
Planning Academic Library Orientations
Case Studies from Around the World
Description
Key Features
- Gives guidance on best practices for academic library orientations
- Gathers examples from around the world to provide international perspective
- Empowers librarians to take aim at the anxiety felt by new and first year students
- Presents effective ways of introducing students to what a college/university library is, what it contains, and where to find information, while also showing how helpful librarians can be
Readership
Academic librarians, librarians charged with planning first year orientations, library leaders, graduate students and researchers in LIS
Table of Contents
Games
1. Hole in One: Library Services on the Green
2. Passing Go: Utilizing Gamification to Introduce New Students to the Libraries
3. Breakout the Library: Using Escape Room Concepts to Teach and Assess the First Year Library Orientation Experience
4. New tactics for orientation: using gamification to connect and engage students
5. Play Day at UTS library: engaging students with fun and serious play
6. Orientation as Exploration: Video Game Training Modules as a Model for Learning by Discovery
7. Connecting New Freshmen with the Library: People, Places & Problem SolvingMarketing & Promotion
8. Supporting student retention and success: Personal Librarian Program at the University of Victoria
9. Welcome to the Library: Building a Social Orientation Campaign
10. Building Community through Festival: Library Orientation on the QuadPartnerships
11. Collaboration on a Grand Scale: Creating a high-impact educational orientation experience through campus and library partnerships
12. Building Partnerships for Better Library Orientations
13. Teaching library and legal research skills to first year law students: the role of library tours and exercises
14. The Big Red Ruckus @ Love – From Co-operation to CollaborationTargeting Specific Audiences
15. Library Orientations for Resident Assistants
16. Marhaba, Welcome: Orienting International Students to the Academic Library
17. Passport to Discovery: A Library Adventure
18. Designing a library orientation for first year students with disabilities through the STEPS program
19. Self-Designed Orientations by International Graduate Students
20. “The library is very huge and beautiful”: A Library Orientation for English Language Learners
21. Be All That You Can Be: Targeting Library Orientations to Student Cadets
22. Introducing New International Students to Privilege in Information AccessTechnology
23. Creating a Library Orientation Video for Distance, Regional and Online Students
24. Creating and Sustaining Library Video Tours
25. Coming to a Screen Near You: Broadcasting Library Orientations
26. Interactive eLearning: Designing the Immersive Course-Integrated Online Library OrientationTours
27. Adding Addie To The Library Orientation Programme For Freshmen At Singapore Management University Libraries
28. The Evolution of EKU Libraries Orientations: Giving Students a LibStart to Student Success through Library Engagement
29. #FreshStart: Library Orientation @A Caribbean Academic Library
30. Hunger to Change the Game: Using Assessment to Continually Evolve a Library Orientation
31. 200 students in 20 minutes: Freshman Orientation Tours
32. Passport to Academic Success: An Engaging, Active-Learning Library Orientation for New Students
33. Library Boot Camp: Scalable Basic Training for New Library Users
34. Pecha Kucha It: Everything you need to know about the library in six minutes and forty seconds
Product details
- No. of pages: 380
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Chandos Publishing 2018
- Published: June 26, 2018
- Imprint: Chandos Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780081021712
- eBook ISBN: 9780081021736
About the Editors
Kylie Bailin

Affiliations and Expertise
Benjamin Jahre

Affiliations and Expertise
Sarah Morris

Affiliations and Expertise
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