LOEX 2024

Libraries can showcase their campus value through collaborations with individual departments & faculty but even more so with a first-year curricular program. This presentation describes and explains how library faculty collaborated, designed, implemented, and assessed a program to introduce & teach all the first-year students about the library’s resources, spaces, and expertise in information literacy. The presenters will share their experiences in this unique program, what they learned from its implementation, the relationships they built across campus, and how they plan to adapt it for future cohorts of students.

Carrie Dunham-LaGree, Drake University, co-created this presentation.

Participants will:
1. Learn how to design, implement, & assess a program to teach first-year students about their campus library
2. Examine areas within their libraries’ curriculum/outreach for development of a larger campus program
3. Identify potential campus partners to collaborate with on first-year programs