How can I use the required library orientation to complement what I’m doing in class?
Instructors take a number of approaches to the orientation. Most find that the library orientation is most successful when tied to work the students are doing for an assignment. Instructors may contact the librarian in advance with a request that the students do a “scavenger hunt” or begin compiling sources for a presentation or an annotated bibliography. What is most important, though, is that we see the library contact as an extension of the kind of discovery, examination, and synthesis that is present in all of the work in the Freshman English courses.
