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- About the authors
Tailor your institution’s approach to transfer students using this collection’s creative ideas for orientations, library instruction, partnerships with like-minded campus groups, and other initiatives.
Higher ed admission teams are aggressively recruiting transfers—and they’re finding success. According to the National Student Clearinghouse, about 38 percent of all students in higher ed in the United States have transferred at least once. If you don’t include transfer students in your outreach and instruction planning, you’re missing a significant portion of the student body. However, to meet the needs of this population requires academic libraries to rethink assumptions about incoming students. Gathering 17 case studies, the editors present a rich and nuanced picture of academic library services to transfer students that will empower you to achieve transfer student success. You will learn about
- organizing around the strengths of transfer students;
- applying design thinking to ease transfer students’ “culture shock”;
- using autoethnography narratives to better understand the transfer student experience;
- revamping a transfer student success course by incorporating student reflections;
- building a campus network of transfer student support and information sharing;
- partnering with military and veteran support groups on campus;
- recruiting transfer students to a campus peer mentor program;
- serving students in health sciences bridge programs;
- building connections with a fiction book club; and
- creating personal librarian programs or librarian positions dedicated to transfer students.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Literature Review: Library Services to Transfer Students: Samantha Kannegiser, Julie M. Still
Part I Welcome to the University: Orientation and Outreach Efforts for New Transfer Students
Chapter 1 Developing Transfer Student Programming: From Research to Application
Linda Whang, Amanda Hornby, and Emilie Vrbancic
Chapter 2 Peer Mentoring and Transfer Student Outreach in the Libraries
Annie Dempsey
Chapter 3 Getting a Return on Your Investment: Librarians and Transfer Students
Kelly C. McCallister, Kelly C. Rhodes, and Margaret N. Gregor
Chapter 4 Evolving for Success: Transfer Student Services
Anne Pemberton and Tammy Ivins
Chapter 5 Virtual Outreach to Transfer Students at an Urban Institution
Matthew Harrick
Chapter 6 Designing and Developing a Personal Librarian Program for Transfer Students
Lara Fountaine and Shelby Hallman
Chapter 7 How to Build a Successful Personal Librarian Program for Transfer Students
Kristina Clement
Part II Engagement beyond the Classroom: Cocurricular Efforts to Engage with Transfer Students
Chapter 8 Peer Reference to Help Transfer Students Make the Transition
Lydia Copeland Gwyn
Chapter 9 Using Collaborative Autoethnography to Explore the Transfer Student Experience
Donna Harp Ziegenfuss and Kayaunna Swartzmiller
Chapter 10 A Fiction Book Club and the Transfer Experience
Alaina C. Bull and Johanna Jacobsen Kiciman
Chapter 11 New Initiatives, New Collaborations: “Breaking into the Box” to Support Transfer Student Transition
Linda M. Krzykowski and Trudi E. Jacobson
Chapter 12 Enhancing the Transfer Student Experience through Campus Connections
Alexander Deeke and Jesus Espinoza
Part III Building on Transfer Capital: Instruction, Information Literacy, and Research Efforts to Support Student Success
Chapter 13 Measuring the Transfer Experience: Assessing and Improving Information Literacy Skills for Transfer Students and First-year Registrants
Sarah P. C. Dahlen and Jeff D. Corrigan
Chapter14 Assisting Nontraditional Health Sciences Students in Bridge Programs
Elizabeth O. Moreton and Karen S. Grigg
Chapter 15 Empowering Transfer Student Scholars Using Metacognitive Reflection
Matthew Atherton and Allison Carr
Chapter 16 Online Library Research Refresher Activities for Third-Year Transfer Students
Nia Lam and Chelsea Nesvig
Chapter 17 Upper-Level-Only Institution Library Services and Instruction
Margaret Dawson
Appendixes
- Appendix A Email Message Examples (Chapter 6, North Carolina State University)
- Appendix B Library Ambassador Pre-, Post-, and Midassessment (Chapter 8, East Tennessee State University)
- Appendix C Information Literacy VALUE Rubric (Chapter 13, California State University, Monterey Bay)
- Appendix D BIS 300 Library Research Refresher: Campus Library Resources (Chapter 16, University of Washington Bothell and Cascadia College Campus Library)
- Appendix E BIS 300 Library Research Refresher: Boolean Search Strategies (Chapter 16, University of Washington Bothell and Cascadia College Campus Library)
About the Editors and Contributors
Index