Notes from Meeting with members of SLAC (& Xin Lee & Gerald Beasley)

PSEC Instruction Attendees:  Mary Ochs, Kelee Pacion, Kelly LaVoice, Gaby Castro (Note-taker)

• 13 SLAC students attended – mix of UG and GR students
• We posed three initial questions (below) to get their reactions and feedback.

What makes library instructions effective and what doesn’t?

1. Has a librarian ever come into one of your courses? 

• 6 students had a librarian come to their class
• Experiences:
  • ALI- Chemistry Student - had 2 instances: one as lower level UG and later as upper level.  Both were helpful and geared to introduction and more advance software /database use for Chemistry students.
  • No one reported having to sit through 2 instruction session in two different courses that covered the same things.
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1. Did the librarian’s session help you with your assignment or to succeed in your course?
2. What is one thing you wished you had learned about the library early in your academic career that you didn't learn until your junior or senior year?
3. How can we make library instruction and library workshops more valuable to you?