Library anxiety is unfortunately alive and well at universities. In response, each year, New York University's undergraduate librarians and administrators from the College of Arts & Sciences' Cohort Program revise the library component of their first-year experience program. This presentation will feature perspectives and insight into how two librarians and the director of the Cohort Program worked together to create a session that employed visual literacy, assessment, and active learning to maximize student engagement while acclimating them to library resources and reducing library anxiety. This presentation will engage with participants as we discuss various points of collaboration, the development of one of our key activities using visual literacy, our assessments and engagement activities, and the future of this library session.
Participants will be able to:
- Synthesize multiple streams of assessment to inform the iterative process of developing a first-year experience library session.
- Identify strategies for collaborating with internal library and external campus stakeholders to optimize a first-year experience library session.
- Design activities to maximize student engagement and alleviate student anxiety regarding library resources and academic integrity.
