One surefire way to destroy new college students' relationship with the library, before it even begins to form, is to lecture to them for 50 minutes in a required library orientation class session. I was on a team of four teaching librarians (Renfro Library, Mars…
This is a research guide I created for a History course's research project, where each student chose a historically important album from the 1960s (or early 1970s) to explore. My limitations here were severe: (1) Use only MS Word, (2) use only Calibri font, (3)…
As an academic librarian, the most heartbreaking thing bar none that I witnessed was when students had not saved their work in many minutes or hours, and a computer crash or battery failure nuked their work. This was a huge problem with our laptops and…