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- Description
- Table of Contents
- About the authors
First-year students face many challenges in adjusting to university life, including making the most of the university library. Librarians are constantly addressing student misconceptions about libraries and locating information, and have been working hard to reach first-year students and create high-impact practices in student retention.
The First-Year Experience Cookbook provides librarians with a series of innovative approaches to teaching and assessing information literacy skills during a student's first year. Featuring four chapters—Library Orientation, Library Instruction, Programs, and Assessment—and more than 60 practical, easy-to-implement recipes, this book compiles lessons and techniques for you to adapt, repurpose, and implement in your libraries.
This Cookbook is essential for all academic and school librarians looking for ideas on how to infuse the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education in their first-year courses and instruction; design and assess effective services and programs; and engage and retain students.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I. ORIENTATIONS
A. General Orientations
How Sweet it is! Making Library Orientations Palatable Again with Library Mythbusters
Chapel D. Cowden
Find Your #FlatLibrarian: Using an Instagram Photo Booth to Introduce Students to Subject-Specialist Liaison Librarians
Elizabeth Rugan Shepard
The Magnificent Library Race
Katherine O'Clair
A Spoonful of Sugar: Using Instagram and Kahoot to Sweeten Library Orientation
Elizabeth Marcus
Plateau de Fruits de Bibliothèque: A Pictorial Scavenger Hunt Appetizer for Up-Close Students (Incoming Students)
Leila June Rod-Welch
Twitterbird Cake: A Tweet-a-licious Scavenger Hunt
Amanda Kraft
Progressive Three-Course Meal for Library Orientation
Jacalyn Bryan and Elana Karshmer
B. Special Orientations
Camera Rolls: ESOL Student Library Orientation
Joy Oehlers
Making Zines: Content Creation with First-year and Transfer Students
Nick Ferreira and Mackenzie Salisbury
Cognition Connection: Student Mapping of the Library Experience
Marissa Mourer
Cooking up the Cephalonian Method for Honors Orientation
Brenda Yates Habich
In the Test Kitchen with International Students: Decoding Research Terminology, Concepts, and Tools
Kelly Cannon, Rachel Hamelers, and Jennifer Jarson
PART II. LIBRARY INSTRUCTION
A. General FYE Instruction
Bite-Sized Wikipedia Editing Assignment
Lindsay McNiff
Ruminating on Metadata: Deconstructed Database with Twitter Feed and Fluid Comparison
Jessica Denke
A Melting Pot of Fondue: Embedding a Librarian into a FYE Course
Kyrille Goldbeck DeBose
Spoiling Their Dinner: Using Candy to Incentivize Active Learning for Multiple Learning Styles
Rebecca Johnson and Edita Sicken
Plagiarism Awareness for First-Year Students
Nancy Noe
Scholars in Training: Solving the Mystery
Jenny Yap and Sonia Robles
Apple Slices: A Card-Matching Party Game about the Library
Kelly Giles, Kristen Shuyler, Andrew Evans, and Jonathan Reed
Writer: Party of Two
Amanda B. Albert
Top Secret Recipes: Internet Search Hacks Every Student Researcher Should Know
Amanda Foster
Better Ingredients. Better Papers.
Jackie AlSaffar
#Candy: Creating Categories to Introduce Search Strategies
Elise Ferer and Kayla Birt Flegal
Grilling Sources for Information: Determining which Ingredients Are Best
Heather Snapp
Google Bytes: Chowing Down on the One-Shot Information Literacy Session for First-Year Students
Carly Lamphere
A Reserved Table for First-Generation Students
Neal Baker and Jane Marie Pinzino
Database Dash
Amy Gratz
Indulging in Infographics: Research Presentations for First-Year Students
Myra Waddell
B. First Year Discipline-Based Instruction
From Prep to Delivery: Peer Instruction for First-Year Business Students
Teresa Williams
Chefs Academy: Creating a Scenario-based Activity for First-Year Engineering Students
Chris Langer
This Wine Tastes Like CRAAP!
Lee Ann Fullington
The First Taste is Always with the Eyes: Using Visual Cues to Teach Search Strategies
Christina E. Dent
From Potato Chips to Vegetables: Embedded Instruction in a General Biology Classroom
Alyson Gamble and Tammera Race
Blind Taste Test: Helping First-Year STEM Students Understand "Information Creation as a Process"
Adrienne Button Harmer, Bethany Havas, Patti Lee, and David Minchew
PART III. PROGRAMS
A. First Year Experience Programming
Ready Player, Ready Research: A Common Reader Caper
Jamie Addy
Superstition Speak Easy: A Library First-Year Experience Event
Barbara E. Eshbach
Who's the Boss? Getting Students to Understand Authority in an Academic Context
Stephanie Gamble and Sofia Leung
DIY the FYE with Zines: Two Mini Morsel Recipes
Erika Montenegro and Cynthia Mari Orozco
The Perfect Fondue: Partnering Advising and Libraries
Ashlyn H. Anderson, Donna E. Coghill, and Shajuana Isom-Payne
B. Library Programming
Cooking with the STARs (Science, Technology, and Research) Early College High School Program
Matthew Harrick
Serving Those Who Served: Outreach for Student Veterans
Nancy Fawley
Nothing Beats Home Cooking! Programming for First-Year International Students
Joi Jackson
College Bookworms: Leisure Book Clubs in Academic Libraries
Charissa Powell
Locally Sourced Materials: Primary Sources Pulled from the Archival Garden
Erin Passehl-Stoddart
Cooking on High with Early College and Dual-Enrollment Programs
Jolene Cole
Informed Leadership Fusion
Elizabeth Ponder and Emily Row Prevost
Rolling Through the Library
Judy Geczi
A Steaming Bowl of Stone Soup: Offering a Feast on a Budget
Sarah Copeland and Becca Decker
Chavez Ravine: Reshaping the City of Los Angeles
Veronica Ciocia and Thomas Philo
May I Take Your Order? Student Library Advisory Group
Beth Daniel Lindsay
Collaboration with Undergraduate Research Office to Create "Join the Research Conversation" Workshop
Elizabeth L. Black
PART IV. ASSESSMENT
A. Instructional Assessment
How Was Your Meal? Post-instruction Assessment of FY Classes
Donna E. Coghill, Jennifer A. Stout, and Rachel A. McCaskill
Infographic Pie Judging in a Science FYS
Sarah Oelker and Katherine Aidala
Whetting the Intellect with Sources: Considering the Continuum of Information Sources
Jennie E. Callas
Culinary Fusion: Integrating Information Literacy into a General Education Menu using the LEAP Toolkit
Laura Baker
Practicing Peer Review
Christina Heady and Joshua Vossler
B. First Year Experience Assessment
We All Read the Same Book: Assessing the Impact of the Common Reader
Jenny Harris and Jamie Addy
Taste Testing for Two: Using Formative and Summative Assessment
Elisa Slater Acosta and Katherine Donaldson
Setting the Table: Using Ethnographic Methods to Understand First-Year Students
Ilka Datig
Season to Taste: Using Citation Analysis and Focus Groups to Assess First-Year Student Research Papers
Ilka Datig
The Ingredients for Assessing a Personal Librarian Program for First-Year Students
Eric Resnis and Jennifer Natale
First-Year Student Ceviche: Turning Raw Ingredients into a Spicy Dish
Corrine Syster and Allyson Valentine