Library Methods and Materials 101

Experiences the first year on campus vary for each student. The Library Methods and Materials Seminar is designed to help introduce the library and encourage the use of it and its resources. This seminar is formally offered to all first year students as an opportunity to start learning about what is avaialble and to encourage the understanding of what research provides and how to do it well.

Fall 2006's Library Methods and Materials Seminar was offered on September 14, 2006

Students attending where asked to consider the library in respect to how it relates to their work in the studios and classrooms. That when using the library their work would be similar to the work in the studios in that there are methods and materials to learn for the library. Also that their library research could follow similar and creative paths, that what they discovered in the library could play and interactive role in their class and studio assignments.

The lesson objectives that day were for each student to start to understand:

• the layout of the library and basic locations of resources
• their responsibilities as students using the library AND finally …
• to come away with the idea that the library will play both a creative and educational role in their time as a student at our college.

Further students were asked to engage in exploring the library. Lesson handouts were provided. For copies please stop by my office.

The next Library Methods and Materials 101 seminar will be offer during the Spring 2007 semester. -- Loree Bourgoin, Librarian.