This Library Orientation is Fun!: Building a Successful Virtual Tour Experience for Students

摘要

The IMC Virtual Tour has been in use for five semesters as of Spring 2013. Students continue to respond to it favorably. The success of this project was due in large part to the collaboration between the IMC Coordinator, the E-Learning and Digital Initiatives Librarian, two professors from the College of Education, and input from education majors. The time spent at the beginning of the project articulating learning objectives, thinking through the steps of the tour from the user's perspective, designing the technical aspects of the tour, and creating an assessment instrument based on the learning objectives were crucial to the project's success. We viewed this tour as the basis of the IMC s information literacy instruction program, so we were careful to limit the information covered. In subsequent library instruction, more sophisticated information literacy and research skills are introduced.