Session Description:
Incoming students often leave their library orientation session overwhelmed and overstressed, but this does not need to be the case. Visual literacy and visual culture can be leveraged to engage students and improve library orientation sessions. Students enrolled in select sections of the First Year Experience (FYE) courses at 2 public universities engaged in an alternate approach to library orientation, which made use of hands-on learning and peer teaching, as well as visual literacy. This session will discuss the activitys structure, theoretical basis, and assessment, and the importance of addressing the social and emotional dimensions of learning in library instruction.
