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.
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.
Academic librarians describe exercises by which librarians can teach and assess information literacy skills among first-year college students and help them become familiar with the library. In a cookbook format with exercises in the form of recipes, they cover general and special orientations, general first-year experience instruction, first-year discipline-based instruction, first-year experience programming, library programming, instructional assessment, and first-year experience assessment. Among the topics are a progressive three-course meal for library orientation, a melting pot of fondue: embedding a librarian into a first-year experience course, writer: party of two, the first taste is always with the eyes: using visual cues to teach search strategies, college bookworms: leisure book clubs in academic libraries, and practicing peer review. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
