Gearing Up for College
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Gearing Up for College Library Support for Outreach and Early Recruitment for Middle School Students Samantha Godbey, Sue Wainscott, Nancy Fawley, & Xan Goodman Lied Library, University of Nevada, Las Vegas THE STUDENTS 7 th and 8 th graders Participants in Nevada State GEAR-UP Program, a 7-year grant to help increase the likelihood of college enrollment and success for students in low- income schools 200 students from 7 middle schools in 2013-14 ETHNOGRAPHER FOR A DAY NOT A TOUR OBSERVATION OF LIBRARY SPACE AND ITS USE PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION Need for age-appropriate activity that would introduce students to the academic library experience Desire to scaffold across potential visits over multiple years Engagement with student library workers and library faculty about college and career path Active learning engagement using ethnography activity How would you use this space? What do you observe about the library on this floor? What do you observe about the people on this floor? DESIRED OUTCOMES Increase college readiness, enrollment, and success Decrease library anxiety Introduce idea of independence and freedom of university experience Intro: Draw on students’ prior experience with school and public libraries (5-10 min) Observe: Groups of 4-8 students explore two floors of the library with library guide, record observational notes (20-30 min) “He’s watching the Walking Dead!” “Will someone do my laundry?” “Is there a curfew?” “You can eat in the library?!” “All the books look old.” “Your library has more than one floor?” “The only thing that would make this place better is churros.”
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Gearing Up for College Library Support for Outreach and Early Recruitment for Middle School Students Samantha Godbey, Sue Wainscott, Nancy Fawley , & Xan Goodman Lied Library, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. “Is there a curfew?”. “Will someone do my laundry?”. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Gearing Up for CollegeLibrary Support for Outreach and Early Recruitment for Middle
School Students Samantha Godbey, Sue Wainscott, Nancy Fawley, & Xan Goodman
Lied Library, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
THE STUDENTS 7th and 8th graders Participants in Nevada State GEAR-UP
Program, a 7-year grant to help increase the likelihood of college enrollment and success for students in low-income schools
200 students from 7 middle schools in 2013-14
ETHNOGRAPHER FOR A DAYNOT A TOUR
OBSERVATION OF LIBRARY SPACE AND ITS USE
PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION
Need for age-appropriate activity that would introduce students to the academic library experience
Desire to scaffold across potential visits over multiple years
Engagement with student library workers and library faculty about college and career path
Active learning engagement using ethnography activity
How would you use this space? What do you observe about the library on this
floor? What do you observe about the people on this
floor?
DESIRED OUTCOMES Increase college readiness, enrollment, and
success Decrease library anxiety Introduce idea of independence and
freedom of university experience
Intro: Draw on students’ prior experience with school and public libraries (5-10 min)
Observe: Groups of 4-8 students explore two floors of the library with library guide, record observational notes (20-30 min)
Share: Report out, Q&A opportunity (10 min)
“He’s watching the Walking Dead!”
“Will someone do my laundry?”
“Is there a curfew?”“You can eat in
the library?!”
“All the books look old.”
“Your library has more than one floor?”
“The only thing that would make this place
better is churros.”
