Welcome

RIAs!

Research & Information Ambassadors Training 2025

Abbie Weil (she/her), Outreach Librarian

Simon Elichko (they/them), Social Sciences & Data Librarian

Share:

• Name
• Class year
• Pronouns (if you want)
• Hometown (however you define it)
• How do you feel about your dorm room this year?

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image credit: adrian boliston via wikimedia commons

Getting to know each other

What's something you enjoyed recently?

(a song, a book, a meal, etc.)

What are you studying?

• Your major(s)/minor(s)

• What interests you most about them?

Overview

• Mon-Tue:  RIAs Training
• Weds-Fri:  Pop-Up Exhibit and Library Orientation

Our Schedule

Highlights

• FLI-POP visit
  • Today 1:30-2:30 pm  (set up at 1!)
  • Zines, literary mad libs, shelf tags (student book picks)
  • Opportunity to lead tours
• Library orientation practice
  • Today, just us
  • Tomorrow, 2 sessions with staff co-facilitators
• Pop-up exhibit
  • Wednesday morning planning meeting and work session
• Orientation support
  • Before sessions, work on set up and prepping materials
  • When you're not facilitating, we still need your help!

💵 Paid Time!

Reminder, this is paid training!  :)

Add all training time to your timesheets.

These count as paid time, keep track!

• Time spent on homework
• Preparing the pop-up exhibit
• Meetings
• Library orientation

Timesheets

Submit your timesheets in MySwarthmore by 10am on the Monday they're due.

First timesheet deadline: 9/1

 

Save these dates: Bi-Weekly Timesheet Deadlines, 2025

Next up:

McCabe Tour

Goals

Meet library staff members

See a range of public and staff spaces

Get ideas for your own tours

Next up:

Bon appétit!

Be back promptly by 1:00 pm -- thank you!

After lunch:

We'll meet in LibLab, then go set up the FLI-POP session in the Honors Reserves area (2nd floor study lounge).
 

FLI-POP session starts at 1:30pm.

Let's make sure we're ready a few minutes early!

Library Orientation

Homework for tonight:

Read the full script for Is It A Library Thing

(linked in RIAs schedule)

Key links:

bit.ly/librarything25

Intro to Library Orientation

Tonight + optional

FLI-POP BBQ

6-8pm • Roberts Grill Area

Tomorrow

Meet here in LibLab at 9:00 am

for Exhibitions and Special Collections

Welcome

back!

Research & Information Ambassadors Training 2025
Day Two

Exhibitions &

Special Collections

Susan Dreher

Visual Initiatives & Exhibitions Librarian

Celia Caust-Ellenbogen

Associate Curator, Friends Historical Library

Laura Melbourne

Public Services Archivist, Peace Collection

Set up for

Library Orientation

Training

Library Orientation Training

Schedule, script, other links:

bit.ly/librarything25

Intro to Library Orientation

Introductions

Name, Pronouns (if you want),

Your role at the library,

Class year or # years at Swat,

A desert island book or record

Library Orientation Training

Mostly the same, just a few changes!
 

• Clues
  • William Penn's hair --> Benjamin Franklin's hair
  • Removed clue: Midnight Snacks
  • New clue: Silence
    • Silence: only when you want it!
    • You can find the noise level you want in the libraries
    • McCabe, Cornell, and Underhill stay open until 1 am on weeknights
  • Binoculars & Drums
    • This has been moved to the last clue - end on a positive note!
       
• Slides
  • Call number
    • Added LC subjects graphic to call number slide
  • Benjamin Franklin's hair
    • Added image of letter from Gandhi to Jane Adams

Next up:

Bon appétit!

Meet at 1:00 pm at

Underhill Music & Dance Library

After lunch:

Underhill Library visit

Work on your Library Tours

Library Orientation Training

Work on

Your Library Tours

+ take some photos

break time

How are you feeling about
co-facilitating library orientation?

What questions do you have?

Homework for tonight:

Read back issues of the library newsletter,
Latest from the Libraries (linked in RIAs schedule)

Tomorrow

Meet in the McCabe Pop-Up Exhibit area, 9 am

Check in about exhibit, 11:30 am

Orientation prep + newsletter discussion, 1 pm