A Self-Paced Online Library Orientation: Development, Implementation, and Assessment

Schilperoort, Hannah; Chatfield, Amy; Dinalo, Jennifer; Saric, Karin; Thompson, Holly; Thompson, Annie M.

doi:10.1080/02763869.2022.2093546

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“…Students who previously would not have attended university as an online or distance learner would now be required to do so, whether as part of starting, progressing, or completing their studies, during a time when few institutions were prepared to offer a fully immersive online learning experience. While we know that libraries updated their own orientation programming (Kretz et al, 2021;Schilperoort et al, 2022) what remains less clear is the degree to which libraries were involved in campuswide online orientation programs that emerged because of the pandemic. A cursory scan of institutional websites revealed that online orientation was the norm in North America in 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 in keeping with the wider trend of online-only teaching and learning that stemmed from pandemic-related shutdowns.…”

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Piloting a Library-Led Online Academic Skills Orientation Program

McMillan,

Fonstad,

St-Jacques

2023

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In August 2021, we piloted an online academic skills orientation program for incoming undergraduate and graduate students. The program featured a range of synchronous online sessions that provided students an opportunity to learn from librarians, learning specialists, peer mentors, professors, academic advisors and other campus partners during presentations, panels and Q&As. The program was attended by 548 unique students with overall workshop attendance totaling 1310 over a four-day period. Due to the success of the 2021 pilot, we ran another iteration of the program in August 2022, which included both online and in-person elements. The three-day online program was attended by 309 unique students with overall workshop attendance totaling 1084 while the one day in-person program was attended by 37 students. Approximately 8% and 20% of program attendees completed program surveys in 2021 and 2022 respectively. While the low response rates make it difficult to generalize about the data, feedback overall was positive, with most respondents indicating that they found the experience to be valuable. We conclude by encouraging other libraries to consider the role that they play in familiarizing students with university supports and services and to take a leading role if such programming is not currently in place at their institution.

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confidence: 99%