Leveraging Visual Literacy to Engage and Orient First-Year College Students in the Library

Melissa Clark

Leveraging Visual Literacy to Engage and Orient First-Year College Students in the Library

Ralph W. Steen Library

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Abstract

Too often incoming students leave library orientation sessions feeling overwhelmed and overstressed, which results in the library becoming one more intimidating obstacle to them. However, this does not need to be the case. Visual literacy and visual culture can be leveraged to engage students and improve library orientation sessions.

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State	Published - Mar 7 2019

Publication series

Name	Librarian and Staff Presentations

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Leveraging Visual Literacy to Engage and Orient First-Year Colleg

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