Is It A Library Thing?
Helping your Orientation groups learn about Swarthmore's
library resources
Abbie Weil (she/her), Outreach Librarian
Simon Elichko (they/them), Social Sciences & Data Librarian
What we'll talk about today
- Library orientation for new students
- Is It a Library Thing game
- McCabe tours
- Popular reading and streaming
Why come to library orientation?
- Find out about important resources provided by the College
- Students often tell us they wish they'd known about library resources sooner
- Learn while playing a low-key game
- Meet library staff and Research & Information Ambassadors
- Explore campus
- Participate in Be Well Pursuit
- Help address library anxiety
- Tote bag!
Playing "Is It a Library Thing?"
Clues
We're asking new students to sign up for 1 session.
Sessions at McCabe, Cornell, and Underhill cover the same content.
Is It A Library Thing? sessions
30 minutes long
Weds, 8.27 • 3–5 pm
Thur, 8.28 • 1:30-4 pm
Fri, 8.29 • 1:30–4pm
+ optional library tours at McCabe
Weds 3, 4pm • Thu and Fri: 1, 2, 3, 4 pm
Consider pointing your students to the Underhill Library sessions, even if they're not aspiring musicians or dancers!
- Part of campus they may not explore otherwise
- Beautiful library, great study spaces, unique resources
- Meet our new Performing Arts Librarian, Liz Waltman!
Underhill Library is inside Lang Music Building
What did you read for fun this summer?
Popular Reading Room
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Fiction
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Poetry
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Popular non-fiction
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Magazines
Popular Reading
Collection at McCabe
Comics & Graphic Novels
- New Comics & Graphic Novels display (1st floor)
- Comic Books (2nd fl)
- Graphic Novels (3rd fl)
Streaming Video & Audio
Some questions for you
- Best movie or TV adaptation of a book?
- What literary character would you most like to be friends with?
- Who's your literary nemesis?
- What's a book you pretend to have read?
Swarthmore by the Book
part of The Latest from the Libraries
email aweil1 to contribute
Feel free to reach out!
Abbie Weil - aweil1@swarthmore.edu
Outreach Librarian
Simon Elichko - selichk1@swarthmore.edu
Social Sciences & Data Librarian
or email librarian@swarthmore.edu
Library orientation sign up: swarthmore.edu/liborientation