailoring library instruction and outreach
(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, ...
Exploring First-Generation Student Experiences with OER Textbooks
(Association of College & Research Libraries, 2025-01)
As academic librarians engage in OER creation and adoption programs, exploring student perceptions of OER provides information that can be used to revise and improve the OER, inform faculty perceptions, and contextualize ...
Similarly different: Finding the nuances in first year students' library perceptions
(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 ...
Uncovering the information literacy skills of first-generation and provisionally admitted students
(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 ...
Basic training: A library orientation designed for student veterans
(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 ...
Exploring the library experiences of military dependents
(Elsevier, 2021-07)
College and university library programs and services for military-affiliated populations are typically aimed at student veterans and service members and not their spouses or children who are also students. However, librarians ...
First-Year and First-Gen: Assessing the Information Literacy Skills of First-Year, First-Generation College Students
(Association of College & Research Libraries, 2025-03)
As higher education continues to focus its attention on first-generation college students, academic libraries are increasingly interested in designing outreach and instruction programs to support these students, especially ...
Librarians as Teachers: Effecting Change in Composition Instruction
(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 ...