Planning Academic Library Orientations

Kylie Bailin has worked as the Director of Outreach & Access Services at Lafayette College since 2014. Previously she worked as a Research, Instruction & Outreach Librarian at Lafayette College and as Outreach Team Leader of the Science, Engineering & Medicine Unit at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. In all of these roles, she has participated in or planned new student orientations for both large and small audiences. She received her MLIM from Charles Sturt University Benjamin Jahre is a Research & Instruction Librarian at Lafayette College, where he teaches information literacy and is the electronic resources coordinator. His main research interest is the intersection of public services and e-resources, including Open Educational Resources. He received his MSLS from UNC-Chapel Hill. Sarah Morris is a Humanities Research and Digital Instruction Librarian at UNC-Chapel Hill. Previously she worked as a Research and Instruction Librarian at Lafayette College. In addition to partnering in outreach initiatives, she is interested in engaging undergraduates in original research, traditional and digital, and loves finding ways to get students in the library. She received her MSLS from UNC Chapel-Hill.

• Games1. Hole in One: Library Services on the Green2. Passing Go: Utilizing Gamification to Introduce New Students to the Libraries3. Breakout the Library: Using Escape Room Concepts to Teach and Assess the First Year Library Orientation Experience4. New tactics for orientation: using gamification to connect and engage students5. Play Day at UTS library: engaging students with fun and serious play6. Orientation as Exploration: Video Game Training Modules as a Model for Learning by Discovery7. Connecting New Freshmen with the Library: People, Places & Problem SolvingMarketing & Promotion8. Supporting student retention and success: Personal Librarian Program at the University of Victoria9. Welcome to the Library: Building a Social Orientation Campaign10. Building Community through Festival: Library Orientation on the QuadPartnerships11. Collaboration on a Grand Scale: Creating a high-impact educational orientation experience through campus and library partnerships12. Building Partnerships for Better Library Orientations13. Teaching library and legal research skills to first year law students: the role of library tours and exercises14. The Big Red Ruckus @ Love – From Co-operation to CollaborationTargeting Specific Audiences15. Library Orientations for Resident Assistants16. Marhaba, Welcome: Orienting International Students to the Academic Library17. Passport to Discovery: A Library Adventure18. Designing a library orientation for first year students with disabilities through the STEPS program19. Self-Designed Orientations by International Graduate Students20. “The library is very huge and beautiful”: A Library Orientation for English Language Learners21. Be All That You Can Be: Targeting Library Orientations to Student Cadets22. Introducing New International Students to Privilege in Information AccessTechnology23. Creating a Library Orientation Video for Distance, Regional and Online Students24. Creating and Sustaining Library Video Tours25. Coming to a Screen Near You: Broadcasting Library Orientations26. Interactive eLearning: Designing the Immersive Course-Integrated Online Library OrientationTours27. Adding Addie To The Library Orientation Programme For Freshmen At Singapore Management University Libraries28. The Evolution of EKU Libraries Orientations: Giving Students a LibStart to Student Success through Library Engagement29. #FreshStart: Library Orientation @A Caribbean Academic Library30. Hunger to Change the Game: Using Assessment to Continually Evolve a Library Orientation31. 200 students in 20 minutes: Freshman Orientation Tours32. Passport to Academic Success: An Engaging, Active-Learning Library Orientation for New Students33. Library Boot Camp: Scalable Basic Training for New Library Users34. Pecha Kucha It: Everything you need to know about the library in six minutes and forty seconds